Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States
SOFTWARE ENGINEER A seasoned Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience in application design, development and maintenance of data-centric, dynamic web applications. Particular expertise in: • Web applications using Perl, PHP, and .NET technologies. • MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. • Strong background in ecommerce development. • Modern MVC Frameworks, (PHP and Perl) ORM data accessing pattern on top of relational Database and templating Framework. • Exporting and transforming product feeds in various formats, including HTML, XML, and CSV. • Designing, coding, and unit testing new features and modifying existing codes.
Successfully supported a faculty initiative by embracing new technologies and developing a platform that mimics popular social media sites, giving faculty the ability to simulate crisis news and media reports. Platform is currently being used in class. Roles consisted of R&D, architect and developer, while collaborating with the ITIM group. Technologies included AWS, PHP, NGINX, Redis, MySQL, WordPress and NodeJS. Successfully continued the enhancement of faculty systems such as Faculty Activity Reporting and Faculty Recruiting systems by managing and supporting the enhancement lifecycle; (1) Acted as a Business Analysts by working with Faculty Affairs to gather enhancement requirements (2) Acted as a developer, developing enhancements as needed (3) Acted as an advisor to vendors, providing them with guidance to assist them in their development efforts. Enhancements for the Faculty Activity Reporting system also included a database upgrade in which I successfully coordinated which the McCormick IT department.
Customized and Enhanced Kellogg school faculty activity reporting system using advanced JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Linux. A more interactive and responsive website. • Utilized jqGrid plugin (Ajax-enabled JavaScript control) to represent and manipulate faculty/publications tabular data on the web pages (providing dynamic pagination, on-the-fly filtering, and column sorting) • Implemented Autosave form - allow fields, TinyMCE web editor control to communicate with the backend MySQL database behind the scenes without human interaction. • Implemented jQuery autocomplete with Ajax callback function to get data via JSON objects from PHP application. • Implemented PHP web applications to interact with Ajax call. • Implemented PHP web service and using excel to consume the web service. (VSTO) Customized and Enhanced KIS Recruiting Admin Tool and MyStudents app. • Used Microsoft AJAX control toolkit for partial page updates • Implemented .Net Web API and Telerik kendo UI widgets to load and display Students information. Added a CSV Media Formatter to the Web API Pipeline to generate csv download file.
• Maintained and supported an online E-Cigarette shopping cart and CMS websites using PHP, Apache, and MySQL on Linux platform. Including: • Enhanced the Magento E-Commerce platform frontend and backend website. • Implemented product feed using PHP scripts in csv and xml format for the major shopping engines to attract new customers and increase sales. (Become, pronto, pricegrabber, shoppzilla, and shopping.com) • Organized and maintained the company’s blog, forum website. (Wordpress) • Testing the website/software and identifying and investigating bugs.
• Developed and supported a complex multimillion dollar revenue e-commerce system offering a secure portal for selling software online. Using Perl and Apache web server, and Oracle on Linux platform. • Developed and maintained daily RSS feed, pad file synchronization, and new web site creation. Using PHP, Apache, and Oracle on Linux platform. (Simtel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel • Developed and maintained RegNow Affiliate Data feed Tool using Perl script, SQL queries, stored procedures and functions. Provided XML and CSV data feed to RegNow affiliate. • Designed and implemented an AJAX heavy dynamic front end using HTML/CSS/jQuery on top of Perl Catalyst MVC for displaying vendor’s sale and net revenue chart. • Designed and implemented a RESTFul client in order processing to access DPL web service. • Customized JavaScript and PHP GUI templates and configuration issues to help affiliates selling products. • Worked closely with RegNow internal vendor support team to investigate and research application issues. Worked with QA team to resolve the system test phases issue by writing testing plan and test scripts.
• Designed and implemented complex data transformation service (DTS) packages and T-SQL scripts for distributed queries to Extract/Transform/Load data from Ingres DB into SQL server 2000. Data migrated and configuration for Crystal Enterprise 9