Mark Maskell Email & Phone Number

Crystal City, VA

Developing new products and sites using WordPress in a Lean Agile development environment.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Sole web developer tasked with maintaining the company's existing 30+ Drupal Version 6 and 7 websites while providing front-end support for all 250+ users, both local and remote, company-wide. Developed most efficient.
• Thoroughly evaluated overall web infrastructure, considering the corporate culture and governance, user resources and needs, institutional and individual users' goals, limitations of single-developer operations, web.
• Chartered project to fully overhaul the company’s primary website and reorganize the company’s customer-facing presence. Provided expert guidance for information architecture, visual design and layout, and social media.
• Designed and build a feature-rich enterprise EEO-compliant applicant tracking system. Used WordPress as a Content Management Framework and built custom plugins to hit all requirements. This majorly streamlined and.
• Defended sites against attacks and traffic spikes. Performed forensic analysis of breaches, identified and closed security holes and fixed weak configurations. Performed software patches and restoration of services.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Established company's core web and social media strategies, created original web content: photos, videos, blogs, pages, statuses, interviews, etc, engaged community of fans, enthusiasts, supporters, and promoters, both.
• Migrated company sites from outdated servers to new dedicated CentOS Linux servers to improve performance and to utilize new releases of PHP, Apache, mySQL, and other essential services, which allowed me to install.
• Designed and developed a customized framework in Wordpress, utilizing object-oriented programming languages including PHP and JS, and markup languages such as HTML, CSS, and XML, to deliver a scalable, cross-browser.
• Assessed the company’s needs and challenges and created custom themes, templates, plug-ins, and functions using PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, and jQuery to create a powerful website/UI that coupled a visual design rooted in.
• Utilized external APIs and applications from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube, and others to integrate the site with social media networks and further enhance the 'Web 2.0' experience.
• Educated the staff on site administration, content creation strategies, and SEO and social media best practices. Augmented admin interface to streamline workflow for admins/content creators by using PHP scripts to.

• Heavily modified existing Wordpress templates and core files using PHP, HTML, and CSS according to client specifications and mock designs.
• Collaborated with software designer to integrate custom Ruby scripts with Wordpress.
• Helped non-technical customer to verbalize needs and used sound judgment to generate recommendations for solutions.

Harrisonburg, Virginia

• Established the company's marketing, branding, and advertising strategies, managed all web and social media presence. Established domains, website hosting, and designed/built websites.
• Grew a strong community of supporters through interactive content, multimedia, social events, community involvement, and customer engagement both online and in person.