Software Engineer Resume , Santa Ana, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

To secure a challenging position as a Web Developer. Seeking an organization in need of an energetic, detail - oriented person to improve personal and professional service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HTML5/CSS3; Sass; WordPress theme & plugin development
WP-CLI; JavaScript jQuery
Backbone; PHP
Laravel
PHPUnit; Go; MySQL administration stored procedures and database design; Amazon Web Services; MVC Architecture; Unix-like administration; Vagrant; and Git/Mercurial source control.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Maintain and extend custom themes and plugins written in PHP for WordPress that drive the various online magazine sites that Confidential publishes.
Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to junior colleagues.
Diagnose, profile, and identify performance bottlenecks in production sites using XDebug’s profiling feature.
Streamline custom database queries with an eye towards correctness and security.
Produce a streamlined article and image copying feature to synchronize content and gallery images between different WordPress sites in a multisite installation.
Enhance Google Accelerated Mobile Pages templates to better match baseline website features on that platform.
Develop a server-side interface with a RESTful service that provides vehicle details used to generate web pages for current vehicle makes and models.

Confidential, Huntington Beach, CA

WordPress Developer

Responsibilities:

Maintain and extend custom themes and plugins that turns a WordPress install into frontend user-generated content management system.
Build a RESTful API bridge for WordPress sites to serve as a backend for e-commerce mobile apps, working with WooCommerce running on a WordPress site.
Automate theme building and deployment, using Gulp.js and Git hooks.
Evaluate and audit an existing Laravel applications for project bidding.
Integrate an XMPP server into a WordPress site that together powers a synchronized party music playlist app via a custom-built JSON API.
Provide direction for my coworkers.

Confidential

Web Consultant

Responsibilities:

Assist clients with WordPress site maintenance and development, working to extend themes and plugins' PHP code.
Administer Apache and Nginx webservers hosted on Ubuntu.

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, CA

PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

Work with the in-house MVC OOP PHP framework to maintain and extend the ecommerce administration backend.
Maintain and extend the interface with WePay for payment auditing.
Develop the API for direct access to the internal transaction database.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

Produce and maintain themes and plugins for WordPress sites, and other custom PHP websites.
Build the technological backend to deploy new topic-oriented websites within a minimal timeframe.
Provide a standardized framework for maintaining and deploying updates to the Institute's network of websites using Git and Mercurial source control.
Use of F3 (Fat-Free-Framework) PHP OOP framework & a custom MVC in-house framework for dynamic database-driven sites written under best practices.
Use Search Engine Optimization techniques to make The Institute’s websites more prominent in topical search results, and report these results to The Institute's officers.
Extend and maintain a Django site developed to serve educational videos.
System administration of Apache and MySQL servers, hosted on CentOS.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Web Developer

Responsibilities:

Developing time-critical public-interest websites whose purpose is to connect individuals with their legislators to see that the clients' legislative interests are met.

Technologies used: the Microsoft .NET stack, in-house custom XML-based page-building framework, and SQLServer.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Actuarial Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developing, updating and maintaining the company website, which includes client web applications, in Classic ASP with an Access database backend.
Data mining and analysis of health care claims and pension plan populations, using SQL queries, and Perl scripts.