OPUBCO Communications GroupSenior Programmer
Jan. 2012 - Jun. 2012At OPUBCO, I worked on Wimgo, an events and business directory developed as an extension to the Oklahoman news offerings. Early in my employment, I helped develop new features for the website such as Facebook login and full-text search using Sphinx and, later, FAST. As my role grew, I established a new MVC framework pattern and worked with a team to transition the old site to the new framework while constantly maintaining all existing functionality over more than six months. We eventually abandoned Sphinx and FAST for a different search engine based on Apache Solr. I was instrumental in the transition to the new search platform as I was the developer on the team with the most experience in search. While that project was underway, I had daily interaction with business leaders and outside contractors in order to align our business goals and development needs. After the Wimgo project ended, myself with a team of one other programmer and a designer, developed a website to leverage the data and knowledge that we had from Wimgo. Unfortunately, that website was not adopted by OPUBCO as a product to continue investment in.