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As a self proprietor, and the only employeed, I was responsible for everything from start to finish, including but not limited to: acquiring leads, customers, managing relationships, collecting project scopes, providing estimates, building and designing all websites, database management, disaster recovery, backups, etc.

Part of a highly successful Agile team, responsible for a wide range of applications in support of over 15 million page views per month and millions in revenue. Primarily designed and built custom modules using Drupal 7 with PHP 5.4 and Maria DB, however, daily tasks required advance usage of Drupal Admin, Drush, MariaDB, many contributed Modules, and by enhancing code in existing custom modules. Very fast paced environment where innovation, problem solving, and a wide range of modalities and skills were required to be successful.Highlights:* Successfully designed and built a module to manage 1000's of Youtube and Wistia videos, using concurrency for fast transactions.* Streamlined and debugged many existing modules and code in an effort to improve the overall customer experience.

Contract employee for businesses and entrepreneurs to provide high quality, efficient software solutions for their very specialized needs.Highlights:* Successfully accomplished projects through proven application development life cycles using OOP PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, Photoshop (G.I.M.P.), Wordpress, Drupal, my own custom framework, and SEO best practices.* Successfully accomplished many different endeavors through persistence, attention to detail and use of interpersonal communication.

Successfully fulfilled the roll of a Web Developer with an emphasis in marketing, sales reporting, site logistics, server administration, site performance and finally CRM customization. I implemented the use of the developmental life cycle to the development team, enhancing the overall stability of the site and re-usability of code. I contributed code to, and reviewed code from the development team to ensure it was bug free and ready for the production environment. Monitored server performance, constantly searching for bottlenecks and streamlining code to improve performance. Backed up and restored databases, migrated and normalized data, and worked with Regular Expressions daily.Highlights:* Greatly improved the efficiency and stability of both the Apache and MySQL servers through optimization of queries, code and server configurations; creating a much faster and more reliable e-commerce website; resulting in increased sales and greater customer satisfaction.* Reduced frequently occurring site errors to almost none through the use of strict coding practices, and the code review of fellow developers. Successfully accomplished projects through proven application development life cycles using OOP PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, Photoshop and SEO best practices.

Freelanced any computer internet work available while going through college. Helped small businesses and individuals alike to tackle computer building, networking, built small programs to improve work flow.

Successfully rebuilt their existing web site from the ground up, including an inventory management solution, which increased their online presence, increased sales, and provided a solid foundation for their web based store front.This custom e-commerce solution included management of hundreds of products, orders, all inventory and sales

Successfully accomplished projects through proven application development life cycles using Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop and SEO best practices.; Created a data management system for thousands of cows using RFID Technology allowing for the reading, monitoring and alerting of cow temperatures, drastically reducing costs for medical efforts, quality control of milk,and the prediction of estrus.Highlights:* Successfully developed, tested and debugged many applications; some integrating with larger pre-existing solutions using Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, VC++ 6.0, ActionScript, Flash, Photoshop.

Responsible for layout, filming, editing, digital film processing, blue screen editing, compression and exportation of video to various formats for their Police Training videos publication.Highlights:* Implemented new methods which increased the quality of the video and greatly reduced the processingtime, through the use of automation; decreasing overall labor costs and increasing production volumes usingAdobe Premiere 6.5 and related technologies.

Provided top tier technical support for ALL aspects of Microsoft Windows 98. Promoted to Analyst A2 after six months, and then to the Office Products and Gaming division after 12 months.Highlights:* Awarded for the highest score on the Microsoft Certification Test out of approx 500 analysts.* Commended for writing helpful, thorough technical documents related to support of Windows 98.* Successfully supported thousands of Microsoft consumers with a very high success to failure ratio.