Ortus Solutions is the official company that provides Professional Open Source Services for the ColdBox Platform, BlogBox and Codex Platform. We specialize in web technologies, architecture and system design.We have a wide gamut of professional services and commercial products for the ColdFusion development stack.

Responsible for web application development and architecture within the information services group.Introduction of best practices and Object Oriented development based on ColdFusion frameworks and Object Relational Mappers to the ColdFusion team.Design & development of the ESRI beta web application that leverages community aspects such as blogs, forums, wikis, secure downloads/media and a sophisticated beta program application workflow and processes. This is the cornerstone application for all beta and release candidate software releases for the entire ESRI product lineup. Backed by a sophisticated Ajax powered administrator application and all interfaces built on ColdBox, ColdSpring and Transfer ORM.Standardization of their Object Oriented ColdFusion applications under the ColdBox PlatformCreation of the first Search Framework for internal search capabilities using a Java/ColdFusion API Hybrid that would interface to proprietary search libraries provided by FAST Search. Creation of remote proxies for remote searching of content via web services or FLEX.Introduction to web application bug and issue tracking systems.Introduction to documentation and code generation for ColdFusion projects.Introduction to UML domain modeling for ColdFusion applications using Enterprise Architect and Poseidon for UML, with code generation techniques.In charge of all development standards for the ColdFusion platform.

Managed and designed all web based development projects for Sandals & Beaches Resorts. Responsibilities included project management, resource allocations, application/database design, application/database documentation, software design processes, deployment architecture design and implementation, test cases, and coding.Developed a standardized ColdFusion development MVC framework; Textus. This framework is used in all web applications and it has become the backbone of all high availability and mission critical applications. Creation of the Sandals source code replication system using the following technologies: ColdFusion/Flash/Bash Scripting/Rsync.Designed and developed the Hotel & Airline Consumer and Travel Agent Booking Engines for Sandals, Beaches and Royal Plantation resorts that bring over 11 million dollars in revenue per month. It is a high availability and mission critical application with several integrated ColdFusion, Java, XML and internal Oracle applications. The main core is built on multithreaded java applications that feed availability to the ColdFusion application.Designer of the Sandals Event & Spa Booking engine that provides the sale of spas, dinners, and tours online. It is based on the hotel and airline booking engines architecture and it implements the Textus ColdFusion Framework. Design of the booking engines manager applications that are available to all 17 resorts around the world with numerous capabilities for setting up real-time availability, inventory, pricing and booking confirmations.Designed and developed the Sandals Email Tracking System that is used for all incoming and outgoing Sandals-client communications.Designed and developed the Sandals Complaint Tracking System, an extensive project encompassing all the resorts around the world to use one single central system and repository.Integration to several GDS systems.

As lead developer, I was in charge of the development and design teams. Responsibilities included database design, application life cycle, documentation, software coding/testing and revisions, creation of development tasks, schedules, and expected development timelines.