Web development and information technology professional with thirteen years of startup and enterprise experience.
Experience
Senior Web Developer, REI -- Oct 2011 - Current
Responsible for architecting, delivering, and teaching other developers how to best use the 960 Grid System and guiding developers on the best method for creating and using JavaScript, especially jQuery in a manner that produces loosely coupled and independent front end components suitable for complex CMS deployment.
http://www.rei.com/
- CQ5 Content Management System Migration
- Working with a small and dedicated Agile team to rewrite front-end templates using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 progressive enhancement techniques.
Senior Web Developer, Ascentium Corporation -- Sept 2010 - Sept 2011
Responsible for building killer websites at Microsoft, T-Mobile, Mastercard, Intel, Precor, Georgetown Brewing, and AT&T Wireless using modern HTML, CSS, and Javascript standards with a focus on mobile first development using a mix of .Net or PHP with a generous sprinkling of jQuery and CSS3.
http://ascentium.com
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Microsoft Office for Business Campaign: My team and I delivered a highly interactive jQuery driven user experience to facilitate selling the benefits of Microsoft Office for medium to large business organizations. http://www.microsoft.com/office/business/
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Intel Software Partners Membership FAQ Working on an agressive timeline I built and tested an advanced FAQ page with multiple views using jQuery and some URL trickery to enable deep linking to dynamic content. http://software.intel.com/partner/ (must be a member to see page)
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Ascentium Jobvite Drupal Plugin: Working with some great coworkers we created a Drupal plugin pull content from Jobvite via their documented API directly vs. manualy copying the information saving our recruiters and marketing team valuable time and energy. http://www.ascentium.com/content/careers
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Intel Software Partners Home Page I dove into an exsisting website under tight delivery contstraints and added several pieces of jQuery powered flair to pump up user engagment with several pop ups, expanding sub menues, and tabbed navigational elements. http://software.intel.com/partner/
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Hit or Quit SXSW Mobile Web Application I built and deployed an advanced web application using the jQTouch mobile development framework to showcase and highlight active events during the SXSW interactive conference. Features included session checkin via Foursquare, zoomable maps of the convention centers, event voting (hit it or quit it), and relevent twitter noise per session. http://goo.gl/xGrCM
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T-Mobile Data Calculator: I worked on version two of the jQuery powered data calculator. I added support for multiple page views, tightened up the mathmatical formulas, and created a new framework for adding additional functionality.
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T-Mobile Data Plans: Built new layout to focus on competitive new data plans and package information using HTML, CSS, and a splash of jQuery. http://goo.gl/AckyG
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Precor Website Redesign: Built a highly customized Drupal powered website complete with multiple language support, ecommerce, and content migration. http://precor.com
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AT&T My Mobility Toolkit: I extended an existing Etomite powered marketing portal to include expanded authentication options: email validation, expired account notices, inactivity notices, and multiple login locations. I also supported the expansion of content to the mobile and desktop versions of the website. http://mymobilitytoolkit.com
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Microsoft Consumer Cloud: Built downlevel jQuery/HTML/CSS experience to match Silverlight campaign.
Senior Web Developer & Technology Director, Magnuson Hotels -- Sept 2009 - August 2010
Responsible for development, migration, and integration of hotel data systems for the world's largest independent hotel group using ASP.NET, MSSQL, PHP, and MySQL. Responsible for branded hotel website development and administration of IIS web servers.
http://magnusonhotels.com
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Call Center Tracking: I took it upon myself to create a call center tracking and performance system after observing our call center staff sharing an Excel spreadsheet to track customer calls.
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Windsurfer Reservation System: I evaluated and researched potential replacements for an older first generation reservation system for Magnuson Hotels which lead us to Houston based Windersurfer Labs. After extensive project planning, preperation, and data migration we updated the reservation system for over 700 hotels with minimal downtime and headache for our clients.
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UK Hotel Expansion: I worked with our UK based marketing department to build a UK centric sales portal for international customer acquisation. Built upon version 1.7 of the Code Igniter framework.
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Website Redesign: I started out doing a bit of freelance work to extend their sales contact form which turned into a full blown redesign and revamp of an antiquated .Net 2.0 website presence.
