Alexander Ward Email & Phone Number

I'm making games and stuff. That means I'm:* The Lead Designer* Print and PDF Layout Design Lead* Chief Marketer* "That guy with the wacky ideas"* Everything Else

New York, New York, Us

As the Sr. Director of Connected Platforms Architecture I'm responsible for leading the architecture and master plan with focus on enterprise platforms, integration, data exchange, workflows, security, and infrastructure. This role leads the development of horizontal enterprise strategies, cross functional blueprints, plans, and standards.

New York, New York, Us

As Director, Architecture, Platforms & Prototypes I have:· Team lead for a Rapid-Prototyping Squad, specializing in developing proof-of-concept works to answer questions for other organizational units. · Enterprise Architecture aligned with the Consumer and Commercial platforms - specifically focused on improving and supporting our Microservices, Static Site Hosting, Mobile Backend-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure backends.· Project member of the Security in Scrum workstream, teaching agile teams how to do Threat Modeling and developing a Security Champion program. · Helped architect systems for low-code site building, including a graphical web builder, email builder, and sales presentation builder.· Worked on technical implementation on the Pfizer Design system - created the technical framework using StencilJS to produce standards-compliant web components, and acted as Technical product owner while hiring technical leadership. · Lead vendor selection for the commercial authentication replacement system; Led the Vendor configuration work-stream for the migration and ongoing roll-out of said authentication system.· Produced countless system architectures diagrams alongside the commercial organization to develop new solutions and to promote those solutions to other parts of the business.· Wrote code in the following languages/frameworks to support the above: Typescript, Angular, PHP, Python, Terraform, Bash, Java, Swift, a smattering of Go

I specialize in several different areas of Technical Architecture and Development, I've done Security and Performance work on PHP / Ionic applications, AWS infrastructure maintenance and design, Mobile application architecture, and oversight / audit of the entire stack supporting those mobile applications.I'm currently on full-time contract with a Fortune 100 company as the Mobile Hybrid Architect.

Boston, Ma, Us

Specialize in Performance and Load testing of Drupal Applications, hardware, and associated systems.

Boston, Ma, Us

Migrated systems into Drupal from a wide variety of different platforms. Also worked doing architecture of Drupal systems.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

Wrote application code in PHP for a high-traffic environment, utilizing Memcached, MySQL, Zeus, and Icinga. Application is mostly home-grown, with a new project utilizing Laravel 3. Also wrote a pseudo-ORM for the project.Helped maintain the multi-cluster, multi-master databases along with the primary DBA. Responsible for ensuring schema changes were made on production, as well as being on-call to resolve issues.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Developed application features to client specifications, worked with several different teams on various projects to meet launch deadlines.Architected several sub-systems, such as loyalty, tournament, chat v2 and v3, polling. Worked mainly in PHP and MySQL, but also wrote C# APIs for the clients and Python daemons to handle chat and loyalty operations. Also worked in ActionScript 3 for the two chat projects and wrote a MUC implementation for the Python XMPP SDK.