Andy Hernandez Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

After experiencing the growth that came as a result of the pandemic, the focus shifted from building scalable technology to scaling the people in the engineering team. Through 2021 the number of team members grew by more than 4X. I was one of only a few key voices in decision making around hiring strategy and candidate screening. In addition, I created the initial structure for a 30/60/90 onboarding plan that is now leveraged across multiple departments throughout the company.Along with scaling the team, the company had to focus deeply on security & compliance. I was a key member in cross department collaboration to push security initiatives forward and my broad knowledge of the application (technical & functional) were critical to the SOC readiness initiative.Many of the key enhancements and additions related to AI/ML for the platform were driven by me. Through improvements to AI, I was able to directly impact proctor efficiency by reducing noise to the queue by more than 70%. In addition to changes related to facial detection, I introduced the first ML models used by the company for both predictive analytics and real-time data analysis.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Led the engineering organization through 33x hyper growth triggered by the pandemic. In order to sustain this growth, I personally identified the primary pressure points throughout the system and migrated these crucial workflows to a queue-based system in an effort to migrate to a true event-driven architecture. Prior to the pandemic, the platform would struggle to sustain 2k+ sessions per day. Through many of the efforts I led, the system has been able to sustain millions of sessions per month and consistently maintain more than 99.8% uptime.Through all this time, we were not only tasked with maintaining uptime, but we needed to add features and functionality that would meet & exceed market demands. Through this I’ve driven the development of various initiatives including multiple enhancements to our AI technology that has resulted in significant reduction in human capital spent sifting through irrelevant AI flags. All of that above was achieved while simultaneously contributing to multiple changes to technology & contract agreements that directly led to multi-million dollar savings for the organization.

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

• Design, develop and implement a leading software based weight-loss solution that includes custom tailored meal planning, calorie counting, social networking & fitness videos.• Design, develop & manage multiple wordpress web properties generating millions of visits per month• Improve upon already existing SEO strategies to generate near 90%+ increases in web traffic, which resulted in similar increases in revenue.• Architect & Build custom web applications for inventory management and internal project management Using Laravel, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

• Architect, manage & build enterprise level product discovery, inventory management & business analytics web applications targeted at online retailers and product manufacturers.• Manage & lead A+ level development team from conceptualization to execution of multiple multi-million dollar Software-as-a-Service applications.• All of the above was designed, architected & developed in Laravel, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, while also using various custom built OOP MVC frameworks and connecting to multiple 3rd party APIs & web services.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• UI/UX Design for online/offline course materials used at the annual Citrix Synergy event• UI/UX Design & PHP Development with CakePHP for online course building application• Implementation of tools for use in transitioning from citrixtraining.com to training.citrix.com• Design marketing materials for education department (logos, posters, web banners, etc)

• Lead designer on the majority of client websites & applications• Develop and maintain client websites using HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL frequently in conjunction with open source software such as MODx, Wordpress, OpenCart, and OSCommerce• Primary developer and interface designer for internal PHP/MySQL based projects• Lead developer responsible for jQuery development on client sites and plugin development • Managed multiple freelance designers and developers

Palm City, Florida, Us

• Design, Develop, and maintain over 150 websites using xHTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySQL which led to strong fundamentals in project and time management skills• Assisted in the development of an enterprise level proprietary content management & real-time financial data system written in Ruby on Rails• Helped develop the creative the division of Equisolve• Managed multiple designers on various in-house and client projects

Naples, Florida, Us

• Design layout for contest and promotional pages for large name clients such as Old Navy, Burger King, Outback Steakhouse, The Melting Pot and many more• Interface design for new sites and/or redesign of radio station websites such as KISS FM, Power 96 and Gretchen 99.9 among many others• In charge of Flash/XML/MySQL Database integration and PHP programming

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Single tutor responsible for assisting any of 300+ Interactive Media students along with students from all programs throughout the school in topics such as xHTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and many more• Handled special projects assigned by department chair• Assist instructors in Interactive Media Design classes as requested and occasionally teach classes on up and coming technologies no taught via the standard curriculum to students

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Davie, Fl, Us

Bachelor'S, Web & Interactive Media Design

Coursework Completed, Computer Science