Eric Markle Email & Phone Number

Ashburn, Va

Responsible for the development and maintenance of the campus Enterprise Drupal 7 installation, currently hosting approximately 400 production sites. Lead developer working extensively with the External Relations team to evaluate, develop, and implement new features and functionality for all centrally managed Drupal 7 sites. Developer on high profile GWU sites www.gwu.edu, gwtoday.gwu.edu, calendar.gwu.edu, etc. • Built the current Enterprise GW IT Drupal 7 application from the ground up. Starting with 0 sites running on Drupal 7 in 2012, to our current count of almost 400 live production sites.• Lead developer and system administrator for the GW IT Enterprise Drupal 7 application.• Developed migration scripts, and migrated over 300 sites from our on-prem Drupal installation to Acquia Cloud Site Factory(ACSF) over a 3 month period.• Currently developing Drupal 8 platform to replace the current Drupal 7 platform. Drupal 7 EOL is slated for Nov 2022. • Develop migration scripts to automate the migration of Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 sites on the ACSF environment.• Evaluate, select, and install contributed Drupal modules.• Develop, design, and implement custom Drupal modules. • Accessibility remediation. • Plan and perform security and functionality updates for Drupal core and contributed modules.• Integrated Drupal with external systems, including Active Directory, RSAN, CourseLeaf, Salesforce, and Searchblox Enterprise Search. Developed custom modules to implement several of these features.• Built Continuous Integration pipelines using GITLab Pipelines and Jenkins that allowed us to implement faster and more stable code rollout. • Developed an automated testing framework that will allow us to build automated tests against Drupal builds to verify their stability before moving to production.• Manage the Jenkins Continuous Integration SAAS platform. Responsible for building CI jobs, managing plugin updates, and working with the vendor to verify system updates.

Responsible for the administration and maintenance of DotCMS, an open-source J2EE based content management system.Developed myGettysburg, an online community integrated with our public website and ERP systems, with a team of programmers. myGettysburg has over 5,000 registered alumni and over 17,000 prospective students since its inception.Created a tool using Coldfusion for the Parent Relations office that allows parent volunteers to track their correspondence with other parents for fundraising purposes.Perform CMS upgrades. Responsible for merging in-house changes with vendor supplied code, database changes, and organization of testing.Rewrote several Java applets using jQuery to improve user functionality.Integrated the CMS login with the campus portal and Active Directory.Assisted in the development of an interface between the CMS and NelNET QuickPay credit card processing.Developed a web front end for the campus emergency response system. Troubleshoot data loader issues between the campus portal and ERP systems.

Responsible for the management of several web servers on various platforms - Unix, Windows 2000 Server, and Linux - using Apache, Coldfusion Server, Tomcat, Perl, and CGI. Worked with the Public Relations office to develop structure and policies for the maintenance of the website and assisted Web Liaisons in maintenance and development of individual department websites.Built and maintained a public secure web server used to process credit card payments using Apache, OpenSSL, Coldfusion, and ActivePerl on Windows 2000 server.Member of the implementation team for the DotCMS content management system. Responsible for training end users how to develop webpages and use the content management system.Developed an interface for directory data between the public website and campus portal using XML(CFWDDX) and Coldfusion.Promoted to Network Applications Programmer/Web.

Responsible for the design, management, and maintenance of the county website. Developed a program to post real-time election results on the county website using Visual Foxpro.Constructed a database application using Perl to deliver assessment data to the web for searching.Built templates that merged accounting and payroll data into PDF format for check printing using the Objectif Lune PlanetPress suite.Responsible for account maintenance on a Wang VS system.

Supervised running, printing, and distributing reports for various county departments. Completed a major redesign of the County of York website. Worked with county departments to keep their websites updated.