Will Wright

Technical Lead at Guidance
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Los Angeles County, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Lead
      • Apr 2014 - Present

      Greater Los Angeles Area Requirements gathering and recording; I am mainly responsible for gathering requirements from the client and any third parties. I translate these into the artifacts that are necessary for the development team to act on; epics, stories, time estimates, documentation etc. Architecture; I am responsible for working with IT to make sure that the environment that the application will live in is as good as we can make it. This includes; recommendations for instance types (AWS), services… Show more Requirements gathering and recording; I am mainly responsible for gathering requirements from the client and any third parties. I translate these into the artifacts that are necessary for the development team to act on; epics, stories, time estimates, documentation etc. Architecture; I am responsible for working with IT to make sure that the environment that the application will live in is as good as we can make it. This includes; recommendations for instance types (AWS), services needed (MySQL, PHP, Redis, Varnish, etc). Logging applications. Service monitoring. NFS. High Availability. Quality: I help to guide the developers in making important implementation decisions that will lead to better quality in the final product. I help enabled QA members to be able to test the application in meaningful ways. I do code review. I am in charge of source branching strategy and deployment workflows. General unblocker of things: Much of my day consists of ensuring that the development team remains productive and on schedule. Technoloy: LAMP | JavaScript | jQuery | Prototype | KnockoutJS | RequireJS | CSS | LESS Show less

    • Senior Web Developer
      • Jan 2013 - Mar 2014

      Greater Los Angeles Area To create new functionality for the e-commerce application. This would include developing custom modules in PHP for the Magento framework that would increase or modify some piece of functionality. Examples would be: integrating with third party services like facebook, google analytics, various APIs, automating some functionality, create custom business rules, etc. I also helped facilitate frontend development by making data available thru views providing new Javascript functionality and… Show more To create new functionality for the e-commerce application. This would include developing custom modules in PHP for the Magento framework that would increase or modify some piece of functionality. Examples would be: integrating with third party services like facebook, google analytics, various APIs, automating some functionality, create custom business rules, etc. I also helped facilitate frontend development by making data available thru views providing new Javascript functionality and HTML/CSS work. Technoloy: LAMP | JavaScript | jQuery | Prototype | YUI | CSS | SASS Show less

    • United States
    • Retail Apparel and Fashion
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Web Developer
      • Dec 2009 - Dec 2012

      Full stack development on the TOMS e-commerce website. Backend: Creating/Modifying Magento application (LAMP stack) to meet business requirements. Could be anything from adding frontend functionality to integrating with third party services. Frontend: HTML/CSS/JS. Taking design comps from the creative team and producing final outcomes on the website. Job Title Technology: LAMP | JavaScript | jQuery | Prototype | CSS

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Web Developer
      • Jun 2008 - Dec 2009

      Web Developer. PHP, ASP, .NET, JavaScript xHTML, CSS

    • Creative Director
      • Aug 2007 - Jun 2008

    • Systems Engineer
      • Mar 2004 - Aug 2007

      Responsible for internal systems maintenance and feautes additions. Involved in the creation of dynamic web applications including CRM systems, data collection, and third party integrations in the VREO Inc. core applications.

    • Web Developer
      • 1999 - 2003

Education

  • California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
    BS, Physics
    1998 - 2003

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