Senior Software Engineer

• Mar 2023 - Present

Full Stack Web Developer

• Sep 2011 - Present

• Full stack developer, working on both front-end and back-end. • Experience developing a variety of web applications and websites - typically from a provided design, mockup, or prototype. • Developed automated software which manages data intake and organization without human intervention. • Custom Wordpress theme and plugin development. • Website maintenance including feature enhancement and bug patches. • Laravel application development, with Vue/React front-ends. • REST API development • Business automation development - creating applications to handle a manual task or process large amounts of data. • Application and website deployments, migrations, database and data management. • Environment/server setup, configuration, and management - primarily in the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. Ongoing website maintenance for existing clients - including new features, functionality enhancements, and bug patches. Show less

Principal Web Developer

• Aug 2017 - Mar 2023

• Full stack web developer, working on both front-end and back-end.• Responsible for defining, developing, and evolving websites and web applications in a fast paced and agile development environment.• Design, develop, troubleshoot, debug, test, ensure browser compatibility, and implement source code by using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and MySQL.• Provide thought leadership to the team around new approaches, workflows and technologies.• Perform technical analyses for development of new features.• Track, patch, and update reported bugs, issues or any functionality problems that may arise.• Conceptualized, designed, and developed internal automated software and web applications for simplifying workflows and enabling employee engagement with minimal human intervention.• Utilized both VueJS and ReactJS front-end frameworks.• Develop and maintain a custom in-house Wordpress theme for use on corporate websites and blogs, to allow the ability to spin up new - on brand - websites quickly and efficiently.• Extended Wordpress functionality and security with custom tailored plugin development.• Self-manage multiple projects at one time, with tight turnarounds and deadlines.• Partner closely with designers, both web and UI/UX for testing, wire-framing, mock-ups and all assets.• Work closely with devops (development and operations) teams to configure, administer, and deploy server environments when needed - this includes testing new features and technology at the infrastructure level.• Responsible for all source code deployments, migrations, database management and data on the Global Communications server environments.• Oversaw and managed three different server migrations to new and upgraded environments, including the transition into cloud infrastructure.• Utilized the corporate in-house, Bootstrap like, front-end/design framework and documentation.• Train, manage and provide guidance to junior software development staff. Show less

Senior Web Developer

• May 2014 - Aug 2017

Market Art Director

• Aug 2005 - May 2014

• Responsible for the design and production of a 500+ page magazine. • Self-managed day-to-day timelines. • Designed and developed an intranet PDF archive web site to host published pages/ads that was searchable and available to the entire regions sales staff. Allowed the staff to quickly reference a page/ad by keyword, client, issue, page number or a combination. • Worked mainly with Adobe Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. • Created various designs and working concepts of ads to assist the sales staff in the field. Show less

Graphic/Web Designer

• Jan 2007 - Sep 2011

• Designed print collateral including packaging, posters, signage, direct mail outs, banners, point-of-sale and point-of-purchase displays. • Produced online graphics and HTML/CSS templates for websites related to retail products and services. • Developed and worked on internal client based sales and promotional material. • Created various web based customer portals for internal organizational use. • Customized and/or re-skinned vendor dashboards (with the ability to do so) to match client brand and visuals with custom stylesheets. Show less