Experience

LAMP Programmer

MagazineDiscountCenter.com April 2012 - Present

A full MVC rebuild of this popular and successful magazine subscription site. Chris used the CodeIgniter framework, and customized the core so that it could serve multiple sites from a single core. Features include: customized search engine with "smart search", campaign manager, gift cards, banners and badges, shopping cart, full reporting capabilities, PCI-DSS compliance, affiliate management, daily deals, tracking pixels, template editor, Google Analytics API integration, API integration with data provider, advanced CSV parsing /cleaning / data integration, unit testing, and more!

LAMP Programmer

HomeExchange.com August 2011 - Jan 2012

Chris created a facebook-like Personal Messaging System for HomeExchange.com, a popular site for match-making home owners in different countries, in several languages. Other jobs include a Timezone calculator / converter, memcache class, articles page, resources page, landing pages, discount codes, repairing paypal and Authorize.net code. All features have admin page editing tools. The website is fully internationalized. Environment is mixed custom OOP/MVC-ish and procedural.

LAMP Programmer

Metropolist.com February 2008 - April 2012

This is a restaurant recommendation site, due for release early 2012. Built on Chris' open-source FWMagic MVC Framework, it has a full Facebook authorization & posting system, uses the Facebook Graph API. Integrated with Twitter. There is a mobile website too, built as a parallel MVC application layer. Fully object-oriented LAMP, using jquery for a smooth UX experience.

LAMP Programmer

JoeShopping.com September 2007 - June 2010

A social networking site that is also an affiliate "click-through" shopping site. Has a CSV parser to handle thousands of CSV text files > 2GB in size (these industry files are error-filled, so there are a lot of heuristics and fallback functions!). The db is a vertically and horizontally partitioned relational SQL database with > 10MM records. There is an AJAX administration section that allows workers to categorize products and to match categories, it also integrates with Amazon Turk for this purpose. Custom multi-level categorization system, with recursive maintenance routines. Custom multi-category bayesian categorizer, trained with feedback from human workers.

LAMP Programmer

UltimateCoupons.com January 2008 - October 2008

(Same clients as JoeShopping.com) This PHP database driven website helps online shoppers save money using free coupons and coupon codes, sales and special deals, comparison shopping, and other methods. Was originally written in coldfusion, Chris totally rebuilt it in Symfony MVC framework. He reverse engineered an undocumented "data mining" database (it was a multi-level associative graph structure)!.

LAMP Programmer

PositiveFriends.com December 2007 - February 2008

Total rebuild of social website, using 100% PHP5 MVC framework, symfony.

2003 - 2006

LAMP Programmer, Server Admin 2006 - Present

From 2006 until present, Chris emerged as a LAMP specialist, with specialty in complex database-driven web projects. His project management skills have grown, as has his coding expertise. PHP5 is the language of choice, especially when used in conjunction with MVC frameworks, such as Symfony, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter, etc. He hires employees for basic coding tasks, allowing him to focus on the more challenging tasks, and thus streamline the production process. Customer satisfaction is now his main business goal, more so than before. He also began hosting his clients' websites (on reliable Linux, of course!), using a custom designed distributed backup system, with load balancing and automatic DNS failover, which allows for nearly perfect 100% uptime!

LAMP Programmer, Server Admin 2005 - 2006

For 2005 and 2006, Chris has worked full-time on contract application programming jobs for USA and UK customers, by the hour or by the project. Most programming has been in SQL, object-oriented PHP or perl/cgi, Javascript, AJAX, and Unix shell scripting, on the LAMP platform. For example, he wrote some perl & php web spiders, rebuilt overgrown content management systems, set up credit card processing, wrote an RSS parser, published an SMTP bounce handler class, redesigned and implemented a distributed SEO/Adwords application, etc. He also remotely maintained web servers and mail servers (both Unix deriviatives and Windows), and developed custom anti-spam / anti-virus setups for several small businesses. He briefly studied Ruby On Rails, then rejected it in favour of PHP MVC.

Anti-spam Specialist 2003 - 2004

In 2003 and 2004, Chris sought and obtained financing to work full-time on anti-spam research and development, using open-source software on Linux/Unix operating systems. He successfully created and marketed an independant POP-forward mail filter http://spamEater.com Chris was nominated for the "Innovator of the Year" award at the 2004 Kootenay Associaton of Science and Technology "Spirit of Innovation Awards", for his work with anti-spam research. You can read an interview here (summarizing his thoughts on anti-spam): https://spameater.com/anti-spam-man.com/interview.html Since January 2000, Chris studied PERL/CGI and PHP programming and developed several database driven websites. He is competent with SQL and relational database design in MySQL and Oracle. Although partial to UNIX, he is familiar with Microsoft ASP, VBScript, MS-SQL

HTML, Perl, PC Support Person 1996 - 2000

In this period, Chris learned how to program in HTML, javascript, Perl/CGI, CSV, Excel, BASIC, DOS, and Windows 95/98/NT configuration. He built and repaired PC computers and local networks. He built several websites, and cut his teeth on beginner programming jobs in perl, ASP, js, php.

Education

Selkirk College 1999 - 2002

Diploma and Work Study

Computer Information Systems (with Honours) Selkirk College, Castlegar, BC Canada 2002

Work study in Nelson and Thailand, building websites, repairing PCs & networks, SEO.