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Created Laravel api batch payments application.Worked on in-house fundraiser and advocacy platform.

Greater New York City Area

PHP and database developer for 6 websites which include www.readbrightly.comTechnical lead for the suite of 250 author websites Mentor to 2 junior colleaguesRecent work has included: creating an api rest framework to provide data to applications back and frontends; creating an OO Product / Book framework to provide plug and play functionality for various applications; and creating a scheduled job to automate the UnboundWorld's SciFi character Cage MatchTechnologies: PHP, Wordpress, MySQL, AWS, GIT, Redis, Docker, Linux, Akamai, New Relic, composer, Grunt

Greater New York City Area

Perform maintenance and upgrades to the company's workflow applicationTechnologies: CakePHP, AngularJS, Ruby

Develop, maintain and support web applicationsPHP Created 3 new applications.Maintain 15 applications including one of the university’s main applications Learning Management System (LMS)Contribute code fixes and blocks to the LMS, working with our vendor and also Moodle HQ.Contribute PHP modules and classes to my team’s common library and to create an MVC style framework for our applications, including database, reporting and user management modules, a test framework, and application classes.JAVASupported and then migrated 3 JAVA applications to our PHP/PostgreSQL suite. PostgreSQL Am an Enterprise DB Certified Postgres Plus 9.0 Associate and completed the Advanced PostgresSQL Administration training.Create new database schemas, write functions and triggers, look at query optimization. Write sql of medium complexity, maintain sql of high complexity. Unix Our PHP and Java applications run on Linux. Strengthening my Unix skills, working with such commands as man, sudo, su, grep, find, diff, vi, ftp, patch, locate, scp, ssh, time, top, ps, zgrep. Run cronjobs, interrogate log files, and use GIT for Moodle development. jQuery/Web Use many of the jQuery tools for our web applications such as ajax, autocomplete, datepicker, impromptu, dataTables, tabs, cluetip, blueimp fileupload. Work with css stylesheet files and html pages.Open Source Contribute code and discussion points to Moodle, particularly, https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-32888. Others included MDL-17783, MDL-39726 and CONTRIB-4273.Web Servers Work with Apache HTTP Server. Worked with Apache Tomcat.

Develop, support and maintain JAVA web applicationsOne of two developers who created a Loan Fees Web calculator.One of a team of developers who created a Loan Document applicationFor 5 years, part of the production support team who maintained and supported the Internet Banking application, including writing new classes to process redraws, new classes and batch jobs to process international transactions, and performing the actual release of new versions to our national clientele. This Internet Banking application won best Internet Banking application in Australia in 2005.OracleResponsible for writing new SQL needed by the applicationsUnix Java applications ran on Unix, wrote and ran scripts including BASH, sed, awk. Web Servers Work with WebSphere

Cobol ProgrammerTested cobol programs to ensure Y2K compliance.Wrote new cobol programs to perform new retail banking tasks.Delphi ProgrammerDeveloper and supported several banking applications running on Delphi.