Project Name:

Install Wizard

Employer:

ADP - Dealer Services

Timeline:

August 2008 - Current

Senior Application Engineer IV, responsible for creating new modules to the Install Wizard browser-based application. Technologies include PHP, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS.

Project Name:

Expresscopy/InfoUSA Integration

Client

Expresscopy.com (via Centerstance)

Timeline:

March 2008 - July 2008

Web application development for e-commerce web site, bridging product offerings from Expresscopy.com and parent company InfoUSA. Used PHP with Zend Framework, PHPUnit, Javascript (with heavy Ajax and dHTML), MySQL. Brought substantial MVC and unit testing best practices to the software design and development process. Created extension to the Zend Framework in order to provide ActiveRecord API and speed up and simplify further application development.

Project Name:

Listphile

Client:

De Brun Design, Inc.

Timeline:

January 2007 - February 2008

Web Application Developer on www.listphile.com. Using Ruby on Rails and MySQL on an Apache/Mongrel cluster. Architecture features include a virtual, user-defined list schema, all models using pure OOP database access (no direct SQL), moderate AJAX-backed user interfaces, and a multi-format import/export module.

Project Name:

Modern Merchant

Client:

Multiple

Timeline:

April 2003 - Ongoing

Designed and developed Modern Merchant, an open source, e-commerce web application written in PHP. The project is hosted at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/modern/). The home page is at modernmerchant.org. Although the project is pre-release status at SourceForge, versions of it are currently in production at www.beadwife.com, www.bridgetownglass.com, and harvestbeads.com. It uses MVC architecture for the shopping cart checkout and administrator interface.

Project Name:

PrintAndPraise Worship Program

Client:

OCP (via Tek Systems)

Timeline:

January 2006 - October 2006

Developed dhtml/ajax-intensive web application for creating programs for worship services. Try the demo at http://www.printandpraise.com/editor/gettingstarted. Major focus on drag-and-drop functionality of content elements, creating functionality from scratch but inspired by the script.acul.us javascript library. Used the prototype javascript library throughout for low-level support. Middleware developed in PHP.

Major focus on PDF generation using PDFlib as a basis. Created stylesheet-controlled architecture similar to CSS. Created and refined MVC application design.

Project Name:

Product Catalog Database

Client:

Platt Electric (via Creative Data)

Timeline:

December 2004 - October 2005

Designed and developed product management application for Platt's product catalog at http://www.platt.com/. Technologies include Java, Ant, Struts, JSP, JSTL, Hibernate, JUnit, XDoclet, XHTML+CSS, AJAX, DB2, HSQL, Python and PyUnit. Enables administrators to manage item-level, product-level, category-level, and manufacturers. Main obstacles included designing a user interface that is easy and intuitive while allowing user to associate an item in one very large set with an item in another very large set. Sometimes, such relationships were many-to-one, such as assigning a product to multiple categories. Another UI problem overcome was allowing the user to navigate hierarchical tree of a large number of items (~10,000 items). Web services are used to synchronize the platt.com slave product database (hosted off-site on a Dot Net/MSSQL platform) to Platt's master database (iSeries/DB2). Also developed sub-application, New Products Page, that allows customers and sales staff to navigate Platt's newest products. Python was employed to convert static-HTML product catalog into database records and to convert MSSQL data into the product catalog database.

Project Name:

EBARS

Client:

Voice Connection

Timeline:

December 2004 - February 2005

Designed and developed EBARS, a high-speed email blast engine written in Java. It provides a web services interface that accepts a large set of email addresses (typically 1,000 to 40,000) and an email message, and it sends the message to each of the recipients on the list. The system provides four different reports via web services, each describing different aspects of a processed email blast. Significant technical challenges included: Parsing the email message and its containing HTML message, and adding an image tag to the message so that it can be tracked. EBARS hosts the image referred by the tag and records the opening event when the image is requested by the recipient's email client. Tracking bounced messages and opened messages, recording them, and providing a report via web services. Multi-threaded operation: EBARS receives blast request in a separate threads, while additional threads are used to send the blasts.

Project Name:

Online Storefront

Client:

Monster Vintage

Timeline:

October 2001 - Present

www.monstervintage.com. Designed and developed online product catalog and product management application. Sub-projects include email list management and publisher, third-party links page with management application, and sales reports. Developed MVC framework in PHP inspired by Jcorporate's Expresso framework (a Java framework).

Project Name:

Online Survey

Client:

The Carter Group (now Repario, Ltd.)

Timeline:

February 2001

Designed and developed online survey to help managers access the quality of their corporate culture. Includes interface for managing recipients, creating surveys, assigning surveys to individual companies, and generating reports. Written in PHP with MySQL.