ANDY HAWKINS Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

We're dream builders, and are always looking to apply our years of experience and expertise to help construct the next big innovation. We are truly passionate for technology and innovation in all its forms, with proven expertise in all aspects of building environments, applications, security and optimization.

Hollywood, Ca, Us

Brought on as part of this company's big data backend push forward.Monitoring of the social networks alone was a massive undertaking. So far collected the largest amount of data in the shortest time I've ever accomplished. Copious amounts of data from influencers, to their followings, and mapping across all the major platforms.I've also built out some really amazing bleeding edge stuff, and continue to enhance the magic behind the scenes that really drives the ROI home. Ranging from Machine Learning Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Image / Brand / Facial Recognition, to Optical Character Recognition.

West Hollywood, Ca, Us

Lead Cylon Developer. When a client has a technical bomb ticking, we get called in to defuse the situation.Bombsquad is an autonomous guerrilla web development group. Everything internet, web, mobile, and desktop.A small sample of our complete skill sets available:Adobe Design Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc), AWS, Rackspace, Azure, Agile Methods and Design Patterns, Alexandra, Android Development, AngularJS, Apache, ASP.NET, Apex (Salesforce), BerkeleyDB, C++, C#, .NET, Cassandra, Cacti, CDN (All), CentOS, CouchBase, CouchDB, CSS 3, Debian, Drupal, Durandal, ElasticSearch, F#, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Google Search Appliance, Google Analytics, Google Cloud Messaging, Hack, Hadoop, HBase, HTML 5, HyperDex, iOS Development, Java, JavaScript, Joomla, jQuery, Lighttpd, Linux, Lucene, Magento, MariaDB, Memcached, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft IIS, Modernizer, MongoDB, MooTools, MySQL, Nagios, Network Administration, Network Architecture, Nginx, Node.js, NoSQL, OpenBSD, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, RabbitMQ+, Redis, RHEL, Scala, SignalR, Software Architecture, SQLite, Squid, Ubuntu, Underscore, Varnish, Web Application Security, Windows Mobile, Wordpress

Southampton, Ny, Us

Leading the design & build of Mental Workout's core technology and infrastructure.✔ Developed an entire custom analytics system that tracked all key metrics of their site and applications usage. It offers a unique ACL system so that we can allow companies to see their employees usage with as much or as little information shown as desired.✔ Developed their self documenting, versioning, API system, that helped launch them into the multi program realm.✔ Managed and lead the design of how the mobile applications should be implemented with the native mobile teams.✔ Developed their entire media infrastructure that transcodes all their media to match and fit each device class, and sizes perfectly. 20k+ media assets, 30k+ image assets, .✔ Migrated their network infrastructure to a Rackspace Cloud setup that is easily scaleable from their existing Rackspace Site's implementation.✔ Developed some of the core technologies behind their module system for the programs they offer.✔ Currently working on refactoring, adding on, and strengthening the backend services that run the rest of the system.

At the front lines of building the first 100% fully asynchronous project and client collaboration software. Andy's responsibilities are everything related to the front-end coding, through server management, all the way to network setup and security. Developing a mixture of proprietary and open source software such as Durandal, Knockout, SPA, Websockets, Wamp, Crossbar, Python, Php, Memcache, MariaDB, including many others. Combining all of these technologies to bring the power of real time collaboration to the mass public. Worksfire aims to to be the one stop shop for managing your business and client relationships, as well as a portal for clients to connect with professionals on their projects.

Completely built out a social media digital coupon platform that allow businesses to offer social media coupons that raised the discount based on the amount of shares / likes it gained. This provided the business with a double win solution in both traffic, and sales.

Moscow, Ru

Provided oversight and reference to the investing interest, and the company itself from a technology standpoint.

Hollywood, Fl, Us

As Chief Technical Officer was responsible for all technical aspects of the company's high profile election information services, including the day-to-day management and operation of the company's web site as well the design and build of the site’s supporting applications and data systems. Designed and managed and Nginx, Haproxy Memcache, Apache, PHP, and mySQL environment. Implemented a fully cloud based system (Rackspace) and a CentOS security system, utilizing IP tables and Openvpn. Designed and built a universal database system that was relationship friendly while still being flexible and scalable. Handled very large data sets totaling 100 million records within a database environment scalable to 1 billion records. Built multi-threaded parser processes to speed the import of new/updated district and address data into the database. Designed and deployed a network capable of handling peak +500k visitors a day with minimal system resources – including white-label support for third party’s such as Yahoo! and NBC Local Media. Designed technical solutions to support the company’s search engine optimization and search marketing efforts. Created a dynamic URL system with custom headers within an extensive caching system. Created a search infrastructure utilizing fuzzy logic and soundex tools for collections including, street addresses, candidate names, organization names, candidate offices and organizational endorsements. Created administrative tools enabling data entry teams to edit and manage millions of points of data across the system. Integrated with Paypal, creating a charging system allowing candidates and organizations the ability to accept donations via the eVoter system, including the official 2012 Republican Presidential Straw Polls for the States of Illinois and Oklahoma.

As Vice President of Technology for Big Jump Media was directly responsible for designing and building virtually all aspects of the company's social media and streaming video services. Scalability efforts were instrumental in the company's site being named by comScore as the fastest growing in the US in August 2007, with traffic successfully scaling by +900% to almost 2 million unique visitors in a single month. Built video upload, encoding and distribution infrastructure; administration tools for management of user generated content, including approval queues and language/profanity filters; application and network security infrastructure; network and application monitoring; database schema and architecture; back up and redundancy tools; Rackspace cloud and Akamai and Limelight CDN integration. Lead data center migration efforts, created extensive content caching infrastructure. Instrumental in recruiting and expanding technical staff, ultimately responsible for 17 developers. Created and managed source control and code review processes for the team. Managed and monitored development, staging and production environments. Personally lead application hardening and penetration testing efforts.

Webmaster and Campaign Services Lead for both the US and UK branches for Adsmart, the leading online advertising agency based in the UK. Deployed a sugarCRM installation to manage their inventory of advertisers and publishers. Developed custom module add-ons that handled insertion orders and publisher acquisitions. Designed and developed the company’s contextually targeted ad system where the ad tags were placed on a page, registered in the database, crawled and scanned for relevant content on the page, then identified the best inventory for that page and saved to the database for return visitors. Handled numerous website properties, increasing performance, and allowing for the downsizing their network. In campaign services, worked directly with sales, managing inventory and placement of advertisements within the publisher network.

On-call contractor for a leading distributor of construction materials in Jacksonville Florida.Managed a UNIX AIX POS system.Lead the effort to convert dummy terminals to Windows, substantially increasing sales force productivity.Built the company's first website and online product catalog.