Benjamin Brooke Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, California, Us

Develop and maintain large portfolio of client websites and touchscreen applications. Site structures include many custom WordPress themes, React frontends and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Translate Adobe XD/Illustrator/Photoshop designs in fully functional, responsive and performant websites. Integrate Email Provider/CRM platforms into website forms. Development system typically includes Webpack, SASS, Bootstrap 4/5 and a variety of JavaScript libraries to meet individual client needs.Maintain numerous server, database and DNS configurations. Manage multiple production, staging and utility/support Linux servers with Digital Ocean and AWS platforms. Duties include creating servers, installing appropriate tech stack (usually LAMP) and updating periodically. Create scalable server architecture with AWS Elastic Beanstalk to provide client with the ability to rapidly scale up infrastructure to meet growing site demand. Integrate other AWS products such as RDS, CloudFront, S3 and ElastiCache to improve asset delivery and site performance.Create marketing emails using a variety of methods, based on client preference. These include MJML for responsive emails, HTML tables and various email provider editors such as HubSpot and Pardot. Use Litmus to test email code across a wide range of device and email client configurations. Develop tricks of the trade and best practices to produce a consistent product on MS Outlook. Create custom contact lists based on user behavior, location and other metrics. Develop automated email flows based on user behavior. Schedule and deploy emails.

Design, develop and maintain websites and applications. Work with small/medium sized businesses such as a private medical practices, physical therapy practices, Ecommerce retailers, etc. to create custom solutions for their business needs. Highlights include in depth online forms, email marketing, and maintaining a high SEO ranking, while keeping hosting and other overhead down. Projects utilize a wide range of technologies with a mobile first approach. These include JavaScript, React, Node, PHP, custom WordPress themes and more. Basically, I build whatever my clients need.

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Managed one of the largest WooCommerce stores on the web, offering nearly 200K individual products. Developed features for a highly customized WordPress/WooCommerce theme with PHP, JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Fixed various issues around mobile optimization, third party integrations, and reduced bugs in general. Developed custom software to batch order placement both via email (sample orders) and via automated FTP (EDI for large batches). Developed custom software to export WooCommerce data into QuickBooks. Developed custom software to create real-time and interactive order management system with Google Sheets. Introduced SEO best practices to increase organic traffic. Handled DevOps such as DNS records, source code management with Git, and deployment via Digital Ocean VMs. Developed custom CLI including file system and string utilities, image editing/optimization, E2E testing with Puppeteer, and SERP analytics. Extensive use of web scraping and Excel to gather and format/clean data. Utilized Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create graphics, automated image formatting, and optimize images for web use.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Software Development

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies