SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. - Software Engineer III ( softlayer.com )

June 2011 - Present

TBD.

Speed FC, Inc. - Software Application Architect ( speedfc.com )

February 2007 - February 2011

Lead architect of teams whose responsibility it is to develop e-commerce, order management, fulfillment, and call center applications which provided an end-to-end systems experience for Speed FC's clients.

My time started as a senior developer responsible for hands-on development of platform architecture and porting of legacy code bases into a new platform with updated thinking. Both in terms of learning from the past, and the application of current industry advances.

Approximately two years into employment I was promoted as the direct manager of eight senior developers and ten junior developers. I was responsible for the daily development operations as well as architectural guidance. It became apparent the architectural guidance portion of my responsibilities required more focused attention and availability. Therefore my responsibility shifted solely to architectural guidance and future planning. I held that role until my departure.

Responsibilities included:

• Development and maintenance of core functionality for internal e-commerce platform which is run on the following sites:
  • The Limited
  • Shop Justice (previously LimitedToo.com)
  • ShopKo
  • Dress Barn
• Experience scaling e-commerce sites to tens of thousands of sessions per day
• Maintenance and development of the following additional systems:
  • Order management and associated reporting
  • Call Center order handling
  • Fulfillment systems integration (Manhattan's PKMS)
  • Designed and built a "RF picking" solution (wireless handheld device client and accompanying server for workflow management and performance reporting)
• Personally developed a PCI level 1 compliant payment handling system handling tens of millions of dollars a year (I later transitioned the maintenance and further development to a fellow developer)
• Integration with credit card processors, banks, and gift card merchants:
  • 5/3 Bank
  • Retail Decisions (fraud and payment)
  • Stored Value Solutions
  • PayPal (express and pro)
  • Authorize.net
  • Alliance Data Systems
• Management of development personnel in daily activities and knowledge growth
• Establishing long terms goals and aligning project to those goals as much as possible
• Began establishing workflow to include unit testing and continuous integration

Wieck Media - Web Application Developer ( wieck.com )

June 2005 - February 2007

Part of a small development team providing new development and support for digital newsrooms and supporting applications.

• Led the transition from legacy systems to more open and standards oriented technologies.
• Championed the development of an application framework for consistent, quality driven web-applications.
• Began instituting software development best practices in regards to documentation and source code version control.
• Primarily responsible for the following work:
  • PHP image processing daemon
  • HTML email distribution and click-through tracking
  • Toyota Pressroom (no longer my work)
  • Autodeadline.com.au
  • Australian Customs Video Database
  • Bikedeadline.com.au
  • Williams F1 Photography
• Configured and maintained deployment servers (MAMP)
• Implemented build system from Subversion repository and CLI based application maintenance/upgrade interface

Archose Systems, LLC - Founder/CEO ( archose.com/portfolio )

July 2002 - Present

Complete management of business processes, finances, and development. Archose Systems provides web-based application development, computer sales, and network installations to small business.

Currently the focus is on web site development and hosting.

Nortel Networks - Documentation Assistant

March 2000 - December 2000

Responsible for creation of documentation graphics and format conversion. Additional work includes project web page development and maintenance.