In April 2018, I started Isaac Friedman Consulting LLC to continue my Software Engineer Contract Work.

MCS is a small synagogue in midtown Manhattan with a lean staff passionate about bringing it into the 21st century. That makes me a very broad generalist with duties including:* Running network cable* Hiring day laborers* Fundraising* Supervising renovations* Making purchasing recommendations* Participating in the renovations themselves* Website Development* General IT* Doing double duty as the Assistant Rabbi (conducting services, teaching classes, one-on-one mentoring, etc.)

I worked as an independent contractor with a wide-ranging practice focusing on web development. My clients have included nonprofits like the National Coalition for Shelter, and Cue College. Some projects I’ve worked on include:• Custom API integrations in Python: Written two scripts to allow different eCommerce platforms to serve as course catalogs for Canvas LMS; the script for Shopify is already on my github. The scripts are written in Python but I’ve learned just enough Ruby to work with Shopify as well.• Joomla! – I maintained a Joomla! website which included custom modifications to templates in PHP for the photo gallery and blog tools. I still maintain this site in my Director of Operations role.• Wordpress sites for nonprofit with backend – I’ve built and/or maintained several WordPress sites, including developing themes.• Custom website maintenance – Hotfixes and updates in HTML/CSS for sites that have not yet switched to more modern platforms• One on One Office IT lessons – Some of my clients have been using computers for years without being truly comfortable with them. I have a successful track record of helping people become more proficient at the computing tasks they do every day as well as writing clear instructions from technical documentation to illustrated guides to Microsoft Word’s formatting tools.Some websites I have managed, developed, or worked on include:-www.cuecollege.org-www.ncsinc.org-www.centerforreturn.org-www.millinerycs.org

At Millward Brown, I was on the team that developed all products including my niche – the internal company software suite. My stack was PHP, JavaScript, Apache, Ubuntu, PL/SQL. Some of my work included:• Modernized and sped up the project management workflow.• Responsible for all of my projects from requirements-gathering sessions with executives to “in the wild testing” with the employees who used them.• Was responsible for development of new utilities from start to finish, requirements gathering to final tests.• Created tables and wrote procedures for a 4 node Oracle cluster.• Responsible for Access Control to the company’s New York data center• Created and deployed VMWare virtual machines• Integrated Doubleclick API with our system (lead maintainer)• Saved the company $23k a month by auditing our AWS and other infrastructure expenditures

Provided miscellaneous tech support for three home/small business clients.Created backups, configured home networks, recommended software andsimilar tasks. System administrator and webmaster for EPC(http://www.emergencycareny.com/.) Responsible for keeping software and hardware up to date on approximately 10 workstations and updating the static website.