Senior LAMP Web/Application Developer
With over 6 years of combined programming, database, systems design/implementation and web application development experience, I am extremely well motivated with an unquenchable desire to learn. I posess a proven track record of successful, well written and deployed applications. I really like object oriented design and have been expanding my understanding of design patterns.
I’m currently employed as a full–time web developer by DomainTools in Seattle‚ WA. For more information on my previous employment‚ download my resumé, email me at [javascript protected email address], or check out my LinkedIn profile.
Some of my skills
Languages:- Proficient in: PHP 4.x/5.x, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL
- Intermediate skills: AJAX, CSS, DOM, Perl, XML, PEAR, PECL, JQuery, YUI, RegEx, MVC, Java
- Familiar with: C/C++, C#, Ruby, UML, XSLT, SQLite
- Database: MySQL 5.0, relational database structures, PHPMyAdmin
- Editors: Komodo Edit/IDE, Eclipse, Notepad++, Vi/Vim, some Visual Studio
- Source Control: CVS, Subversion, Perforce
- Environment: Apache 2.x, Android SDK 1.6/2.0, PHPUnit
- Tracking: Pivotal, Trac, Bugzilla, FogBugz
- Content: Wordpress, b2evolution, Expression Engine, Drupal
- Platforms:
- Microsoft Windows – XP, Vista
- Linux – Fedora Core 4, CentOS 5.x, Ubuntu 7.x/8.x/9.x
- VMware – ESXi/Infrastructure Client, Workstation, Player
Some of my portfolio
These are some things I have done for my own projects and for previous employers. The work I am most excited about is positioned on the back end which is difficult to showcase here. Not all of these projects are currently accessible but were all at one time public facing to millions of customers. Code samples are available upon request!
Flicka is my passion to learn and implement an awesome Android application. It brings Flickr to the mobile platform utilizing the Android SDK in creative ways. Working with an enthusiastic designer, the front end looks as good as the code underneath! That's why I co-founded MokaSocial.
The Xunlai Tournament House was a large project which involved tieing game login to the website at the Guild Wars website.
It was a very involved project using sockets to communicating with authenication servers to login, tableless layouts, and was available in several languages using XML language files. I had to coordinate with several teams and the NOC to make sure deployment and the site's operation went smoothly.
The Xunlai Tournament House had quite a few newer layout features such as CSS/JS dialog boxes, YUI based drag and drop spanning multiple pages, JS resorting in the target area, and tabbed sections – to name a few things. All this was fully cross browser compatible.
The back end required several checks to ensure tight security in voting and the login in mechanisms. After the tournament was completed, a script would collate and then deliver the winners and their points to the server team. Winning points in this web feature meant users could be awarded items in game which made this a very popular application for our users.
The Official Guild Wars Guild Ladder uses AJAX to update pagination and sorting. Clicking on a guild will reveal statistics and graphs created data points fromn all the entries for that parricular guild for the season.
The Official Guildwars Challenge Mission Ladder was a project that involved interfacing with several teams. I needed server developers to provide the right data to the MySQL tables on an hourly basis. I needed designers to help decide how they wanted the info displayed. I needed the internationalization team to help translate the content into 9 languages. There were a lot of moving parts for me to track.
The ladder features AJAX driven updates pulling information on the fly from a database, agregating and calculating averages and then caching them in a memory table.
The ArenaNet company website started as a chunky design that was hard to update. Working with a designers and artists, we created a site that changed our online presence to a modernized look and feel.
My contributions were primarily in converting all the content to utilize the Expression Engine content management system. Some aspects were simple straight ports of pages into the CMS. Other aspects involved understanding how the system paginated articles, created breadcrumbs, and so on.