Joe Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Memphis, Tn, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

West Lafayette, Indiana, Us

* Maintain Organization Finances, Nonprofit Filings* Marketing efforts, sponsorship coordination with events to promote awareness and research* Facilitate speaker at corporate/public/private events focused on mental health* Administer annual "Mental Health in Tech" research of mental health in the tech industry

Facilitate and Organize community technical events such as User Group meetups, Super User Group Meetups, GiveCamp Memphis, HACKmemphis, etc.

Freelance Contractor for various PHP development projects and system administration jobs. Contract based work.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

Preteckt offers cloud-based vehicle prognostics powered by AI to support all fleet vehicle types while delivering the world. At Preteckt a Principal Software Engineer is responsible for the operation and maintenance of Linux and Kubernetes clusters. The role oversees ETL workflows, Machine Learning model training and inference services, and custom Django application scaled to support enterprise customers. Responsibilities include day to day service management, reporting, and auditing while supporting a team of data scientists and engineers in data engineering orchestration and operation of data warehouse systems to facilitate data access across multiple teams.Responsibilities* Comprehensive Linux system administration, configuration, provisioning utilizing Ansible, Pulumi and other infrastructure as code based tooling.* Extensive experience in building robust and highly available services on maintainable public and private cloud environments.* Responsible for mentoring and leveling up coworkers and coop student interns on a variety of engineering subjects related to service orchestration at enterprise scale with a focus on continuous learning and development.* Build, optimize, and debug GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.* Maintain and expand implementation of ArgoCD to manage applications in Kubernetes* Work extensively within SOC 2 compliance planning and audit preparation.* Maintain service observability and logging with DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana to monitor production and staging environments and to alert on issues.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Primarily responsible for managing the development team working on SimpleChurchCRM. SimpleChurchCRM is a full-featured church management software as a service product focusing on empowering ministries to improve outreach, increase involvement of their congregations, and manage their church events, membership, and financials via an online platform. Worked with stakeholders and product focused team members to schedule release timelines, coordinate work among teams in the company to integrate technologies into other company-owned platforms.Technologies & Workflows:* PHP 5.x & 7.x, MySQL 5.7, Amazon Aurora* CentOS 6/7 / Ubuntu 18.04/ Amazon Linux 2* Atlassian products (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Pipelines, Confluence, etc)* JavaScript (jQuery & ES 5 primarily)* NodeJS & Redis for Child Checkin feature* Microsoft Azure & Amazon Web ServicesOther Duties:* Architecting new features into legacy code base (including infrastructure)* Solving customer problems with code and a strong focus on value and customer needs.* Mentoring and coaching direct reports* Managing software development processes* Managing sprint planning, Git flow, releases, code reviews* Agile/SCRUM responsibilities for running meetings, sprint planning.

New York, Ny, Us

Works on Custom CMS platform team serving internal clients such as Engadget, Aol.com, Huffington Post, and many others on the multi tenant platform. Develops solutions for clients to take advantage of CMS, API, and site building tools. Built internal tools and implemented bug fixes in large scale PHP applications and added functionality to legacy applications.

New York, New York, Us

* Maintain client applications* Develop new functionality for existing applications

Memphis, Tn, Us

* Maintain, Modernize, Develop legacy web applications* Maintain, Modernize, Develop proprietary Content Management System (CMS)* Develop custom applications based on proprietary CMS.* Implement and develop solutions using 3rd party APIs.* Document best practices, guide fellow developers in implementation.* Develop / Coordinate best development practices.* Develop / Test / Implement server environments* Develop / Test development environments.* Administer live, development server environments.Job Requirements:* Expertise in HTML, CSS,PHP/MySQL* Experience with Javascript and Javascript based frameworks such as jQuery* An understanding of SEO-friendly, CSS-based layouts that adhere to W3C standards* Highly organized and detail oriented, with strong problem solving skillswork independently or collaboratively, prioritize tasks and maintain deadlines* Graphic design implementation experience and familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite* Strong working knowledge developing cross platform/browser compatibility (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) for dynamic web applications* A strong value for web standards, accessibility, and user experience* Actively driven to keep up with forward-thinking technologies (CSS3, HTML5, API’s, etc.)* Linux Server Administration

Administer 35 retail web sites retailing various hair care / hair loss products. Maintaining 200+ related domains. System Admin, Tech Support, Linux Admin, Web App programming. MySQL Administration. Email Marketing management.• Designed and implemented MySQL database connectivity to an aging Perl shopping cart system Quikstore.• Created Database backend systems for order management and customer relations management using designed web frontends and Microsoft Access frontend applications.• Create and maintain retail and informational websites with a significant focus on Search Engine Optimization and Marketing using HTML, PHP, MySQL and Perl• General tech support for all departments. • Maintain 35 retail website stores operating individually through a centralized custom built order management system. Develop individual solutions to unique problems.• Responsible for email marketing campaigns, managing email lists and contact preferences for over 40,000 customers.• Maintain and Support OpenVZ based Virtualization Environment for local database and file servers using ProxmoxVE and Debian/Ubuntu Linux.• Deploy customized version of OpenCart PHP/MySQL shopping cart system to upgrade aging Quikstore Perl shopping cart. Develop custom scripts to interchange data between OpenCart and existing shipping and order management systems.