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Cigna / Express Scripts

The Technical Consultant is a subject matter expert in the focus area of Drupal application and LAMP stack performance tuning and creates performance optimization engagements for some of the largest, well-known companies worldwide. The Technical Specialist also provides consulting and guidance to our Delivery projects as needed and acts as an innovation magnet and desires to continually learn new technologies and technical approaches.Key Responsibilities: • Provide targeted technical expertise through Professional Services load testing and performance-focused engagements• Continually learn and improve upon performance-testing related skills• Develop solution/system architecture that takes into account the full set of technical influencers• Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to changing technical landscape, innovations and clients• Switch gears to support multiple enterprise websites in 2-3 week sprints• Drive technical innovations within the rest of the Professional Services organization• Operate as a thought leader for Acquia Professional Services and the Drupal Community, providing technical presentations and consulting• Partner closely with Technical Account Managers, Project Managers, and Technical Architects to reach common goals• Ensure complete and proper documentation is logged regarding solutions and discussions

HP Cloud Services provides the next generation of cloud infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers, independent software vendors, and businesses of all sizes. As a Software Engineer, I develop and integrate web applications that drive customer experience and support partner solutions within the OpenStack Horizon UI service and HPE Helion. Note: In November of 2015, HP separated into 2 companies, HP, Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As part of the Cloud Services team, I was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Key accomplishments thus far:- Contributed features and bug fixes to the OpenStack Horizon project, a Django-based web interface for managing OpenStack cloud resources- Contributed to the development of an AngularJS-based "Launch Instance" wizard within the OpenStack Horizon project, leveraging and building upon existing Python-based REST APIs for all OpenStack service endpoints so that the user is presented with an optimized "Single Page Application" user experience- Worked with HPE UX to implement a customized theme/branding of the Horizon web interface within HPE Helion OpenStack distribution -- leveraging Bootstrap/SCSS/Javascript/nodejs/Django - Contributed to add "Domain" support within the OpenStack Horizon and OpenStack Keystone projects- Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks for automating the deployment of the Horizon service within the HPE Helion OpenStack distribution -- leveraging Ansible, Vagrant, Ruby, Shell scripting

HP Cloud Services provides the next generation of cloud infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers, independent software vendors, and businesses of all sizes. As a Software Engineer, I develop and integrate web applications that drive customer experience and support partner solutions at HP Cloud Services. Key accomplishments:- Contributed changes to the OpenStack Murano project to help implement a "marketplace" sampling of HP Software within the HPE Helion Cloud distribution of OpenStack - Developed and deployed Drupal-based sites for hpcloud.com (www.hpcloud.com, docs.hpcloud.com, community.hpcloud.com)- Created a web-based pricing calculator that enabled customers to price out various options/ configurations of compute, CDN and non-CDN bandwidth, and object and block storage- Developed and deployed Partner Solutions/Marketplace microsite at https://marketplace.hpcloud.com- Automated deployment/continuous integration via Jenkins CI and GitHub- Designed and implemented "New To Cloud" User Experience and User Interface on www.hpcloud.com

Greater New York City Area

Contributed to the launch and development of ConsumerSearch.com, a top online publisher of product reviews designed to help consumers make the best purchasing decisions. In this role, I strategized and implemented methods to best accomplish business goals using a broad range of technologies. I helped build a highly customized Content Management System for the editorial team using Drupal, with an emphasis on improving workflow, publishing options and the user experience. I developed and maintained custom Drupal modules and themes to support both the Content Management System used by staff as well as the Consumersearch.com website used by the general public. As a theme developer, I developed clean, optimized markup using XHTML/HTML5, CSS, and Javascript. As a module developer, I promoted the use of coding standards and best practices. I was also responsible for Drupal configuration, administration, and debugging.I took the lead in developing a mobile version of the website that leveraged existing content and URLs in order to retain SEO strength. Additionally, I led web performance optimization efforts that drastically decreased page load time. These efforts involved: (1) tuning Apache, MySQL, and Memcached for optimal performance, (2) enforcing Drupal best practices and core hacks, (3) front-end and 3rd party optimizations, (4) optimizing SQL and Views (i.e., exporting views from DB to code to utilize opcode cache), and (5) implementing domain sharding of assets (images, CSS, Javascript) and integrating with a Content Delivery Network (Akamai). I also initiated, developed, and maintained an automated QA testing system that significantly improved our quality assurance process and minimized loss of revenue. This solution involved integrating Selenium Server along with PhpUnit and Jenkins CI.

Greater New York City Area

As part of a new startup within About.com, developed an online content management system, a publishing system, and a delivery system to support the LifeWire service. The LifeWire service delivered "evergreen" content to top-20 web publishers. Technical work involved: Drupal theme and module development, Drupal configuration and administration, implementing and leveraging Web Services (e.g., XML-RPC, AJAX). Additionally, I coordinated software releases and helped manage quality assurance for the team.

Croton Falls, Ny

Supervised, maintained and implemented all web development projects. The two most significant sites I developed were for Porsche Cars of North America: porschedealer.com and pcnasource.com. For Porschedealer.com, I conceptualized and developed a Porsche sponsored system for creating/maintaining individual dealer websites, which was launched in 2002. A main area of focus was on corporate identity compliance, i.e., the "look and feel", so close attention was paid to designing pages/modules that adhered to Porsche style guides, allowing individual dealers to customize their sites within constraints. This was handled by developing our own content management system and template engine using Open Source technology (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). I also developed and implemented several automated web services allowing Porsche and external providers to send inventory data feeds that were parsed and assigned to dealers. porschedealer.com has been successfully running since 2002 and has received constant praise for its reliability and ease of use.pcnasource.com was launched back in 1998 as Porsche Cars of North America's secure intranet and learning portal for all its North American dealers. Originally a repository of product knowledge, it later was expanded to handle certification of its sales force via monthly certification tests administered online. I helped develop and expand the testing engine (Perl) as well as define and write the code that handled the certification logic and reporting. Over the years, the system was expanded to support other job roles (AfterSales, Technicians) as well as other learning modalities such as web-based training and workshops. Given the growth of the system, I recommended and implemented the migration from Perl to PHP. I developed a training enrollment module that allowed administrators to define courses, schedule events and handle enrollments. Looking back, we essentially custom built our own Learning Management System.

Danbury, Ct

Provided graphic design, web design, internet strategy and search engine optimization services. Clients included: Scholastic, Praxair, Somethin' Else, Radio 4.