• Created a smart search tool, using a combination of PostgreSQL standard and fuzzy string matching over multiple data sets, then sorting and filtering by relevance.• Leading US and offshore teams. This included coaching, training, co-coding, and code reviews. Working with PM, QA and BA teams for tech reviews, estimations, and running deployments.• Part of the architecture team that designed two UI tools, fifteen API microservices, a migration to OAuth, JSON API Spec, and off the legacy PHP Symfony infrastructure. Also, part of the development team leading the construction of several of these tools.• React Redux web applications, with MikroORM API middleware, for the financial industry.• Architected, built, and coordinated the integration of a tool for automatically detecting vulnerable or out-of-date package dependencies. Then built a GitHub Actions queuing system for seamlessly integrating that workflow into the team’s existing SDLC and CI/CD workflow.• Authored and updated many developer standards and application documentation files.• SDLC and CI/CD workflow using sprints, timed estimates, daily scrums, sprint plannings, sprint retros, documentation, Jira, Git, GitHub Actions, Team City, Octopus, with AWS EC2 and S3 for Dev, QA, UAT, Demo, and Prod environments; with certified project managers.

• React.js with Redux Sagas, using Webpack and Node.js for an Employee Compensation Patient Treatment Management and Billing System.• Created many API endpoints in WSO2 Middleware for MSSQL database backend.• Created many MSSQL Stored Procedures using Liquibase for continual CD/CI deployment.• SDLC and CI/CD workflow using sprints, story points, estimations, daily scrums, sprint plannings, sprint retros, documentation, Jira, Git, Crucible, with AWS EC2 for Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod environments; with certified scrum master.

• Built several web-based software development projects in lumber and logistics industries, using PHP Symfony, MySQL, and extending/integrating with the legacy PHP framework.• Managed multiple server clusters.• Single bare metal cabinet at 1102 Grand in Kansas City: Load balancers, web servers, database servers, file servers, firewall and networking in IPv4.• Two AWS clusters: EC2, RDS, SES, Route53, S3, EBS, Security Groups, AMIs, RIs, etc.• Five smaller Linode clusters: Compute with IPv4 and IPv6, Objects, Domains, and Firewalls.• Migrated each client and asset from bare metal cluster in Kansas City to the cloud clusters.

• Programming and Database projects for several internal web applications for email and SMS marketing and drip campaigns.• Created curriculum and taught a well-received MySQL 101 training for a non-technical audience.• Created over three-dozen, highly optimized, MySQL Stored Procedures to speed up slow reports, for tables with millions of rows.

• Multiple projects geared toward maintaining a legacy PHP and Java software platform that approves, underwrites, and manages loans• Rebuild of several data resources as API endpoints using WSO2 and using SOA methodology.• SDLC and CI/CD workflow using sprints, story points, estimations, daily scrums, sprint plannings, sprint retros, documentation, Jira, Git, Crucible, with AWS EC2 for Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod environments; with certified scrum master.

• Built the integration layer between the client’s retail ecommerce website and their internal sales software and 4D database, then created a customer portal for wholesale authentication, sales, and order history.• Telephone and email website hosting support for a custom LAMP cluster and another cluster on AWS using Parallels / Plesk for webservers, RDS for MySQL and several linux CLI-only servers.• Setup multi-store Magento environment for The Kansas City Star Stores.

• Direct manager for the department and the team of web designers, developers, and a sys-admin; as the company changed ownership three times in 2.5 years.• Improved team stability and moral, while aligning and improving the development practices.• Adopted code version management for a crew that deployed using standard FTP on live environments.• Oversaw and integrated several security measures for Linux and Windows server cluster, databases, and PHP environments, to filter and block brute force attacks, malicious file uploads, SQL injection, etc.• Oversaw a heavy redesign and restructure for each of the company’s proprietary SaaS applications.• Built out a mobile web-app for a fire suppression client, recreating their proprietary, math-heavy algorithm for on-site estimations.

• Built a native Windows application; using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; to fake a demo of a web-based application, which the client’s offshore development company had not yet finished. This demo showed the outer website, the login panel, the ecommerce functionality, faked the email alerts, the receipt popup, and the administrator reports. This was used by the client to make the sale to a major credit card company.• Built a database migration script to migrate and convert a data-heavy Drupal application to an Evergreen (Ruby-esque) application. This cut the original developer’s time by 90% and increased its stability.• Built several HTML/CSS landing pages and email templates for high profile clients.

• Built out several CRUD tools for managing customers, truckers, vendors, mills, and products. • Built out a vendor portal interface for managing lumber production through the sawmill, the kiln, the planer, for inventory management and for several aspects of shipping the product.• Build out a customer portal interface for managing orders and tracking shipments.• Build out a trucker portal allowing truckers to dispatch their own loads. The key piece was an algorithm that factored the trucker’s trust and needs to keep truckers from booking more loads than appropriate.• Built out a logistics system, integrated with the lumber sales data, which scaled the number of loads a dispatcher could reasonably handle by 1200%, As a result, the department grew and became an independent company.• Built out several custom admin reports using MySQL Stored Procedures and Google Charts.• Built a notification system using Twilio for SMS alerts, Amazon AWS SES and SparkPost for SMTP email delivery, with a queuing and a logging system.• Built a custom chat application using JavaScript, PHP acting as an API, and MySQL.• Built out a lumber trading software for wholesale lumber traders as a SaaS tech startup, which was launched at a national convention.