Progrexion is a technology-enabled consumer services business that specializes in credit repair.Team lead – Responsible for mentoring and directing a small team that helped maintain and enhance our customer call center, and lead collection software. Interfaced with marketing (product owner), business analysts, and project managers to ensure business requirements are understood and met, as well as control scope creep.Scrum – Used a form of the scrum methodology for agile development, including scoping, sizing, swarming, backlog, burn down, and stand up. Service-oriented software – With multiple teams and technologies depending on each other, we have developed a number of services using RESTful APIs to ensure a loosely coupled system.Peer review – Utilize a peer review process to ensure cleaner code and greater code competency Unit test – Use PHPUnit for unit and integration testing, ensuring code coverage and expected behavior. Dev-ops / release manager – Developed process and scripts to ensure smooth code release to production environments. Utilized saltstack to manage farms. Configure and maintain servers.

Bargainista aka MoneyReef.com - A startup specializing in mobile finance tools for iPhone and iPad.Worked with designer to implement marketing and application designs taking them from photoshop mock-ups and bringing them to life in a cross browser environments using HTML, CSS, and JQuery. Customized open source JQuery plug-ins for custom effects.Used cakephp framework for the back-end interfacing with an API for user and data management.

Bgbng.com - A start-up focused on building an Enterprise Management Solution. Similar to a CRM their tools enabled an advertiser to host their products and manage their traffic with built in features such as fraud detection and integration with numerous payment gateways and fulfillment houses.Used ActiveMerchant Rails plug-in to interface with merchant accounts. Extended the class as needed to work with gateways not included in the library.Work in a Linux environment with Apache PHP5 Symfony MVC framework and MySQL DBMSWork with designers to create the UI utilizing HTML, CSS, and javascript (JQuery)Maintain, debug and upgrade legacy codeDevelop functional tests to ensure code changes do not break other componentsDevelop back end systems to help sales and other departments collaborate and function more efficiently.Develop tools and reporting for hundreds of advertisers to monitor and control their traffic, giving them a greater picture of their Cost Per Acquisition/Cost Per Lead.Collaborate with numerous partners utilizing their APIs using XML and CURL to integrate with our systems.Provide custom programming for advertiser to interface with Bgbng API utilizing XML, JSON, CVS, or YAML.Generate Documentation as features are added or updated.Created compact usable interfaces utilizing the JQuery UI javascript library for navigation, tabs, sliders datepickers, and AJAX. About.com

About.com is part of the New York Times Company. It is one of the largest original content providers. About.com utilizes around 800 guides to provide expert content to help users find solutions to a wide range of daily needs. Utilize Rails and prototype javascript framework for the front end and admin applications, and Perl for many of the back end and Crawler processesDeveloped numerous rake tasks to automate back end processes using cron to run them on a regular schedule Develop on line tools to crawl enterprise web sites, and report detailed information on SEO attributes and search engine stats on both the domain and page levelDevelop back end processes to automate and optimize data harvesting and analysisAnalyzed over 100 Million individual pages updating them on a regular basisGrew the product to a daily scraping capacity of over 3Million pages a dayManaged a Lucene SOLR index for data storage and full text search functionality with an index of over 20 Million documentsManaged several MySQL instances with more than 1.5 TB of data total.

Knightsbridge provides data warehousing and reporting for car dealerships. They provide on line services to help dealers manage customer relations and target promotions. One of the key features for customer retention and satisfaction is to generate surveys, then report back any issues and provide a means to track them to resolution. Converted from Classic ASP to PHP and from IIS to Apache utilizing open source solutions rather than continuing the expense of upgrading their Microsoft Servers. Used PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL and Javascript to add functionality and customize reports that management requested. The ability to customize and add features made Knightsbridge products stand out above the competition made them more valuable to their customers. Developed solutions to consume XML Services provided by companies Knightsbridge has partnered with. Use SQL to directly interact with the database on a regular basis, creating tables, views, and stored procedures to support feature requests or to generate one off reports. Utilized Javascript using the JQuery framework to implement AJAX & JSON calls to the server avoiding complete page reloads and reducing wait times, making the clients time more productive.Excellent customer service skills, experience working with vendors and customers to achieve solutions