Lead Software Engineer (PHP / Front-end)
CBS Interactive, San Francisco, CA Jan 2016-Current
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 Developer
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 Developer
SmallBizPro, Los Angeles, CA Nov 2014-Oct 2015
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 Developer
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 Developer
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.
