Kevin Foster Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Forest Park, OH

Architected, and worked with a team of outsourced developers to build, a new version of the company’s primary web application (a configurator for Custom-Fit Automotive Aftermarket Accessories). The first version of the configurator had been built in procedural PHP with no overarching design to speak of, and in addition to being very brittle and totally.

Developed a web application that started as a simple Facebook fan page app and grew to incorporate Customer Engagement, Email List Management, an MMS Service, a Mobile Site, and a web-based administration portal. Built on top of the CodeIgniter Framework and MySQL, it used various APIs to tie the customer engagement module, email list management, MMS.

My primary task at ConfigureTech in 2010 was to build a set of XML-based APIs that would allow clients to use ConfigureTech’s data and workflow to integrate ConfigureTech’s configurator seamlessly into their websites by building their own custom User Interface on top of those APIs. The resulting APIs were used by a number of large websites (e.g..

Created several plugins for a social networking site based on the elgg framework to implement a number of user experience enhancements, such as a Twitter-like status stream, a sitewide newsfeed, Facebook-like friend management and "wall" commenting features, among others

• Created a custom recipe management system (implemented as a WordPress plugin) for the recent redesign of the California Raisins Marketing Board website (http://www.calraisins.org/)
• Crafted several custom WordPress plugins and custom page templates, and created a custom WordPress theme from multi-layered Photoshop comps for Sephora Cosmetics’ "Buxom Confessions" Product Launch minisite
• Collaborated on a reporting system for an industrial machinery monitoring system that would create a real-time measurement report based on user-chosen criteria and generate a PDF on the fly that could be downloaded.

Designed and maintained departmental website and co-designed templates for the WebCT course sites for the department’s 50-plus courses each semesterCo-designed an online graduate-level course in graphical user interface programming ("GUI Building") which won the WebCT Exemplary Course Award in 2003Co-authored a paper ("The RSVP UniBrowser: Bringing.

Ms In It, Human-Computer Interaction

(Incomplete: studies interrupted when my position at the college was eliminated in restructuring initiative.)

Master Of Music, Composition