Web application development with enhanced AMP pages.

• Tasked to organize and optimize various existing web properties and applications with responsibilities including researching solutions and determining the best tools and approaches to complete jobs successfully while communicating effectively with management.• Google Merchant, Adwords & Tag Manager administration & management.• Search Engine Optimization via HTML Meta Tags such as Hreflang for multi-language sites and implementation of steps to correctly describe page content. • Wordpress theme redesigns for multiple existing web properties and new site deployments with focus on mobile responsive design.• Designed and implemented a custom job to pull data from the CREA RETS database, importing the JSON data and images into various web properties.• Unix Server, WHM, cPanel and DNS administration.

• Conducted preliminary research to determine the optimal distribution of Drupal to promote the development of Daedalus version 2.0 for the Faculty of Computer Science.• Developed the module with Drupal 8 while overcoming difficulties working with an early Beta Release. Investing many hours researching Drupal core & Symfony documentation for solutions to new features.• Ultimately created a new module that will be viable for many years, and Drupal Distributions.

• Developed the Daedalus and Magellan Drupal 6 modules for the Faculty of Computer Science by programming multiple PHP/MySQL scripts with HTML5, jQuery & CSS 3.0. In short, Daedalus is a mapping tool used to describe curriculums via courses and outcomes.• Designed the accompanying relational database and integrated a database backup system written in Perl and automated with Linux Crontabs.• Administered the web home keeping the Drupal install & modules up to date and configured additional packages such as Google Re-captcha &Analytics. • Versioned the modules via SVN and submitted modules to drupal.org using GIT.

• Quarterbacked the development, deployment and management of over 50 in-house web properties created with WordPress, Drupal, Magento & Static HTML. Overseeing various managed server accounts and a migration into AWS. Additionally, created a custom NodeJS script in conjunction with Lambda, Launch Configurations & Auto Scaling Groups to ‘set’ and ‘forget’ each EC2 Instance.• Creation, administration and optimization of Apache servers utilizing Varnish, including VCL optimization and the implementation of varnish proxies. Gained equal experience with Nginx, including .htaccess to Nginx rewriting. • Assisted with the expansion & management of the Retro Video Game division by maintaining recruitment contacts with UofG & WLU, reviewing applications, interviewing and selecting candidates. Supervising 6 co-op employees and 2 contractors during the 2017 winter semester.• Developed multiple Unity C# & Java mobile video game applications and published each to the Google Play & iTunes app stores. Designed and applied a custom mobile cross-platform package to show customized ad units to end users and implemented the scalable solution on 80+ existing applications.• Theme and plugin development in Drupal, WordPress & Magento. Created various custom WordPress plugins including one to sandbox user sessions, employing a Redis server to cache hashed device identifications. Constructed SOAP product import tools for various Magento sites.• Interacted at various organizational levels to gather specifications, conceptualize and develop new internal reports and tools; wrote PHP & MySQL code to download and import XML account data from various company sources into database tables, architected an OOP PHP & MySQL controller/worker Unix job to process data entered into a company reporting form and import XML data from external sources.• Created a Traffic Test Environment to autonomously filter malicious bot activity, utilizing various redirection techniques and JavaScript.

• Created two custom Drupal 6 modules on a part-time contract. One to update content types and a second to search and replace multiple content type’s values.• Subsequently updated the modules for use in the updated Drupal 7 website; http://www.united-church.ca• Administrative tasks including production pushes, module & Drupal install updates, and the development of a custom database backup system via SQL Replication.

• Contracted thru Paralucent to add functionality to the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Drupal 6 websites; rcmusic.com & musicdevelopmentprogram.org• Designed, developed and implemented additions to the examination registration process. The functionality included updates to the calendar selection tool and handling redirection to and from the Beanstream payment gateway.• Tested modifications locally with a Wamp Server, committed changes using git, and pushed updates to production.• Managed an extensive MySQL database, adding properly indexed tables to accommodate new functionality.• Consulted with RCM Staff to create administrative modules to handle and report the systems information. Additions utilized technologies such as Drupal Views & Drush. SOP’s were written to describe the newly added features.

• Implemented a custom from the ground up PHP & MySQL MVC Framework as the foundation for an e-commerce web application utilizing OOP design principles. • Programmed and integrated multiple commercial API’s as modules to the MVC. API’s including; eBay, Interspire, Big Commerce and Authorize.Net. Each module’s purpose was to import XML product information into the system.• Constructed and implemented the relational MySQL database including scripting optimized queries to select multiple tables records for a custom AJAX search form.• Modeled the UI from a detailed set of mock-ups styling the application following XHTML 1.0 specifications utilizing CSS 3.0. The app was versioned in Tortoise SVN.

• Created a custom Drupal 7 module providing content managers with the ability to create and modify user contests for licensed websites including abcspark.ca and wnetwork.com. The module was developed in PHP, jQuery & HTML5 and themed with CSS 3.0. • Implemented a relational MySQL database to store the contest information and incorporated jQuery to assist form validation and add print functionality.• Produced a server monitoring application to gather statistics and display them in an attractive visual web application. Statistical information from ‘top’, ‘vmstat’ and other CentOS Linux commands were parsed with PHP and displayed in an HTML Canvas with JavaScript to graph the results.

• Oversaw the migration of an existing Microsoft Access database to a MySQL database utilized in a variety of web applications providing volunteer information organization.• Programmed multiple PHP/MySQL scripts with embedded HTML utilizing CSS and JavaScript to provide a comprehensive user interface so users may modify and query volunteer data.• Created a search engine to access the information stored within the MySQL database.• Provided IT related tasks including administering file access and sharing privileges.• Third co-op work term.

• Worked with a team of computer professionals in a Help Desk environment to communicate electronically and in person with students, faculty and staff experiencing difficulties. Problems were documented using a Request Tracker system.• Administered new user accounts, password resets and equipment bookings. • Composed various Perl scripts with MySQL within a Solaris Unix environment to perform a variety of administrative tasks, including user account disk quota warnings.• Monitored computer clusters throughout the Goldberg Computer Science Building, detecting malfunctioning computers within the network and removing faulty units to ensure optimal network efficiency.• Second co-op work term

• Applied acquired database and programming skills in the maintenance of the Canadian Electronic Journal of High School Science & Technology project, a wikkawiki based development tool for students and their teachers.• Effectively programmed using PHP, CSS, HTML, Flash and JavaScript to develop various modules and add-ons for use in the development of CEJHSST project.• Successfully debugged, repaired and upgraded existing web modules.• First co-op work term