Marcus Melo Email & Phone Number

Westport, CT

• Designed and implemented major enhancements in the front and back end addressing many UI issues, improving the average page load speed from 5 to 1.5s
• Troubleshoot, update and develop new web applications for the ecommerce and brick & mortar stores
• Implemented a new search solution using a standalone installation of Apache Solr
• Implemented Amazon & Paypal checkout
• Redesigned the site using Bootstrap using 2 weeks cycles taking ownership of the entire project
• Implemented a fraud risk tool to help stake holders flag fraudulent orders

Sacramento, California, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Babylon, NY

• Manage small IT department.
• Provided daily development, support and maintenance of a few operational web-based Enterprise and CMS applications in Coldfusion/MySQL.
• Provided technical leadership in coding practices and debugging issues.
• Introduced and implemented source control (subversion) to the IT team

Manhattan, NY

• Lead developer for eyeglasses.com e-commerce site including developing the application front end and building the administrative back end.
• Work in a variety of web-based client applications and e-commerce sites such as Arnold & Porter, LLP., Catholic Charities, Gold N Fish Marketing Group, LLC., Hangsterfers Laboratories, Insurance Information Institute.

Babylon, NY

• Develop and maintain web-based IT systems in Coldfusion and MySQL.
• Help Desk support.
• Develop a batch system that communicates with the Department of State web services to update exchange visitors information.
• Develop a batch system that runs criminal background checks on company’s employees and host families using web services.
• Develop a help desk system that became a key tool for tracking updates on the websites.
• Develop a complete online application system (25 pages) that allows students from all over the world to apply for a high school program in the USA.