Leading provider of professional templates and extensions, and Gantry framework for Joomla!, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and PHPBB3.
Senior Web Developer
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.
RokGallery 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.
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.
CSS Compiling and Compression with YUI and phpQuery
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.
A professional template and extension provider for Joomla! CMS, built on the Zen Grid Framework.
Senior Web Developer
Lead developer in charge of all software development. Maintained in-depth knowledge of distribution platform guidelines and capabilities to guide development. Designed, planned and managed software development for over 20 custom extensions for Joomla!, using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX in MVC OOP. Re-engineered Template Framework including a rewrite of all existing JavaScript and backend UI design. Authored library extension to support all company extensions. Transitioned project management and SVN from a combination of Apollo and Basecamp over to a united one on Assembla.
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Cutting edge extensions for Joomla! CMS, including NinjaBoard built on the Nooku framework.
Web Developer
Authored, tested, deployed and maintained more than 20 Joomla! CMS extensions. Authored 10 extensions for Joomla! in PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript and Nooku. Utilized project management tools for ticketing, project management, and SVN. Gained experience with Apache Ant build system.
