

Created libraries for adding standard html forms to back-end/front-end of sites programmatically.Developed CRM/task management WordPress based application for managing client invoices, tasks, projects, & hosting information.Consulted to implement marketing strategies for SEO, social media, & online ads.Automated deployment of new databases, WordPress installations, Virtual Hosts, & backups via BASH scripting.Operated LAMP based hosting environments based on Ubuntu - Linode VPSs capable of serving 200+ concurrent users.Built additional back/middle/front facing functionalities into client's CMS to manage events, products, & other objects as needed.Met with clients, translated requirements into wireframes/mockups, converted mockups into dynamic cross-browser compatible CMS based sites.Jack of all trades role responsible for marketing, business development, accounting, server administration, front & back-end development, design, information architecture, search engine optimization, consulting, customer service, and other roles as needed. Support and debug HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL and PHP incidents with our web applications and WordPress sites, themes and plugins.Ĭo-Founder The 42nd Estate LLC April 2008 - December 2016.Setup uptime monitoring for our applications and servers leading to higher exposure of outages and in turn less outages.Provided tier 3 technical support to clients including students, staff and faculty via bug fixes, security patches and incident management.Worked with systems to stand up new virtualized hardware, updated legacy PHP 4 / MySQL 4 applications to MySQL 5 / PHP5 and migrated to new backends.Reduced average response times for BU calendar requests by ~67%, increased uptime from weekly outages to rare outages, stopped memory leaks and reduced timeouts by 90%.Reduced BU Calendar API requests served from ~1.5 million daily requests to ~100,000 daily requests via implementing caching in WordPress and within the calendar application, eliminating redundant calls, fixing bugs and improving logic to utilize already cached data.

Created API for BU Calendar to allow decoupling the application from our WordPress servers.Created coding standard for our non-WP PHP applications.Refactored homepage CMS application to publish to S3 and enabled https.Migrated BU's homepage to S3 and web routing to NGINX in AWS from legacy on-prem servers.Senior Web Developer Boston University December 2011 - June 2019įull-stack developer supporting PHP/JS/Python web applications and a sophisticated WordPress installation.
