Chad Edwards Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

In this role, I primarily utilize frameworks Laravel and Vue to design, engineer and develop API-driven enterprise applications which are scalable and adaptable to rapidly changing business environments. I have extensive experience with Docker, AWS services including Elemental Media products, Lambda, and building complex ecosystems with S3 serving as the file system.

Alberta, Canada

Canadian independent publishing brand dedicated to cultivating a strong network and relationships with distributors and booksellers. Primarily serving mythology and romance, I have also published music and children's fiction. Our first exotic author release is coming this fall - stay tuned.

Home-Based

Managed a number of dedicated servers for the purposes of hosting services for myself and clients. Utilized Alpine, Cloudlinux, Ubuntu and CentOS servers (baremetal, VPS and cloud), with Python, PHP and Ruby application services. Maintained a priority focus on reducing the attack surface and mitigating customer risk. WAF and DDoS protection provided by mod_security rules and Cloudflare integrations. Experienced with Litespeed Enterprise, Apache 2 and Nginx.Websites have been built utilizing Wordpress (Woocommerce, Divi, Elementor, Gravity Forms, and a variety of other premium plugins), as well as Laravel/Lumen. In developing client services, I developed RESTful API integrations with third party services. I also provide search engine optimization, deployment of social media cards using the Open Graph Protocol, and integration with marketing services to boost lead generation.Additional services include graphic design, media asset acquisition, content editing and social media asset generation.

Canada

Leading a small team of developers, our team builds and deploys complex multi-tenanted business solutions utilizing MVC architecture, with a focus on security and privacy. We have built API integration solutions, customizable business platforms and client systems utilized by thousands of consumers. Implemented load balanced solutions behind Cloudflare hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Collaborated with customers and internal stakeholders to produce business change analysis and project proposals.

Edmonton, Ab

● Review and analyze business process requirements● Manage projects to fulfill requirements and needs assessments● Oversee Client Management team and process o This role includes the supervision of one full time employee and occasionally part time employees● Coordinate with all management levels and end-users to ensure successful deployment of business processes and services● Utilize MSSQL databases to build and execute transactional queries to query/update data sets and facilitate complex reporting projects● Work directly with external partners and clients● Research and analysis of market trends, catastrophic events, financial and business intelligence● Provide critical business intelligence and needs solutions● Assist to train and engage employees in the business on evolving processes● Work with management teams to optimize business process and develop effective deployment strategies● Manage and develop SalesForce and SurveyGizmo integrations with business processes

Edmonton, Ab

Administrate and develop a SalesForce PE implementation. ● Design and implementation of custom fields, workflows, role hierarchies, reporting and dashboard objects● Development of custom objects to integrate external data with employee workflow● Use of dataloader.io and Eclipse plugin for object and data management● Custom dev of VisualForce pages● Design and implementation of campaigns and eblasts● Training new hires on process, technology and utilization● Development of custom objects to streamline sales, financial, operational and sales process reporting● Integration with internally developed apps, external resources, and SurveyGizmo to drive sales and BI initiatives

Edmonton, Alberta

● Annual strategic report research and writing (market research, economic and environmental factors affecting risk management and business forecasting)● Business reporting (financials, inventories, strategic research)● Provide day to day guideline and policy distribution ● Manage client information systems● Work with members of the organization to achieve success in business reporting needs and Operations projects ● Maintain data integrity of client and SalesForce system. ● Active development of SalesForce platform (UI, analytics, data integrity, reporting functionality, dashboards, etc) to improve user efficiency● Sales reporting for analytics● Devise unique solutions to the needs of the sales and operations team. ● Provide training and support to stakeholders ● Write training material and information content for delivery to members of the organization's front line

Internet/Online Commerce

Developed an online community consisting of thousands of members and dozens of volunteer staff. Arranged and negotiated corporate partnerships with data centers, service providers, public agencies and other organizations. Provided public relations guidance and development and IT development/management (from 2004-2008) and operational planning (2004-2010). Worked hands-on with the team to build the membership base as well as organize volunteers/members. Providing mentorship, coaching and collaborative support, I co-developed leadership roles with members to fully and effectively manage the various divisions of the organization.Established solid experience in writing public tutorials, handbooks and instructional material. Worked with vendors to integrate services, wrote and published PR and advertising material, and held regular staff meetings and public town halls. Developed a solid methodology to build customer loyalty and brand trust while developing the professional qualities and expectations of the staff. Worked hands on with services including maintaining RHEL and Debian based webservers, network security infrastructure, DDoS mitigation strategies, and developed web services in PHP.

Internet

Managed fully licensed VoIP using the Teamspeak platform, as well as website hosting to provide service for an international collection of customers. Successful in advertising, technical support and billing/customer care. Developed a solid background in HTML, PHP, CSS, mySQL and administering Debian and RHEL-based operating systems. Web hosting was provided through dedicated servers using cPanel/WHM to customers, with managed security and backup services.

Ai Programming With Python Nanodegree, Information Technology

Certificate In Business Analysis, Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate In Environmental Sciences, Renewable Resources And Conservation, 3.9 Gpa

Studied energy, electrical and engineering principles, project planning, principles in: (Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Geothermal, Wind Power.

Administration Essentials For Salesforce, Sales & Marketing

Computer Information Sciences