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Website developer and Small business technical solutions professional specializing in website development, strategy and consulting designed to increase your business productivity, automation, efficiency, processes and systems.

• corrected SSL issue on Linux server hosting their website• upgraded PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress on the server

• Implemented a real-time PDF generation system for Acuperfect Websites, dynamically incorporating client business data from a MySQL database• Developed the architectural framework for storing and retrieving customer data and integrating with the MySQL database.• Client used the PDF newsletters to sell to their customers branded with the customers' information• Made pdf newsletter system searchable through custom parameters• Added metric tracking to the Wordpress database to track how often individual newsletters are downloaded• Added download limiting system to Wordpress to limit the number of downloads each customer gets

• migrated CalAuctions website to a new server• connected Wordpress site in kubernetes container• helped monitoring server and solving issues as they arose

• Created 4 different Financial Calculators that display on a Wordpress page• Customer provided the formulas• Calculators display results in real time

• Implemented a music file management system integrating WordPress, Dropbox, and WooCommerce APIs• Developed a Custom Post Type in WordPress to track music file information for audio uploaded to the system• Architected a backend system to handle the background transmission of music files to Dropbox• connected systems so files uploaded to Dropbox.com display in client Wordpress site

• Transformed client design documents into a custom WordPress theme with responsive design• Created a dynamic multiple-choice quiz in PHP which provided instant results upon pressing "Enter"• Connected links to Amazon for book selling• Wrote a podcast displayer in PHP which connected to an external podcasting platform and displayed podcasts dynamically on the client's site

• Redesigned client website according to Photoshop files given as reference• Created method to easily upload legal documents to the site• Connected links to Calendly for legal appointments• Transferred site to new hosting and administered the site, solving issues that arose

• Maintained and monitored 2 Windows 2000 supercomputer clusters of 256 nodes each. This involved daily submission of jobs to the clusters, troubleshooting issues, removal of faulty nodes and configuration of the replacement nodes• Put together a cluster of 256 computers used as a backup cluster and got it up and running• Installed and administered a Linux Web server running SuSE Linux used for an intranet based web system• Created and implemented a database solution to keep track of system IP addresses and functions utilized in the Supercomputer as well as keeping track of problem systems and available systems. This system was created using PHP and MySQL to interface to the database and used Perl scripts written in both Linux and Windows to get the relevant information from each computer in the cluster• Created PHP programs to automate monitoring of the various clusters• Created UNIX shell scripts to perform various maintenance tasks• Created Perl scripts to perform various maintenance tasks and to automate various tasks

• Created software based interfaces between different financial systems• Created UNIX shell script based programs to process financial data passed between different companies’ systems• Analyzed the security of the UNIX system and provided solutions to possible security holes in the system.• Presented reasons for using Perl as the scripting language of choice as opposed to Korn shell and demonstrated the ease of use when compared to similar scripts in Korn shell. Translated Korn shell scripts to Perl and began integrating them into the existing system.