Technical Skills
PHP, Drupal, Twig, Wordpress, MySQL/MariaDB, XML, JSON, Bootstrap, Symfony, PHPUnit, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, AJAX, Jasmine, Git, Unix, Linux, Apache, Docker, Lando, Pantheon, Perl, PC Repair, Database Management, Refactoring, Design Patterns, and Adobe Premiere
Senior Drupal Developer – Chicago Area Software Consulting Firm March 2020 – Current
- Spearheaded Drupal 10 development of large, mid-western city’s metro parks website featuring tree and nursery databases plus landscape maps
- Migrated a Drupal-based teacher portal for a multi-state assessment platform from Drupal 7 to 9, including a new Foundation-based theme, and added assessment management tools based on multiple levels of user and group permissions
- Improved Drupal-based teacher portal for a mid-western state’s science assessment platform with additional reporting tools, modernized its Bootstrap-based front-end infrastructure to be responsive, and added Javascript functional testing
- Worked closely with client and team to migrate local retail display company’s site to Drupal 9, upgrade its product search and catalog functionality, and incorporate Google Schema to help boost SEO
Senior Web Developer — Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL) Jan 2005–Feb 2020
- Built and customized primary university sites for 15+ years plus sites and tools for fundraisers, donations and donor tracking, the Chicago Bears training camp, March Madness, a regional youth convention, and more to meet the broad range of various client campus department requests
- Successfully delivered on all aspects of site creation including both front and back-end development, site design, and server administration as well as student worker training & management, convention support, PC repair, and networking support as needed
Pushed and transitioned the team forward to locally developing custom Drupal sites, themes, and modules with Docker and using git to push code through a distributed virtual server workflow
