Mark Davidson Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Specializing in the grocery sector, Mercātus provides an enterprise-grade eCommerce platform for leading grocers in the United States with over 40 third-party integrations. My role as part of the Web Platform team involves adding new features to the platform, addressing defects and bugs, and coordinating with other teams to ensure a high-quality offering to our clients (including Weis Markets, Price Chopper and WinCo Foods).● Participating in stand-ups and weekly sprint reviews, sprint-planning sessions, and cross-department sprint demos.● Implementing new features and integrations to spec as laid out by the Product team. ● Encouraged to take ownership of the task at hand and take the time to ensure things are implemented the right way.● Interfacing with the Product, Design, UX, and Quality Assurance teams to achieve the best overall solutions for our clients.● Building small projects and prototypes on new frontend frameworks like React and Vue.Company Hackathons + weekly Lunch and Learn sessions experimenting with new technologies.● Tools + Tech: AngularJS, React, Drupal CMS, Atlassian (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo)

Newmarket, On

Full-stack Web Developer with snapd Design, the in-house agency for snapd Inc., an organization specializing in community-based advertising, public relations, networking and marketing initiatives. The wide variety of business relationships and community partnerships at snapd Inc. provide a range of challenging opportunities and projects for both clients and internal purposes.Additional Info:● Interfacing with clients throughout the design and development process: planning user-flow + UX, wire-framing, demoing + feedback integration, and training.● Most projects are custom web-based applications with dashboard-style admin interfaces requiring authentication. These applications are commonly used for order / inventory management and have public-facing components with e-commerce integration via the Moneris Payment Gateway.● Primary application stack uses Slim (Laravel-like PHP MVC framework) on top of Apache with mySQL database architecture and AngularJS / jQuery on the front-end. Typically applications will use a JSON-based API set up through Slim with the Twig templating engine running on the back-end for layouts and / or Angular-based templating on the front-end.● Some internal projects require working with APIs built on Node servers and MongoDB (noSQL) databases.● Host a free business webinar monthly discussing topics like User Experience and best practices for using your website as part of an integrated business model.Workflow and Tooling: ● OSX + Homebrew ● Atom (code editor) ● Git (version control)● Grunt (task runner + build tool)● npm / Bower / Composer (dependency management)● Sequel Pro / Robomongo (database administration)● NodeJS, MAMP, VMware Fusion (local development)● Adobe Creative Cloud (graphics editing)● Balsamiq Mockups (wire-framing)

Web Design and Development position with a company providing website hosting, management, and email services for 130+ clients on an ongoing basis. As there are many facets to the services offered, this position draws on a wide variety of skills.● Working as part of a team to meet the requirements of every client request.● Assigning / Overseeing tasks as report-to contact for other staff (support).● Using SSH command-line tools / development environments for version-control.● Content updates and content creation.● Design updates and improvements.● Creating, configuring, and updating shopping carts and database-driven websites.● Installing, configuring, and integrating plugins via LAMP-stack such as CMS, File-Sharing Apps, and Wikis.● Communicating with clients directly via email and phone.● Emphasis on independence, responsiveness, quality of work, and personal discretion.● Emphasis on training and continual self-learning.● Keyword and website analysis tasks / updates for Search Engine Optimization program available to clients.● Background / Administrative tasks including writing research papers on industry topics for company newsletter.