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Summary

Results and detail oriented software developer with more than 12 years experience.
Experienced OO developer with particular expertise in PHP, Agile and Extreme Programming (XP).
Over 12 years' experience developing software and managing projects in challenging, fast-paced consulting environments.
Demonstrated ability to acquire technical knowledge and skills rapidly.
Innovative problem solver, able to see the business and technical sides of a problem.
Proven leadership, negotiation and problem resolution abilities.
Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written.


TECHNICAL SKILLS MATRIX


PHP 5 / PHP 4 – 10+ Years
MySQL 5 / MySQL 4 – 10+ Years
Codeigniter – 4+ Years
CakePhp – 4+ Years
Zend Framework – 3+ Years
jQuery – 4+ Years
AJAX – 4+ Years
SOAP / REST – 4+ Years
Ruby / Rails – 3+ Years
Perl – 5+ Years

LAMP Stack – 10+ Years
Apache Administration – 10+ Years
MySQL Administration – 10+ Years
CMS (Postnuke, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal) – 8+ Years
Subversion/GIT Administration – 4+ Years
 
Windows – 10+ Years
Mac OS X – 5+ Years
Linux – 10+ Years
Shell Scripting (BASH, Python) – 5+ Years

Classic ASP – 10+ Years
Microsoft MS SQL – 12+ Years
Microsoft VB 6 / VB .NET – 6+ years
Microsoft C# - 4+ Years
Microsoft ASP.NET – 4+ Years
 
HTML – 12+ Years
CSS – 6+ Years

Javascript – 8+ Years

Flash Actionscript – 4+ years
Flex – 4+ Years

iPhone Development(Objective-C): Experimenting
Android Development: Experimenting

Agile Methodology – 5+ Years
XP Methodology - 5+ Years
Project Management – 5+ Years
Project Architecture – 5+ Years






WORK EXPERIENCE
Fulltime Work

Lead Software Developer / Senior Software Developer
• Scenic Figure, LLC – www.scenicfigure.com
High Profile clients: Greenday, R.E.M. and Widespread Panic
Duration(March 2011 – Present)
Responsible for technical direction as well as all technical decisions within Scenicfigure.
Invited to become a full member of the team after 2 weeks within the project.
Custom Cakephp development. Expanding a custom tailored CMS using the previously mentioned framework.
Implemented technical solutions, agile practices and other systems/methods to improve quality of deliverables – subsequent migration of platform to new server, performance analysis, review and tuning of the new server and platform of greenday.com.
Integrated the new video player for R.E.M., youtube api, using cakephp.
Integrated the new website for widespreadpanic.com
(Cakephp, php, MySql, AJAX, jQuery)


Senior Web Developer
CareTeamConnect / RemCare, Inc – Chicago
Duration(March 2010 – April 2011)
Was invited to become part of the team, after 2 months as a freelance developer.
Was tasked with new module development, platform development and maintenance, from concept to implementation, including technical requirements elaboration and reviews. Some of the most important modules that were developed by me:
Medications Module: core module of CareTeamConnect, this is the central and most important module of the application, manages all medications for a given Care Plan/Patient.
Schedule Medications: allows the scheduling of specific medications and their dosages.
Care Assessment Module: innovative module, that used a custom built interactive chart to track and monitor patient progress within an assessment.
Alerts Module: backend module that handles every aspect of sending and interacting with alerts, from message queuing, to concurrency safe measures, due to its importance, module was designed having in mind high availability.
Dashboards module: allows for quick access to patient information, displayed in a very informative manner.
Application and Platform code maintenance.
(Cakephp, MySql, postgreSql, liquibase, jQuery, Jira Studio)


Senior Web Developer
America’s Army Game Project – United States Army
Duration(January 2008 – September 2009)
Responsible for maintaining and supervising all development efforts of the Army Game Project, assisting the Project Manager with all the necessary technical decisions.
Responsible for all live code deployments.
Developer Lead on all Army Game Project web development efforts, including but not limited to:
Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army War College:
Developed a custom tailored CMS solution that integrated directly with PhpBB forum software, so the Army can publish Video sessions for effective communication between their officers. (PHP, Mysql, PhpBB3.x, AJAX, CSS)

U.S. Army Center for Enhanced Performance /
U.S. Military Academy:
Front-end Development using a custom-built CMS templating system (PHP, Mysql)
Back-end Development using the PHP framework Codeigniter.(PHP, Mysql, codeigniter)

