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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Lead development teams through large scale projects. Maintained client relationships, gathered requirements from clients for project scopes, established development workflow, launch procedures, security policies and quality assurance practices on multiple enterprise projects. Maintained technical vision and documentation while delegating specific tasks to teams. Assembled teams based on network of connections within the development communities specifically tailored to each project. Responsible for onboarding and training new team members.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Management of technology and implementation. Introduction, implementation, enforcement and execution of development workflows and deployment practices. Maintain community network of development and design professionals for use in projects as clients need. Assist in sales calls and meetings and help develop proposals.

Principal Development for whitehouse.gov and petitions.whitehouse.govRelease master, support, and senior development lead for several extremely high profile Drupal sites with peak traffic in excess of 5 million requests per minute, and over 11 million registered users. Drafting and development of RESTful based services API for large scale, big data publication. Helped drive and implement innovations of open source policy within government. Ensured quality control, standards compliance, and requirements fullfillment with thorough documentation, testing, coordination with team members as well as by engaging the technology community in "hackathon" style events to obtain feedback from consumers in real scenario-based.

Lead Architect and development for www.bestbuymobile.comDrupal based enterprise systems architecture consulting. Configuration and workflow management specialist. Integrations specialist. Apache Solr consulting. Software lifecycle management and team lead.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Primary architect and developer for the Ozmosis ESP medical knowledge repository platform. Extensive use and customization of Drupal, Apache Solr, enterprise service architectures, social media integrations. Massive scale content importation based on user submitted content, existing mailing lists, forum threads, screen scraping, RSS/Atom feeds, for index and search in the Apache Solr search indexing system.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Building, architecting and implementing PhP applications, either standalone or using the Drupal Content Management Framework, to support scalable intranets. Development and integration with Oracle and OID platforms. Some frontend work (HTML, CSS, Javascript) but limited.

Lead development for mid-level clients. Developed hosting and development infrastructure. Coordinated with designers to build pixel-perfect designs from compositions in multiple browsers and screen sizes.

Jr. level LAMP stack development.