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• Senior Web Developer, Kingandmcgaw.com (previously Easyart.com)

  Feb, 2001 - Present15 years 8 months

  King & McGaw is a UK-based ecommerce website which sells art prints and posters worldwide. A recent overhaul of platform to a service-oriented architecture will position the company to offer their services to retailers through a standard API while continuing to power avariety of in-house and white-label commercial websites.

  • Helped design & write a service-based system to power a multi-language/multi-currency website. The new platform is comprised of many simple cloud-based services using Ruby/Rails, Backbone.js, and Elasticsearch using Heroku.

  • Refactored and added automated testing to a Backbone app which is the core of the public-facing business. The entire business depends on this single web page working as best as it can.

  • Helped construct a continuous deployment workflow where new developers could confidently push code on their first day. This was quite a leap forward from the old system.

• Software Q.A. Tester, McKesson Healthcare - Pittsburgh PA.

  Dec, 1989 - Dec, 19901 year

  Responsible for executing end-user and software test plans on robotics medication dispensing systems

• Contractor (design, server admin), AllergyCosmos

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 years

  Design and server administration. E-commerce website on the Magento platform.

• Contractor (technical SEO consultant), Guidepal

  Dec, 2010 - Dec, 20133 years

  Drafted URL structure and outlined SEO plan for which increased visitors by more than 300% in the following 2 months. Helped developers with the many changes and redirects, and managed the transition which saw no loss in SEO rankings for the businesses top keywords.

• Contractor (design, server admin), Arteposter (no longer trading)

  Dec, 2010 - Dec, 20133 years

  Coding, database, SEO. Arteposter is an Italian e-commerce website written in PHP (CodeIgniter) with a MySQL database and SOLR search engine.

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