Sites Developed/Maintained:
Continued development and enhancement of the forums to cater to a community that continues to actively grow. The website handles multiple millions of posts, and more than 250 thousand users, the forum software was extensively modified, its initial codebase derives from phpBB2.x, and they have been altered in order to run optimally on such a big community.
(PHP, Memcache, PhpBB2.x)
Coordinated a team of 5 Web Developers towards the release of the current version of the site for the America’s Army game, in preparation for the game third major release (America’s Army 3.0).
Virtual Army Experience media management: developed a front-end and backend application using PHP to allow America’s Army VAE attendees to view photos and retrieve photos that were taken on the event.
(PHP, CSS, AJAX, MySQL)

Private / Still to be Disclosed Projects:
Developed an automated archival system for Statistical data that the Army Game Project uses to assess and get insight on all media coverage about the project on any and all communication mediums, including but not limited to TV, Internet, Newspapers, Radio.
(PHP with Zend AMF connector, Adobe Flex 3.0)
Repurposed the America’s Army Press Site that the Army Game Project uses to publish all media press content.
(CSS, jQuery, PHP, Mysql)
Developed a statistical/graphing analysis tool, that the Office of Economic and Man-Power Analysis uses to assess and generate graphical charts for The Pentagon.
(Coldfusion, MySql)
Responsible for bringing Agile development to the Web Team, by implementing GIT source revision control and Project Management principles across the board, using www.codebasehq.com.
Implemented a Beta Signup Process Page, as well as an automated Beta Key Management Application, for the then to be released America’s Army 3.0 game release. This application allowed the users to sign up as beta testers for the game. The back-end allowed the AA Community Managers to filter users and select upon their defined criteria, would be eligible to participate in the program, it was a 3 part process, with automated email management and tracking.
(PHP, CSS, AJAX, MySQL)


Senior Linux Systems Administrator
NetServe Solutions, LLC
Duration (2003 – 2008)
I was responsible for all the systems administration and service planning, including but not limited, to automating all the administration tasks (patch updating, backup policies, security audits, intrusion detection).
Also handled all the performance metrics, required to maintain our rigorous Service Level Agreement, of 100% uptime on all our servers and services.

Analyst/Programmer
PRIMAVERA Business Software Solutions, SA
Duration (2002 – 2003)
I was tasked of implementing substantial changes to the core CRM/ERP software;
Having coordinated, managed and implemented major framework programming on the CRM/ERP Package to support the Core Application Framework.
Migrated from a null-tiered, into a Multi-Tiered Application Framework developed in-house utilizing Adodb.
(.NET, VB6, MSSQL, SHAREPOINT, VSS)











Freelance Work
• RemCare, Inc – www.myremcare.com
Duration(March 2010 – May 2010)
Developed an enterprise grade framework based on cakePhp, with modular support.
Conceptualized and Developed Health Care Management modules using the above in-house platform, based on strict guidelines provided by the HL7 Standards Organization.
Worked directly with Executive Management to bring process efficiency to module development.
Developed most of the mission critical Modules that compose the Care Team Connect product.
(Jira Studio, Cakephp, php, MySql, postgreSql, AJAX, jQuery, liquibase)

• Simallure, LLC – www.divorcenetwork.com
Duration(September 2009 – March 2010)
Developed an advanced CMS similar to Drupal, used throughout of the
application, for Site Writers to use to publish content on the website.  
Developed a user blogging system that permits a normal site user to publish content.
Subsequently I was invited to becoming the Senior Lead Developer for this project, and am responsible for all its properties.
(Basecamp, Cakephp, php, MySql, jQuery, SEO)

• Prestige Plumbers, Inc
Duration(June 2009 – December 2009)
Developed an ERP system that integrates with the company regular workflow, that lets them realize and minimize costs by keeping track of material cost, orders, customers, mobile assets and workforce.
(Basecamp, Adobe Flex 3.0/Flash Builder 4.0, Ruby on Rails, MySql, AJAX)

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION/DEVELOPERING SKILLS
I am also a well versed Systems Developer and Administrator.
Detailed information about this skill-set available upon request.
EDUCATION
Industrial Developering and Management.
Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão University
Duration (2006 – 2009)






REFERENCES
Damien Schaefer – Owner – scenicfigure.com – Athens Georgia – United States
Jeff Camozzi – Director of Web Development – careteamconnect.com – Chicago Ohio – United States
Kevin Mayes – VP of Product – careteamconnect.com – Chicago Ohio – United States - kmayes
Robin Byers – Chief Operations Officer – sbstone.com – Cleveland Ohio – United States
Bill Howard - Project Manager, U.S. Army - Army Game Project - America’s Army – New Jersey – United States
Edward DeGorter – Founder - NetServe Solutions, Inc.