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I started The ZDS Group as a sister company to Ziquid Design Studio, LLC, to focus on Drupal and Web development and similar technologies. The ZDS Group is the right brain to the left-brained Ziquid Design Studio.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

We make mobile games. Currently our two best are Uprising: St. Louis and Celestial Glory.

New York, New York , Us

Full-stack Drupal Developer responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of two CBS Television Distribution web sites, ETOnline.com (Entertainment Tonight) and InsideEdition.com. Updated mobile, tablet, and desktop advertising placement. Integrated taxonomy into existing content-based landing pages. Audited RSS feeds and edited underlying Views and PHP code for W3C RFC compliance. Audited AMP HTML and edited underlying PHP and JS code for AMP project compliance. Updated six custom Drupal themes and ten custom Drupal modules and created three new Drupal modules, totaling 63,000 lines of code. Integrated Vue- and React-based front ends to Drupal back end.

Greenfield, Wi, Us

Architect and Full-stack Drupal Developer responsible for the front-end technical architecture, launch, and maintenance of the Everbrite Customer Portal. Integrated custom forms with proprietary back-end REST APIs using the JSON data format. Created forms for user acquisition, authentication, sales, and reporting.

Reston, Va, Us

Full-stack Drupal Developer responsible for the maintenance of four government web sites, including SAMHSA.gov. Integrated custom code with third-party search engine. Planned SOLR migration. Updated SCSS, Moustache templates to match new look-and-feel designs. Updated navigation code to provide Section 508 compliance.

Hamilton, Bm

Full-stack Drupal Developer responsible for the launch and maintenance of Hiscox.com, the main web site for the US arm of the company. Supported the web site from pre-launch through start of Phase 2 development.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Currently I work for Turner Broadcasting on the Draco (DRupal Application COre) team to provide a standard set of Drupal modules for all of the different Turner brands (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, BOOM, NBA, NCAA, etc.) to use.

Austin , Tx, Us

Working with PHP and Drupal to extend the reach of TheInstitutes.org and their portfolio of web sites.

New York, Ny, Us

I'm the Drupal Tech Lead on one of the many Time, Inc. projects to convert their many web sites to Drupal. Currently I am working on converting Travel and Leisure magazine's website, travelandleisure.com, to Drupal. Hopefully more will follow.I'm the only Drupal resource on-site for this particular project, so I also help out with the Drupal architecture and requirements gathering. I expect to be coding, as well, which I do enjoy.contracted via MindTree/Reveille.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Drupal Architect overseeing TWC's conversion of www.weather.com to Drupal. The roadmap has already been created and development is underway, so my primary focus is to ensure that it goes off without a hitch.Weather.com is currently ranked #19 in the United States in terms of traffic, just behind PayPal and just ahead of WordPress and Instagram, so this is a big project. I'm excited to be a part of it.

Lawrenceville, Ga, Us

Working with some great people at NovoLogic, doing Drupal development for an internal site for Chick-Fil-A. My job is to help ensure that Chick-Fil-A operators and team members get the content and training they need to succeed.

Us

Contract Drupal developer on PGA.com. I worked on integrating a sister site, PlayGolfAmerica.com, into the main PGA.com site, as well as creating the front-end to the new search functionality, based on Apache SOLR.The new Play Golf America portal has some pretty cool social media integration, including the ability to find your existing Facebook friends who play golf and ask them to teach you how to play the game, and following and interacting with both PlayGolfAmerica and PGA Professionals on Twitter. Both of these used their respective Javascript APIs, with Drupal driving the back-end.

Tampa, Florida, Us

I helped SYKES revamp their Intranet properties, collectively called ConnectSYKES. The existing site was functional, but not friendly nor pretty. I took desktop-sized PSDs from their graphics designer and turned them into fully-functional (and pretty!) Desktop, Tablet, and Smartphone sites using responsive design. I created a completely new front-end, a new portal system, and Facebook-like collaborative/social engagement features, all on Drupal.I also moved their videos into the cloud (Amazon CloudFront) so that they would be more accessible to employees all over the world and ensured that the videos played correctly on ten different desktop OS/Browser combinations and twenty different mobile OS/Browser combinations, using a combination of HTML5 and Flash.

Austin , Tx, Us

I worked for Drupal Connect building more Drupal web sites! I worked on CGAP for the World Bank (www.cgap.org), Guess Watches (www.guesswatches.com), USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (www.fas.usda.gov), and more.CGAP was a fully-responsive D7 site, and is the one of which I am the most proud. I like the fact that it is aimed at helping upgrade the financial situation of poorer people in 3rd-world countries.Guess Watches was a fast-paced D6 -> D7 conversion with a total theme update; I was responsible for updating a dozen or so custom modules to the D7 API, including rewriting the DB API as DBTNG and reworking the theming using the Render API.FAS was a purely consultative engagement; I recommended Drupal to fit their requirements, but did not perform any coding. They have since implemented Drupal, so I guess they took my recommendations!

Washington, Dc, Us

I helped the Dept of Education incorporate Web 2.0 technology into their www.ed.gov web site using Drupal and other LAMP applications. As an architect, I design the overall solution and oversee the implementation from the technology side. I am also able to get my hands dirty and do some coding, which I greatly enjoy.I managed nine major releases in a twelve-month period and stayed on for another 15 months to maintain the new site.The contract was through ActioNet.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Coded a cool web site for Turner Broadcasting/CNN called CNNGo (http://www.cnngo.com/). It's Drupal-based with 123 modules! Lots and lots of coding involved (PHP/LAMP).This site has since been folded into travel.cnn.com.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Product Manager for Web Site, DocumentationManaged 200 requirements from internal teams for customer-facing site generating millions of hits per month, supporting more than 10,000 customersManaged content & placement of 150 technical documents, created 150 new documentsIncreased weekly documentation output by 75% in nine monthsPackaged 120 software products in six weeks for dissemination to customers (previous efforts to create 350 packages had taken 3 man years)

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Documented all Lycoris technology and advised on best practices for integration into Mandriva productsAuthored 60 page functional specification and style guide for enhancement of user interfaceAdvised regarding technical aspects to provide transition appeal of Lycoris users moving to MandrivaManaged all marketing activities in the United StatesOnly American member of seven-person advisory committee responsible for planning future productsOne of only two consultants to be hired in the United States for Mandriva in 2005

Created Linux-based Operating System for the home market; became both corporate and technical leadDirectly responsible for technical and high-level vision and architecture; led development and QA efforts, technical support, manufacturing, and fulfillmentPersonally hired every employee and managed 90 volunteers across the worldDrove initiatives which led to partnerships with Wal-Mart, Toshiba, AMD, VIA, Vivitar, Nikon, Olympus, United Online, Bitstream, many othersPerformed exit strategy through sale of technical assets to Mandriva S.A.Founding member of 19-firm Desktop Linux Consortium

Managed Pacific Northwest Regional Professional Services office, only billable consultant to additionally manage an officeCreated new Linux distribution for Informix Software by enhancing existing Mandrake Linux to give it better database performance than competing distributionsSubject Matter expert tasked with documenting the Apache Web Server API and how to install and administrate the Sendmail Mail Transfer AgentWeb Content Designer tasked with documenting for IBM all patches provided in the Linux kernel by leading Linux distributions (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, etc.)Managed 12-member team responsible for creating new remote managed services project

Founder and President. Linux consulting, maintained Linux Knowledge Base. Acquired by Linuxcare Dec 1999.

Madrid, Es

Managed consultant laptops, mixed NetWare / Windows NT network.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Network and Systems Tester for network operating systems: NetWare, UNIX, Linux.

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