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Purchase, Ny, Us

Lead software engineer for Switch Configuration Management.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Lead software engineer within Click To Pay product teams.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Co-lead architecture and managed development team for internal web component framework (DXP - Digital eXperience Platform).Worked with primary architect to setup development framework for Click To Pay, the Masterpass successor product. Created prototypes and proofs of concept for second generation Masterpass implementation.

Philadelpia, Pa, Us

During my entire time at Urban, I worked closely with the lead engineer on a high profile Angular 1.x ecommerce project.Unit testing and best practices across the technologies (Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) were mandated and enforced via linting, Git pre-commit/pre-push hooks, stringent code reviews performed prior to every merge, and automated processes performed via continuous integration.The client communicated with the backend via a Python micro-service API.

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

Developer on team building a first-of-kind broadcast set top box interface for one of the world's largest telecommunication companies.The application is built using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 and is hosted on an embedded linux platform using a QtWebKit based browser. Because of hardware limitations and performance concerns, the application uses very little library code in favor of vanilla JavaScript.

Summary: Sole resource for the development of an EdTech startup web application.Highlights: In this role I've been able to choose all elements of the technology stack for a new development effort and dedicate myself to education and production on the stack. The key elements ended up as Ruby on Rails 3.2, several popular Ruby/Rails gems/engines (OmniAuth, Devise, CanCan, Rails Admin), MySQL, jQuery / jQuery UI, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, HAML, SASS, Git, and Capistrano.Additional Technology Exposure: Automated unit, integration, and acceptance testing (RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara), continuous integration (TeamCity), MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Heroku and jQuery plugin authoring.

Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, Us

Summary: Functioned in both development and management capacities within Enterprise development effort focused on mobile Internet devices.Highlights: Developed PHP / MySQL / Twitter API / OAuth implementation; developed MySQL / PHP Red5 Flash Server audio upload implementation; design and development of PHP audio / image resource provisioning and distribution API utilizing ffmpeg and ImageMagick; worked within a distributed development team (US / Chile / India); tasked as project owner for flagship application and traveled to Chile to initiate both the project kickoff and Beta go-live; implemented and administered Google Apps for Domains for corporate email and collaboration; functioned as surrogate Linux sysadmin (Apache / MySQL / PHP); DNS administration; Subversion repository administration; transition to Ruby on Rails development.Additional Technology Exposure: Android SDK, CodeIgniter, cPanel, Trac, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, jQuery, Eclipse, Jira, JSON, Warehouse (Subversion / Ruby on Rails), mod_rewrite, Scrum, Zoho Projects, authentication / authorization patterns, Moodle, Blackboard, Zend Framework, Enterprise Architect.

Summary: Independent contract and freelance development.Highlights: Successfully transitioned my career from primarily using the Progress Advanced Business Language to more modern and personally fulfilling open source technologies; development and maintenance of eCommerce website using Zen Cart (PHP) including custom PHP / MySQL development for inventory import, order fulfillment, and order confirmation import; eCommerce work also included SSL implementation, merchant credit card processing, PayPal integration, and pay-per-click advertising management; development of PHP / MySQL CodeIgniter MVC site with custom PHP eBay API implementation and light Javascript (Prototype.js / Scriptaculous); various client work with technologies including Progress, PHP / MySQL, Wordpress, Zen Cart, Zend Framework, and Joomla.Additional Technology Exposure: cPanel, Plesk, Apache, CSS, jQuery, SEO, SEM, the GTD methodology, Photoshop.

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Summary: Front and back end enterprise eCommerce and web application development using the Progress Advanced Business Language and Progress RDBMS platform.Highlights: Played key role internalizing web hosting operations (IBM IHS/Apache); design, management, and implementation of project to separate business logic from presentation for existing eCommerce platform (alphashirt.com) which paved the way for seamless integration of two acquired companies' websites (broderbros.com and nesclothing.com) with all UIs sharing singular business logic; saw web sales segment grow from 12% to over 30% reaching over $280MM annually; design and development of a web-based photography library and PDF brochure creator using ImageMagick, WebSpeed, XML, XSL:FO, and XLST; all code and systems engineered were required to be performant on application server with over 900 concurrent connections.Additional Technology Exposure: IBM servers, DreamWeaver, Photoshop.

Summary: Design and development of front-end code for Internet, television, in-vehicle, and handheld client applications using the Traffic.com vehicular flow data services.Highlights: Contributed to this startup success story and survived all layoff rounds through dot com bomb; exposed to high quality development environment with strong best practices software development and software architecture; development of the version 2 Traffic.com website utilizing CSS, Javascript, XHTML, XML, and XSLT; design and development of various prototype interfaces to Traffic.com data including Palm OS (WCA), WML, SVG, and an interactive map user interface (Adobe Flash ActionScript 2.0 / XML) that was later adopted as the main UI element on the Traffic.com website and (the current incarnation of which) remains as its most prominent feature today; design, and development of 1st of kind 3D television news broadcast product (US patent #7,634,352) implemented by several Big Three Television Network affiliates across the country.Additional Technology Exposure: 3D Studio Max, SCSS, Cygwin, bash, DreamWeaver, Photoshop.

Summary: Multi-user client/server manufacturing ERP application development with Progress 8.3; basic website development with HTML, Javascript, CSS, Photoshop.

Summary: Multi-user client/server application development with Progress 8.2; web application development with WebSpeed 2.1 and JavaScript.

Summary: Multi-user client/server application development with Progress 7.3 - 8.1; website design and development with FrontPage, JavaScript, and Photoshop 4.0; terminal-based application development using HP-UX and RPG.