DESIRED POSITION:       Mid-Level Developer

Development in Java EE or lightweight frameworks using Websphere or other containers.

I have been independent contracting since 2003, primarily with Dixie Building Products Inc., which has brought a whole range of experience including in depth knowledge of e-commerce platform deployment and customization, Ebay auction and marketing, search engine optimization in site design and marketing, Google AdWords campaign management and optimization, ROI tracking, and an in depth knowledge of supply chain, profit centers, and marketing related to a particular industry – gas products.

Experience from 2000-2003 includes primarily J2EE on Websphere. Additional projects completed in Coldfusion, ASP3, and PHP4/PHP5. The past 11 years of design and development have brought not just technical knowledge but the translation of business process into business and functional logic to achieve the desired outcomes for customers and stakeholders in the application development process. I have been involved in all configurations of teams from projects completed by myself, end-to-end, to senior developer on a ten member application, to a member of a sub-team of a 200 member staff on a government contract, and feel completely comfortable anywhere in between. I have significant experience with estimates, cost planning, solutions architecture, DBA design and maintenance, client-server/web interface integration, user interfaces, graphics, and branding design and development. Initial experience at roanoke.com brought significant customer relationship expertise with design and development on hundreds of small web sites.

My focus during my undergraduate degree concentrated on planning in the Department of Urban Affairs and City Planning of Virginia Tech. It affords me an extensive knowledge of planning and development principles, comprehensive planning, zoning, government policy and program research and development, stakeholder management and political ramifications of policy, resource allocation and environmental impact planning in both the government and private sector. Some of my coursework and work experience included Environmental Policy, Environmental Planning, Community Involvement, Raster and Vector GIS, Public and Campus Comprehensive Planning and Public Utilities Planning, State and Federal Public Finance, and a variety of Public Policy courses. The minors in Organic Chemistry and Political Science (International and Foreign Policy) augment my environmental and policy studies.

Dixie Building Products Inc.

• LAMP stack e-commerce application: deployment, customization, data building and maintenance.
• AdWords Campaign: creation, maintenance, modification, ROI analysis.
• Ebay automated auctioning and marketing. Auction design, data building, policies and technical writing.
• New user interface designs, color schemes and branding.

Dixie - Management and Customer Relations

• Coordination amongst staff on product decisions, pricing and business policies.
• Extensive customer management and relations, selling, and needs assessment.
• Problem sales resolution.

Pro Multis Catholic Books and Gift Center

• Deployment and customization of a LAMP stack open-source e-commerce application, Virtuemart.
• Search Engine Optimization of Meta Data, links, tags and on-page verbiage.

Roanoke Central Council PTA

• Deployment and customization of a LAMP stack open-source content management application, Mambo.
• Search Engine Optimization of Meta Data, links, tags and on-page verbiage.

The Roman Forum

• Design and development of static website. Original artwork and UI design.
• Search Engine Optimization of Meta Data, links, tags and on-page verbiage.

Personal Sites (a2d3.com, catholictradition.net)

• Deployment and customization of a LAMP stack open-source content management application, Joomla.
• Deployment and customization of a LAMP stack blog application, Wordpress.
• Deployment and customization of a LAMP stack Wiki, MediaWiki.
• Search Engine Optimization of Meta Data, links, tags and on-page verbiage.

• State Department Development: America's Job Bank (now America's Job Exchange): Java 1.3, J2EE, and Servlets/JSP. Websphere, JBuilder, ANT, Velocity.
• Commercial site development and management - Coldfusion and ASP
• Site Design, Usability, Information Architecture, Technical Documents
• Senior developer/architect: executive jobs site.
• Business Analyst and Documentation
• Unit Testing & QA
• Database Design and Development - Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 7/2000, Access

• Senior staff developer
• Database design and management
• Editing and content generation: roanoke.com departments
• Site Design, Usability, Information Architecture
• Content Management: static, dynamic, real media and new media
• Commercial site management - 100+ Sites
• Extensive Adobe Experience: Photoshop, ImageReady, GoLive

• MS Access Data Automation
• Cornerstone PDF System - High Volume Scanner
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance

• Java 1.3, J2EE 2.0, Servlets/JSP - 18 months
• Websphere 4.0 - Development and Deployment, XML configuration - 18 months
• ANT - familiarity with deployment descriptors, configuration - 12 months
• CVS - working knowledge of trunk and branch build procedures - 12 months
• Jbuilder IDE - use and configuration - 1 year
  
  
• Macromedia Coldfusion Developer (4.0, 4.5, 5.0) - 3 years
• ASP 3 Developer - 2 years
• PHP & MySQL - 4 years
  
  
• Applications Experience
• State Department Job Site - jobsearch.org - America's Job Bank
• J2EE
• Java 1.3
• Servlets/JSP
• X-Path/jRules
• XML configuration
• Execu-Search.com - NYC executive job site
• Coldfusion 4.5/5.0
• Cutco - Extranet Cutlery Website with transaction processing of E-commerce
• ASP3
• Descenza Jewelers E-commerce
• Coldfusion 4.5/5.0
• Raymond Corporation Industrial Sales
• Coldfusion 4.5/5.0
• Nassau Asset Management Repossessed Equipment Auctions
• Coldfusion 4.5/5.0
  
  
• Other Current and Previous Site Experience
• Content Management System - The Roanoke Times online
• Tango/HTML
• Automobile Dealership Inventory Control (2)
• Tango/HTML
• Industrial Rubber Manufacturer - Product Catalog and Specifications
• Tango/HTML
• Dozens of other small business static websites
• Bookstore with inventory control
• ColdFusion 5.0
• Search engine optimization; keyword weighting, custom submissions
  
  
• WinNT/2K, Mac Work Environment - 8 years; Linux (Redhat) - 2 year
• Adobe Suite: Extensive knowledge of Photoshop, ImageReady, GoLive - 6 years
• Banners, creation, management - 3 Years
• Mastery of HTML 3.2/4.0 - 5 years; browser conflicts
• Advanced Search Engine Registration - ranking, metatags, engine to engine variations, code optimization