Carson Black Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Davis, Ca

Develop and implement custom Drupal content management system based websites and University specific Drupal distributions for departments and organizations throughout the University. Provide user training for administrative and editorial functions.Function as team leader on development projects.

- Developed custom Drupal modules and themes, patches for contributed modules to improve or extend functionality. - Contributed and maintained modules on Drupal.org.- Built Drupal based publishing platforms for news, automotive, classifieds, coupons, business directories and e-commerce.- Used object oriented PHP programming to develop data migration modules using the Migrate module API to perform large, repeatable data migrations from external systems into Drupal.- Improved code quality, reduced implementation errors and confusion, and enabled better collaboration by creating a complete development, staging and production workflow, standards, and documentation where none previously existed.- Set up and maintained cloud based Linux web servers. Performed many DevOps tasks.- Worked with editors, business clients, and users to improve user experience and refine requirements.- Provided training to editors, sales teams and business owners in the areas of Internet Marketing and website administration.

Built custom e-commerce video training website using PHP, MySQL Javascript, HTML and CSS.Created content management and user management functionality.Implemented live video streaming solution into site.

- Handled all aspects of business including sales, accounting, customer service, marketing, as well as all web development, PHP programming, search engine optimization and search marketing services for small to medium sized businesses.- Using object oriented PHP and Ruby programming techniques and development frameworks, such as CakePHP and Ruby On Rails, developed websites that provided content management, inventory management, e-commerce and marketing features.- Through effective management of large budget Google AdWords and Yahoo pay-per-click search engine marketing campaigns reduced costs and increased qualified lead traffic (cost per conversion reduced by 85%, increased qualified lead generation by 75%).

Developed Intranet site for the Pharmaceutical Services division.

- Developed informational intranet site for department.- Trained employees and assisted users in support of corporate website.- Trained employees on usage of new computer systems and customer support. - Performed investigations across departments to solve account problems for top producing mutual fund brokers.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Instructional Technology

General Education