02/01/2024 updated

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Backend Developer (PHP, Rails) / DevOps Platform Engineer

Columbia SC, USA
Columbia SC, USA

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DEV OPSProgrammerRubyPHP ProgrammerSymfonyLaravel 5zend frameworkRuby On RailsLinuxaws
A skilled developer with experience in PHP and Ruby on Rails developement.  I have decades experience in taking projects over that need a little extra somthing and pushing them across the line to completion. I am an Architect and Platform Engineer with countless hours of experience working on prem as well as in the cloud.

Languages

EnglishNative speakerRussianFluent

Project history

Senior PHP Developer

Dominion Diagnostics

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology

Worked on a team of developers to convert legacy php into a modern Laravel Dasboard with a React front end.

PHP/SecOps, Risk Engineering

Etsy

Goods & Retail

Worked on various projects related to site wide security.

WordPress Consultant

OpenText/Hightail

Other

Created a custom WordPress theme based on the designs given.

Senior PHP Developer

Sentry Data Systems

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Technology

Worked on a project upgrading the company's web application.  Searched for elements in the code base that would be affected by upgrades to: PHP, the Symfony Framework, and jQuery.

PHP Developer and Platform Engineer

Financial Times

Media & Publishing

Worked on modernizing a series of legacy applications.  Containerized them and created infrastructure and pipelines to run them on AWS platform.

PHP Developer, Platform Engineer

OpenText

Internet & IT

Maintained the companies WordPress sites and systems.  Ran the servers, updated software.  Created themes and plugins.  Migrations of sites to new systems. Managed 90+ Wordpress sites.

CTO

Alumnify

Other

Worked at an early stage start up.  Developed a POC for a Alumni Engagement Platform. Advised the founders and assisted in building a small team

System Architect, Platform Engineer

Comporium Communication

Telecommunications

Was a consulting architect working on a POS system. Assisted pricipal architect in setting up PHP.  Helped in the adoption of a Git workflow for the team and developed development environments as well as deplyment pipelines

Senior PHP Developer

Pace Communications

Media & Publishing

Worked with a team to convert an older WordPress theme into a newer template system.  Made plugins to support various aspects of the new theme as well as wrote code to automate the conversion of older posts to the newer system

PHP Developer

South Carolina Budget and Control Board

Government and Public Services

Built a system to manage invoicing and contracts for the SC State Office of Engineering.

Rails Developer

Political Exchange

Other

Worked on a POC for a political social networking and campaign management site.

Lead Develoer

Root Loud

Other

Worked on various sites and projects in PHP, Rails, JavaScript and VB for an agency that specialized in eLearning tools.

Lead Developer

Leveraged Media

Marketing, PR and design

Wrote a web application for a marketing Startup.

Portfolio

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Hightail Blog

I created a WordPress theme for the Hightail Blog upon their aquisition by OpenText
https://web.archive.org/web/20200515124045/https://blog.hightail.com/
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OpenText Documentum

I was a member of a team that created this site when OpenText purchased some software from Dell after they bought EMC
https://web.archive.org/web/20170311150632/http://documentum.opentext.com/
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FT MBA Rankings

Worked on containerazation of the Financial Times MBA Rankings System. Launched the system on AWS. Made some updates to their PHP code base to fix bugs as well as upgrade security practices to better comply with GDPR.

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