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Software consulting, website development.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for driving the technical architecture, software development and solutions for Janssen's digital platforms. Responsible for leading scoping and software development efforts for Pharma projects, including the Fusion web platform, Janssen's Content Repository, integrations with Saas/PaaS capabilities, as well as driving DevOps automation efforts for release management and testing. Steer teams towards development standards and best practices.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Design and develop and/or find and evaluate Drupal-based solutions which can apply across multiple web properties and scale to multi-millions of page-views per day.

Design, develop, maintain, administer, and host custom-designed, SEO-optimized, primarily using the “LAMP” stack and the Drupal content management system. Work with clients to create site specifications and look & feel, develop site information architecture. Work with designers to create required graphics.Contribute patches to Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 core. Contribute core documentation for Drupal 8, 7, and 6. Created the “Embedded Google Docs Viewer” contributed Drupal module.

New York, Ny

Responsible for development and maintenance of www.economist.com Drupal code to reconcile print and digital subscriptions with website subscriptions. Create/maintain REST APIs for use by Economist business partners. Develop code to insert targeted advertising on the site’s pages using Google DART and Varnish ESI’s. Responsible for technical screening/interviews for developer candidates. Member/daily participant in two project Scrums.

New York, Ny

Responsibe for the Time For Kids website (www.timeforkids.com) over several release cycles. Projects included migration from Drupal 7.9 to Drupal 7.14, addition of several new site functions (TFK Store, TFK Kid Reporter), as well as evaluating/improving site performance and ongoing site maintenance

Herndon, Va

Wrote the technical sections of a response to an RFP for a very large software contract offered for bid by the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs.

Architect/Develop/Test/Implement/Support J2EE applications to facilitate various aspects of the food import and distribution business.

Improved and added functionality, as well as providing on-going technical support, for CNT’s Enterprise Manager software for fibre-channel switches and storage directors.

Productized an IP-network research toolset, allowing Avaya better to assess their customers’ network readiness for, and to facilitate sales of, Avaya’s VOIP systems.

Analyzed, documented, and re-coded (where necessary) the Java-based Netfolio system, a high-transaction Web-based system providing stock trading, investment information, and investment advice.

Architect and Sr Developer for DoTell Interactive(tm), a software suite allowing easy, secure Web publishing of audio content using only a touch-tone telephone.

Analyzed, documented, and re-coded (where necessary) the Netfolio system, a high-transaction Web-based system providing stock trading, investment information, and investment advice.

Architected a prototype E-Commerce system. Enhanced the experimental Web Object Manager web server.

Created a CRM system to easily manage both clients and their clients’ websites

Created customer-facing web applications as well as associated back-end processing for full-text searching of wire-service news feeds, encyclopedias, restaurant and travel guides, forum posts, and financial data.

Education record

B.A., English / Computer Science