This is a pro bono site I built for the Weston Select Soccer Program, the travel portion of AYSO644; a non-profit organization in my local community. It was built on WordPress, with customization to the template including custom javascript functionality in the staff profiles and the FAQs page. Further improvements are planned for the future.
Continue ReadingUseMyBenefits uses the latest search technology to allow members to search and sort by benefit type, location or vendor based on what they want to buy,when and where they want to buy it. And in the future, the UseMyBenefits community will get extra value from the site by learning the “ins and outs” of deals from members who rate and share their experiences.
On the UseMyBenefits project I rebuilt and optimized custom MySQL search for a credit card benefits search, increasing search speed by approximately 65%. I worked on MailChimp api integration, and also improved and optimized clients existing WordPress site.
Continue ReadingWith over $3.5 Billion in processing volume, CardFlex is a leading provider of innovative merchant processing services and prepaid card solutions. CardFlex has the resources specifically tailored for any merchant to implement cost-effective and efficient transaction processing solutions, which are competitive, scalable and designed around merchants operations to save time and money.
On the CardFlex project I participated in the development of their commercial application for tracking, reporting, and processing payments built on PHP/MySQL with integrations for Tender POS, Vantiv, and Forte; and the client facing management tools built in ExtJS.
Continue ReadingIsaac Daniel Group (IDG) is a management company specializing in the development and marketing of advanced technology products and services. IDG manages companies that develop and commercialize technological applications in the fields of cybersecurity, multi-media, communication, GPS; and biometric data capture & authentication for use for use by individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments.
Served as Senior API developer. Responsible for design, architecture and development of new RESTful API for multiple platforms including Android and iOS. Activities: RESTful API development, testing, and implementation. Also responsible for building custom WordPress Multisites and custom WordPress Plugins. Backend development with PHP, Javascript, and MySQL using open source and commercial toolset (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Windows and others (i.e WAMP) . Fulfilled new feature requests and meeting requirements for consistently growing number of Mobile Applications and Websites. Collaboration with both mobile developers and web developers in fast paced team environment using Amazon AWS and SVN.
Continue ReadingShoplive offers a powerful engagement solution that brings the digital and the mobile world to a new level of consumer and community participation and loyalty. Our management tools create memorable mobile moments – How? By activating experiences (known as Augmented Reality), apparel, events, video, mobile apps and beacon enabled networks. Increasing Loyalty, Spend and Dwell Time. Specializing in Augmented Reality and Beacons.
Served as a Senior E-Commerce Consultant to Shop Live executive team, participating in planning, strategy, marketing, hiring and multiple other aspects of the project.
Operational architect of new MVC e-commerce system and its integration with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Try-On, One-to-One Video, and other technologies built in PHP 5, HTML, jQuery, CSS, Bootstrap.
Leading provider of professional templates and extensions, and Gantry framework for Joomla!, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and PHPBB3.
Served as extension developer for multiple web applications, responsible for maintaining existing code base, participated all aspects of the agile project development life cycle. Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of open source web applications through project participation and task completion. Served as team member responsible for maintaining compatibility; for multiple platforms, versions and third party integrations on development of cutting edge, platform independent extensions. Extensive knowledge of integration, back end and front end programming, using commercial and open source toolset (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Mac OSX and others i.e MAMP). Served as the primary web developer on compression and caching extension project, implemented unique solutions to solve common issues resulting in a increase in page load speed and performance, above that of competitors. Improved and maintained over 40 web software application extensions for multiple platforms including; Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, PHPBB3, Magento in PHP 5 and MySQL using MVC and OOP, with compatibility across multiple browsers and operating systems. Served as developer in charge of integrations while maintaining compatibility for multiple platforms, versions and third party integrations for 2 premiere large scale extensions. Development of extensions using APIs; Google, Yahoo, YQL, Twitter, Wunderground for multiple platforms including; Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, PHPBB3, Magento. Collaborated with the global team to plan new development projects and upgrade and deploy existing products. Collaborated with testers and moderators to review test cases and track feature bugs. Successfully managed work flow and projects by leveraging ticketing system which included the verification testing and the assignment of tickets to developers. Responsible for migrating multiple extensions from one platform to another, including custom development of complicated database queries and OOP code for reuse in multiple projects. Gained experience with Symphony, Doctrine, Maven, and Jenkins.
Continue ReadingRokGallery is a ground-up revolutionary gallery extension, developed to be hugely flexible, versatile and user friendly. The system itself is built on a custom tag-based architecture with the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. RokGallery uses design and concepts that have been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications. RokGallery is available both as a Joomla! extension and as a WordPress plugin.
I worked on the Joomla! version of this extension with other members of the Rocket Theme team and was responsible for writing the Joomla! module and porting the entire extension set to WordPress.
RokSprocket is a revolutionary extension designed to give you an incredible level of control over how you present your content. Sophisticated content filters, robust layout modes and options, integration with multiple content providers, and a streamlined no-nonsense interface all contribute to a powerful yet user friendly experience from start to finish. RokSprocket is available both as a Joomla! extension and as a WordPress plugin.
I worked on this extension with the other members of the RocketTheme Team and was responsible for all of the third party integrations, and porting it over to WordPress.
3rd party Integrations
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RokBooster uses a combination of libraries, parserers, compressors, caching and background processing to increase page loads speeds dramatically. Some of the libraries I used include; JSMin, YUI, phpQuery, and LESS.
Background processing of caching and compression on the first call to a uncached page, the page itself loads normally, this prevents the typical bogging down when a page is initially called and pages that haven’t been called will also not take up server space.
MD5 sums on compressed and cached files ensures that any changes to a page will automatically trigger the re-caching of it.
PhpQuery for DOM parsing is used in place of traditional Regex, which is much faster and uses less resources.
YUI does not account for @import stylesheets, so LESS aggregator is used to retrieve and compress these files that would normally not be included in caching.
AJAX is used in the administration to quickly clear all cached files.
The Zen Grid Framework is a feature rich Joomla template framework created for the easy deployment and development of Joomla templates for you and your clients. It features a very smooth and easy to use Joomla template admin which makes controlling the template a breeze for you and your clients.
I reworked the Zen Grid Framework for Joomla! 1.5, rewriting all of the custom jQuery, lots of new features and of course bug fixes.
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