Lead Software Engineer (PHP / Front-end)Jan 2016 - Present

CBS Interactive / Paramount, San Francisco, CA

CBS Interactive provides a global audience access to show content including cast, clips, stories, and online streaming of your favorite CBS shows.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple teams by facilitating their needs within and across other front-end, back-end, tracking and international teams.
• Team focus includes domestic and international purchase flow, account management, A/B testing, internal Customer Service Tool and Employment Benefits site.
• Participate in inception and architectural meetings with Design and/or Product
• Break down sprint projects into smaller tasks
• Code Review
• Help on demand via Slack messaging/huddles, Zoom meetings
• Management trainings, and One on Ones with direct reports
• Lead team breakouts for dedicated time to go over questions, upcoming features, breakdown projects, POC or just chit chat about anything
• Participate in daily scrum meetings, bi-weekly sprint planning, sprint review and scrum of scrum meetings.

Environment: PHP, Vue, NextJS/React, Nginx, Docker, Git, PhpStorm, Mac

Front-end DeveloperAug 2012 - Nov 2015

Surfline/Wavetrack Inc., Huntington Beach, CA Aug 2012-Nov 2015

Surfline provides the world with surf reports & forecasts including swell, wind, tide, buoy and other related weather data. Surfline's other properties, FishTrack and Buoyweather, also provide similar data, as well as fishing charts and fishing reports.

Responsibilities

• Participate in daily scrum meetings, weekly sprint planning and sprint grooming meetings.
• Develop and maintain RESTful API end points for desktop sites, mobile sites, and mobile apps.
• Develop Surfline forecast pages with JavaScript "forecast" object
• Develop Fishing Reports integrating with FilePicker.io JavaScript API
• http://www.fishtrack.com/fishing-reports/northern-california-region_58692
• Develop Fishing Charts using NOAA imagery data (AVHRR, MODIS, VIIRS, etc)
• http://www.fishtrack.com/fishing-charts/northern-california_58692
• Develop back end API for Fishtrack mobile app
• http://benefits.fishtrack.com/fishtrack_app_premium/
• Develop Surfline's "Wave of the Winter" and "GoPro of the World" mini sites
• http://www.surfline.com/gopro-of-the-world/III/
• http://www.surfline.com/wave-of-the-winter/2014-2015/
• Develop map view of surf spots using Google Maps integration
• http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/ocean-beach-sf-northern-california_4127/satellite-view/
• Use of prepared statements to prevent SQL injection
• JavaScript API integration with FilePicker.io, Google Maps, Leaflet Maps
• Develop Grads scripts, servlets and other JSP scripts
• Maintain Surfline's State Parks's platform
• Maintain Surfline's AngularJS mobile site
• Develop home page modal for new visitors
• Redis and Varnish caching
• Use of multiple CDNs, including secure CDN
• Cross browser testing
• Contest / Landing page development
• Bug fixes and Git branching

Environment: MS SQL 2005, ColdFusion 8 & 9, Linux, Apache, Macbook Pro, SVN, Git

Front-end DeveloperNov 2014 - Oct 2015

SmallBizPro, Los angeles, CA

SmallBizPro enables business owners to upload, store, and access their important organizational documents, files, financials, policies & procedures, and reports. SmallBizPro also allows vendors, such as banks, to search their client directory for the purpose of pre-approving business loans.

Responsibilities

• Create the site from the ground up using Bootstrap for a mobile friendly experience
• Media Queries for specific styles on Desktop, Tablet or Phone devices
• MySQL database and relational tables setup
• Prepared statements (queries) to prevent SQL injection
• Object oriented code
• Uploadifive integration
• Built-in JSON on Request for a custom API environment during Ajax requests
• Custom CMS to maintain products, events, workshops, industries, users, documents and more
• Various forms with JavaScript validation and calculations
• Custom e-commerce UI/UX
• AuthorizeNet payment gateway integration including subscriptions
• SSL installation, CloudFlare implementation, and Apache mod_rewrite rules

Environment: Windows, Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL, Git

Front-end DeveloperAug 2011 - Mar 2012

Interactive Tax Group, Newport Beach, Aug 2011-Mar 2012

Interactive Tax Group provides a directory of tax professionals, and tax related blogs.

Responsibilities

• Create WordPress CMS plugin based on mocks
• Create complex registration form for tax professionals
• Create searchable directory listings
• Payment gateway integration with recurring payments
• Customize WordPress theme and various plugins

Environment: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), WordPress

Front-end Developer2008 - 2012

Dermstore, El Segundo, CA 2008-2012

Dermstore provides a very large e-commerce system including subscription based products for the beauty industry, bulk targeted email campaigns, and various in-house developed beauty products.

Responsibilities

• Develop website and shopping cart system for the BeautyFIX brand
• Cut up and develop pixel perfect designs from PSD files
• Multiple redesign development
• Request various queries to the DBA
• Landing page development and iterations for A/B testing
• Create HTML emails and deploy to user base

Environment: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), ColdFusion, MS SQL, SVN

Front-end Developer

White Barn Group, Lake Forest, CA

White Barn Group was a full service Interactive Agency executing on creative brand initiatives for clients such as Del Taco, IHOP, Yoshinoya, Toyota, ABC/Disney, VitalStream and others.

Front-end Developer

EwingBeland, Monrovia, CA

EwingBeland was a full service Interactive Agency executing on creative brand initiatives for local clients such as Southern California Edison, Champion Broadband, Ventura Foods, and others.

Front-end Developer

Webcreators, Newport Beach, CA

Webcreators provides a proprietary web site building technology and private labels their software.