- Implemented a custom payment gateway for processing wire payments (cheque payments) for a donation platform (https://www.givegreen.com/) that runs on top of Drupal Commerce 2 (Drupal 10). A mix of Drupal API calls, Custom Drupal Modules and a new VUE.js module was implemented in order to achieve this. - Maintainer of SShop (https://www.drupal.org/project/sshop), which is a Drupal 9/10 theme configured for Commerce and based on Bootstrap 3. Applied many changes such as migration from Gulp.js to “Dart sass” which greatly simplified the build and stability of our sass process. Applied many SASS and JS enhancements and optimizations.- Performed upgrades on Drupal Contrib modules maintained by us (OPTASY Inc) in order to make them ready to be used in Drupal 9 and Drupal 10 sites.- Developed a GET/POST REST API endpoints on a Drupal 9 site that was used as a backend for a mobile application for foodies and restaurant owners.- Giving misc support on legacy Drupal 7/8 sites: Security updates, theme changes, views changes, new custom modules when needed.- Worked on integration of a Google SpreadSheet (that contained coordinates and data of one of our customers) with the Google Maps API in order to display client’s information in an interactive manner.- I provide misc Drupal support for our clients on a daily basis.

- Created new Drupal 7/8/9/10 custom themes (Bootstrap5 and Zen Sub-themes) following the PSD/AI wireframes/design.- Built a Drupal 8 site from scratch for the Canadian Association of Optometrists (https://opto.ca/) a custom theme was implemented for this site (Bootstrap 5 Sub-theme and custom SASS/Javascript modules for the frontend). Built a few custom Drupal modules for the Eye Health Library and Find a Doc tools for finding optometrists country-wide. Site maintenance (security and functionality updates).- Performed security updates on our client’s Drupal sites (Drupal Core and contributed modules). - Created a custom Drupal 8 gateway payment system for handling the online donations for the Beechwood Cemetery (https://beechwoodottawa.ca/en/donation), this custom module was built on top of the Drupal Commerce 2 API subsystem. - Performed site upgrades from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9/10 by applying core and contrib upgrades (composer), custom patches when needed and re-factoring of custom modules.- Provided IT/DevOps Support to the company’s Linux server that hosted many of the client’s websites: applied security packages, security policies and performance enhancements, day-to-day tasks, created new accounts/service configuration to host new site clients, server integration with the Gitlab pipelines. - Maintained our Git repository (hosted on Gitlab) for our projects, implemented Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for deployment of the code/theme changes to the live-stage sites.

- I was part of a development team who built the CNIB site (https://www.cnib.ca/en) , helped the UX experts in implementing some of their suggestions in the theme system, and also lots of UX enhancements for ensuring compliance with the WCAG 2.0 AA standard. - Created custom Drupal 7/8 modules for additional functionality requested by clients.- Helped in developing custom mobile-first themes on Drupal 8 following the modular design approach, applied custom styling with CSS3/SASS, implemented custom Twig template files for the special layouts. set-up custom JavaScript/jQuery code for UX enhancements.- Made contributions on patches for bugs or feature requests for Drupal.org core and contrib modules (https://www.drupal.org/openconcept-consulting-inc).- Put special effort in making websites to be WCAG 2.0 AA compliant: Changes on the HTML structure to make sure the pages are accessible and readable by screen readers (JAWS/NVDA).

- I helped migrated old HTML4 sites from the Faculty of Medicine at uOttawa to the newer Drupal 7 platform customized by the IT Department of uOttawa (HTML5 + CSS3): https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-medicine/- Followed SEO and WCAG 2.0 AA Accessibility standards on migrated sites, specially for content that are both in French and English.- Validated sites against the Ontario Accessibility Checker (https://www.aoda.ca/) and applied fixes as requested.- Added custom CSS and HTML code for each one of the migrated sites, if needed, but following the uOttawa's corporate styles and layouts.- Assisted Faculty staff for updates in their websites.- Fixed accessibility issues in PDF and WORD files, by making sure that such documents will be read by screen readers.

Tasks performed in this contract: deploying JAVA and PHP applications, 24/7 support for the ministers' applications, generating usage reports, managing the LDAP platform (performing optimizations, upgrades, generating usage statistics, taking down users and creating users), supporting the mail system, solving incidentes in JBOSS, Tomcat and Apache.

During this period of time I had the job of doing development for many Web projects in this company. I wrote Drupal Modules in PHP for many of the company's clients that required custom code for their sites (based mainly in Drupal 7 and Drupal 8). I wrote a set of modules that enabled SSO between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 sites (with HTTPS). I wrote simple HTML5/jQuery websites for advertising campaigns. I did some refactoring of many existing projects in AngularJS/Java/C#.I worked with AWS for setting the infrastructure needed for our webservices, using many for their services: EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS and CloudFront,

I had the responsibility of managing more than 20+ Unix/Linux servers located in two datacenters in Bogota, Colombia. I worked with HP-UX (11.11) / Solaris (10) / Red Hat Linux systems (6+). I performed various tasks related with the administration of Unix/Linux systems: Installing upgrades/security patches, logical volume management, setting up RAIDs, monitoring CPU / I/O / Memory performance and applying security directives.

This was a short time job I took while I was waiting for a more permanent job. I was in charge of developing various modules for the website of a popular radio station in Colombia, Bluradio. This website was based in Drupal 7, and I developed some modules with the idea to make the online radio signal available in many devices (iOS/BlackBerry/Android). I used many techniques in HTML5 / JavaScript / PHP to achieve the goal.

• My initial duty was to assist in deploying new changes to the main newspager’s website: https://eltiempo.com • Performed simple tasks such as setting up apache servers, deploying PHP applications, doing load testing on PHP applications, installing/upgrading/deleting packages, debugging PHP applications delivered by contractors and other tasks. • Applied requested theming/styling changes to Drupal 6/7 portals as requested by the client: 1. Portafolio (https://portafolio.co): We launched an initial release of this site (Drupal 7), applied performance enhacements to make it more scalable given the amount of requests for this site. 2. ALO Mujeres (https://alo.co): Launched an initial Drupal 7 site, deployed this site cross our farm of Linux servers. Custom functionality as requested by the company. • Implemented Apache Ant (https://ant.apache.org/) tasks to deploy code/features changes to Drupal 7 sites from the codebase (hosted in a SVN repository). • Created reports from different database engines (Oracle, MySQL). • Made legacy sites more performant with Redis / Varnish / Memcached. • Gave 7/24 support for the infrastructure.