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Software Engineer
NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric AdministrationSoftware Engineer
Jan. 2023Rochester, NYResponsible for maintaining web systems that deliver weather content to and from NOAA, local affiliates, and the general public.
Senior PHP Developer
SGS & CoSenior PHP Developer
Mar. 2020 - Dec. 2022New York, United StatesHeld and managed meetings with team principles, clients and stakeholders, discussing project goals and timelines, technological questions, status updates. Conducted extensive needs assessments, especially where development was greenfield for older clients. Working in concert with the rest of the management team, designed user stories to match the needs of the application. Confirmed those stories with the team, and demonstrated when those stories were fulfilled by development. Led an Agile-focused team setting with weekly stand-ups and bi-weekly principles meetings and monthly sprints. Configured, deployed and maintained Microsoft Azure working environments and resources including virtual machines and MySQL instances to support the application. CI/CD: Deployed resources through a combination of Azure Repos and Pipelines, providing updated code to multiple environments on demand. Developed an online order management system for combining marketing images with deliverable physical media and shipping to stores on-site. Developed an order estimation system for distilling complex, large marketing jobs down to estimated costs. Used a combination of PHPUnit, PHPStan and PHP CodeSniffer to provide robust error and grammar checks on all code, ensuring stable, error-free code.
Senior PHP Developer and Scrum Master
ACTSenior PHP Developer and Scrum Master
Apr. 2019 - Feb. 2020Responsible for developing content management solutions for the CASE Framework competency documents for ACT's outside educational clients. Interfacing with non-company stakeholders on the continuous development of the CASE standard. Maintaining technical documents on all relevant systems. Analyzing client needs and matching them to the design standard.
WordPress Web Developer
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWordPress Web Developer
Jan. 2018 - Jun. 2018Atlanta, GASupporting the CDC's customized WordPress CMS, which publishes static HTML to the web. Maintaining, supporting and extending plugins and the system theme. Migrating the site to a new theme, which included deprecating old functions, modifying others, and creating new. Shortcodes API, Visual Composer, ShortCake, Open Calais, Rabbit MQ.
Wordpress Developer
freshopWordpress Developer
Jun. 2017 - Sep. 2017Pittsford, New YorkDeveloping themes, plugins and infrastructure to support the freshop ecosystem of shopping cart software for local grocers. Worked with the Schema.org markup system to create SEO-ready views of primarily JavaScript-served content.
PHP Developer
Cornell UniversityPHP Developer
Aug. 2016 - Mar. 2017Ithaca, New York AreaI make the codes.
Team Leader, Senior PHP Developer
J&E Media CorpTeam Leader, Senior PHP Developer
Jul. 2015 - Apr. 2016Rochester, NYJ&E is primarily a merchant services company, but they wanted to also offer web properties to their clients. My task was to build a team and infrastructure that could put out a new mobile-friendly website with updated location search information, new social media accounts and regularly-updated content on a weekly basis. All within a 30 day SLA. I hired two graphic designers, one content manager, one junior developer and myself to complete this team. We used JIRA as our project management software in conjunction with Capsule CRM. Internally, I set my client up with a virtual private server (VPS) to serve his content from, with WordPress Multi User installed and WordPress MU Domain Mapping in place. Thus, websites were served up at their own J&E-managed domain names, but from a single installation of WordPress, thus significantly lowering the cost of maintenance to J&E. This environment included the LAMP stack, firewall, SMTP relay and the normal but minimal requirements for a functioning web server.
Contract Web Developer
University of RochesterContract Web Developer
Mar. 2013 - Sep. 2013Rochester, NYDesigned and developed application allowing professors and graduate students to accept, rate, and comment upon images and documents relating to applications for a commission to install a new statue on the River Campus. Functionality included AJAX uploads, comments and ratings, ImageMagic-driven thumbnails for both images and PDF documents, administrative and public user roles and privileges. Using Zurb Foundation responsive web design technology, jQuery scripting and HTML5/CSS3 design, developed the University of Rochester’s Big Data website, highlighting the U of R’s multi-million dollar venture into the world of massive data analysis: http://rochester.edu/rocdata/ Developed an open source WordPress plugin creating an academic-specific Content Management System. The plugin provides a means for academic faculty and students to display publications, profile information, selected third-party news feeds and photo galleries on their websites, while at the same time allowing site managers to enable and disable content types on a per-site basis. Developed jQuery-driven, dynamic and validated forms to replace paper-based processes such as registering classes, professors and graduate students for new classes to be taught at the University. Created a framework and advised the creation of a javascript-driven search engine to display mathematical formulas and their graphs to publish vital optics content previously held in out-of-print textbooks.
Developer, Writer, Owner
HolisticNetworking.netDeveloper, Writer, Owner
Jan. 2004HolisticNetworking.Net is a website dedicated to getting the most out of PHP frameworks and applications. Tips for designing web pages, building applications in CakePHP, WordPress and Drupal.
Owner, Writer, Developer
DragonFlyEye.NetOwner, Writer, Developer
Jan. 2004Rochester, NYScience and technology news writing, editing. Mentoring RIT journalism interns

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