Kyle R. Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Circle Pines, Minnesota, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

• Collaborate with other project managers and lead sprint planning sessions for the web development team, working closely with product owners to prioritize features, estimate effort, and define achievable sprint goals.• Act as the primary point of contact between the web development team and other departments, providing regular status updates and facilitating communication to drive project success.• Oversee project planning, resource allocation, and task assignment to ensure efficient and effective project execution• Utilize Jira and Wrike for effective project management, tracking progress, assigning tasks, and ensuring timely completion of projects• Proactively engage with international team members in contrasting time zones, ensuring smooth communication and collaboration beyond standard working hours to achieve project goals.• This role builds upon the duties listed below, integrating and expanding upon prior responsibilities within the context of my new position.

Austin, Tx, Us

• Full-stack development using PHP, Laravel, Livewire, and Vue.js. Consolidated many legacy PHP5 sites into a modern multi-tenant Laravel Livewire application• Designed, used, and optimized MySQL and Postgres databases. Used redis for caching and session storage.• Completely re-designed the development, QA, build, and deployment processes to minimize blockers. One major part of this was setting up preview builds that allowed Pull Requests to be tested in isolation.• Created and maintained Docker images for all of our projects using Kubernetes.• Set up cross-platform local development environments for the entire team that made it very simple to spin up all of our projects.• Created and managed Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Laravel Forge, and Laravel Vapor build pipelines for preview, staging, and production environments.• Used Kubernetes and Helm for orchestrating deployments in all environments.• Worked with AWS products such as EKS, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3/CloudFront, Route53, IAM, and Lambda.• Created automated end-to-end tests in Playwright and Cypress, and unit tests in PHPUnit.• Participated in Agile development, daily standups, and bi-weekly sprint planning meetings.

• Designed and developed HIPAA compliant enterprise web applications for use in the medical industry.• Designed and developed custom eSports gaming ladder/tournament site for Tripwire Interactive.• Contracted by Google to design and launch community website for SuperPoke! Pets.• Developed websites for big name artists such as Shadows Fall, For Today, and Blondie.

Naperville, Us

• Developed one-page web applications using Laravel 5 and ReactJS.• Designed and developed iOS apps using Cordova, Ionic 2, and Angular 2.• Developed API for iOS apps using Laravel.• Created and consumed RESTful APIs using Laravel 5 and Javascript (angular/http, Axios).• Migrated internal company applications from CodeIgniter to Laravel and handled all Laravel upgrades.• Created composer packages to be used across all Laravel projects• Standardized development environments using Vagrant and Puppet.• Created unit, integration, and acceptance tests using PHPUnit, Behat, Codeception, Selenium, and Laravel Dusk.• Implemented Continuous Integration using CircleCI, Jenkins, and GitLab CI.• Collaborated with remote team members using Slack, Google Hangouts, GitHub, GitLab, and JIRA.

• Designed and developed PrestaShop themes and plugins.• Conversion optimization and search engine optimization.• Server Administration - CentOS, Apache2, PHP, MySQL, Git.• Developed SPP Item Database website and SPP News blog to drive traffic to sppstore.com.• Developed API using Slim and SimpleXML that provided the ability to login, send and receive message on SuperPoke! Pets website.• Designed and developed desktop messaging app using Adobe AIR and Javascript.• Worked with Slide and Google to develop authorized reseller program for SuperPoke! Pets.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

• Worked remotely and attended weekly in-person meetings.• Collaborated with team using Trac and XMPP.• Developed internal applications using PHP, MySQL, bash, and perl.• Used Subversion to deploy code to staging and production environments.• Implemented Google multivariate tests to improve conversion rates on landing pages.• Performed keyword research and SEO on landing pages in order to increase search rankings.

Sylvan Lake, Michigan, Us

• Front-end development using PHP, Smarty, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.• Designed and implemented A/B and multivariate tests in order to improve conversion rates.• Search Engine Optimization for products and brand landing pages.• Redesigned entire shopping cart and checkout process on Skis.com.