Professional Experience

IT Coalition required a Drupal SME with an understanding of community built modules and the ability to build custom modules and themes to help with a ongoing project with the U.S. Department of Justice. I came on board and documented recommended best practices for load blanaced servers for a drupal instance, created the drupal project base repository, a composer plugin library for testing commands and githooks, and a custom module for sharing secrets without using email. Also documented configurations for developer environment CLI programs such as Sourcetree, Git (githooks), XAMPP for local development, NodeJS, cURL on Windows, and PHP Composer.

Tesla required a senior Drupal developer to leverage the Drupal CMS for their website page building. My duties included learning the pipeline structure and upgrade Drupal core from v8 to v9, upgrade and patching of community modules, and improve deployments of distributable packages. In my first few months, I made improvements to the composer build of the project by reducing the time from 30 minutes to 5-6 minutes, approximately 90%-95% improvement across 2 projects. Near the end of 2021, migrated the project from v8.9 to v9.0. In early Q1 2022, I implemented build and deployment scripts to publish internal made Drupal module packages to on premises Artifactory service. Mid Q1 2022, A report of slow performance was reported and I was instrumental in discovering, documenting, and rectifying the issue that caused slowness on the page. I was able to conclude my employment with an upgrade of Drupal Core from v9.0 to v9.2 by providing appropriate fixes to deprecated methods.

Contract work with multiple clients.

• Migrated from managed hosting to new LAMP stack in AWS reducing costs by 75%.
• Developed Admin UI for web page creation in Expression Engine.
• Managed internal website development and changes.
• Developed against new API's from SalesForce.
• Analyzed requirements and designed, developed and implemented software applications for multiple websites.
• Developed landing pages, dashboards and online applications using Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and HubSpot.
• Researched new technologies, software packages and hardware products for use in website projects.

• Custom workflow and Drupal 7 module development.
• Reduced VM's from 25 to 8 through shared hosting of web applications.
• Implemented automation with webhooks and triggers between Jenkins and GitLab.
• Updated procedures for Drupal development using SAP API's for SSO.
• Introduced load balancing with HAProxy, KeepAliveD, and DNS configuration.
• Reduced costs by moving hosting to internal servers on VMWare
• Worked closely with clients to establish problem specifications and system designs.
• Partnered with stakeholders, including Analysts and Directors to minimize project delays.

• Led group of 4 engineers in design and development of WordPress based website, which was released ahead of schedule.
• Custom WordPress plugin development.
• Custom PHP, HTML. Javascript, and SQL with some C# for some clients.
• SAP ABAP and Smart Forms development (SD module).
• Network implementation from 15 users to 45 users.

• Created site layout and user interface using HTML and CSS practices.
• Collected, defined and translated user requirements into project designs and implementation plans.
• Tested websites and performed troubleshooting prior to deployment.
• Took concepts and produced design mockups and prototypes to strengthen designs, enhance user experiences and improve site interactions.
• Maintained strict budgetary and scheduling guidelines to satisfy customers with high-quality, targeted designs.
• Custom module, plugin, and theme development for Drupal and Wordpress.
• Ecommerce platform theming (Zencart, OsCommerce, UberCart).
• Network Administration for employer and customers (Exchange, IIS, MS SQL, MySQL, Router, VPN, PBX).