Senior Integration Developer, Neokinetics Corporation -- Nov 2006 - May 2009
Responsible for development and integration of proprietary user authentication and authorization behaviormetric security systems using PHP, Javascript, CSS, MySQL and Lighttpd. I also deployed and maintained Linux and OS X servers for development, email, backup, and file storage.
http://neokinetics.com
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Ebay Behaviormetric Pilot: I contributed to the building of a behaviormetric technology pilot program, delivered and assisted with the installation of the product onsite, and provided ongoing support for one of the largest user behavior tracking projects in order to improve buying and selling security.
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Rayetheon Behaviormetric Pilot: I helped build out an advanced username and password based behaviormetric monitoring service for a classified pilot program run through our companies government sponsor Rayetheon.
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Behaviormetric Demonstration Application: I built and deployed a username and text field monitoring service complete with self registration so potential clients could explore the concepts and features of behaviormetric monitoring in order to harden existing authentication systems.
Director of Information Technology, Tahoma Capital -- Sept 2005 - Sept 2006
Responsible for management and deployment of all information technology systems including Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, Exchange, Cisco networking, Bloomberg terminals, VOIP phone system, and MySQL servers in order to support a 20 person 246 million dollar hedge fund.
http://tahomacapital.com
Developer, Agent Science Technologies -- June 2004 - Sept 2005
Responsible for development and deployment of content management and web based search applications for US Government institutions using a mix of PHP, Perl, Javascript, CSS, and XHTML on Linux and Mac OSX Server systems. I also deployed and maintained internal information technology systems.
http://agentscience.com
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IDIQ Search Portal Interface: I built a web based front end to an artificial intelligence data mining engine using PHP, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
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Amber Alert Pilot: I built one of the first web based Amber Alert portals in PHP using the CAP XML standard for message consumption and generation. This pilot progam was pitched to several goverment agencies.
Web Developer & Manager, Amazon.com -- June 2000 - June 2004
Responsible for migrating significant portions of Amazon.com's code base from a propriety in-house system to the open source Perl/Mason technology. I also managed seven developers directly for over a year as the development manager for the books, music, video, dvd, and magazines product team. I worked extensively with the search and browse team on improving customer experience, as well as the buying and onsite support team improving checkout and post order help systems.
http://amazon.com
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Detail Page Technology Migration: I last year and a half at Amazon was spent migrating detail page template and content technology from an antiquated C-based macro language to Perl/Mason.
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Holiday 2003 Code Controller: I spent an entire holiday season evaluating code and business requirements in order to insure maximum uptime during the holiday shopping season.
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Search and Browse Redesign: I spent my second year at Amazon workign with the Search and Browse team improving the user experience developing and running numerous A/B tests in order to maximize how quickly we could get users to commit something to their cart.
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Detail Page: My first year at Amazon was spent cleaning and tightening up the various iterations of all the product detail page templates powering a massive catalog of disparate information.
Web Developer, Medinex -- May 1999 - May 2000
Responsible for user interface design and development of a web based HIPPA compliant medical office management application using JSP and DHTML technologies. I also represented the company at trade shows as a technical consultant including NetWorld Interop.
http://medinex.com
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Practix: I helped build the first application service provider ASP based online medical practice management application.
Web Developer, Netivation -- May 1998 - May 1999
Responsible for design, development, and production of a daily political online news portal and 50,000 subscriber mailing list using Perl CGI on Linux systems.
http://netivation.com
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CapitalWatch: I built a Perl based CMS in order to automate the publication of one of the webs earliest political news zines.
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Votenet: I built one of the first independant web portals to consume the newly released thomas.loc.gov information portal content. The portal would match users based on zipcode and address to their congressional reps and provide a daily snapshot of their votes and Hill activity.
Education
North Idaho College, Computer Information Technology -- 1995 - 1998 (no degree)
University of Idaho, History -- 1994 (no degree)
Technical
HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Perl, PHP, .Net, RoR, XHTML, Ajax, SVN, GIT, MVC, CQ5, Code Igniter, Etomite, Word Press, Drupal, Shopify, Magento, Textpattern, MySQL, Apache
http://joecode.com/index.php/resume/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joewils
http://www.zerply.com/profile/joewils/public