Technical Lead
YAAB
Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months
Lead of the open source branch of the company. Developing in Drupal 7 on Acquia Dev Cloud.
Responsibilities: * Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for projects
and translating these into functional specifications within the Drupal framework using PHP. * Document
workflows and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from the business users on the specifications
* Technical architecture and management of internet solutions using open source software stacks such
as LAMP and the Drupal content management framework * Training Drupal to end-users and Drupal
developers/themers
* Extensive use of the Drupal API * Integrating Drupal with other web services * Migrating Ubercart
based sites to Drupal 7 solutions * Coaching the team and helping establish the open source branch for
the company * Gathering site/application requirements and developing Drupal solutions that meet them
* Performing application security risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reviews * Providing
leadership at clients surrounding Drupal best practices and development methodologies * Identifying
and cheerleading for opportunities to contribute to the Drupal community * Facilitating knowledge
transfer on Drupal best practices with multi-disciplinary teams * Managing offshore programmers *
Development on the Sitecore CMS platform * ASP.NET / C# programming * Responsible for the detail
design documentation, development, unit testing and maintenance of internally developed applications and
externally purchased software products * Perform unit testing and debugging and set test conditions based
on code specifications * Supporting application throughout the Product Development life cycle * Using the
NetBeans IDE in a collaborative environment * Development of websites on top of the TYPO3 framework *
e-Commerce websites development on top of Drupal Commerce, Ubercart and CS-Cart * Setup blogs using
Page2
the WordPress blogging platform * Development of Drupal sites in Acquia's Dev Cloud hosting service *
Applied several development methodologies - Agile/Scrum/Kanban/XP/TDD
Technical consulting services, my responsibilities included: * Architect enterprise-level solutions for
University needs * Varied aspects of client and project lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation,
and support * Building websites/web applications for educational institutions built using Zend Framework
10.0.9, Ruby on Rails 2.3, Drupal 6, Dojo Toolkit * Refactored existing sites using an MVC approach *
Employed NetBeans 6.5 as a collaborative development tool * Setup Citrix-powered virtual servers for
staging and collaboration by both remote and local teams
One of my favorite Drupal sites. My work here consisted mostly of theme development, along with some
modules to support presenting the compound content types in trendy manner. I've also worked on brand
development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and
alternative presentation systems. Some Drupal 6 modules I worked on while at ShooFeeTV have also
been released to the community. This website also received intensive performance work. I participated in
benchmarking and analyzing website performance issues and helping implement suitable solutions and in
planning and designing a W3C standards complying theme and database infrastructure. The website is http://
www.shoofeetv.com and receives constant updates. Other WWW achievements here include the TcheTche
Cafe website.
* Technical consulting work around PHP, Drupal and other web technologies * Developed several websites
using PHP/Drupal, Ruby on Rails and Zend Framework * Custom module development with strict adherence
to Drupal coding standards * Drupal Commerce work involving different payment gateway systems *
Theme development using Omega and Omega tools/Fusion/Zen * Laying out strategies for scalability
and performance in high traffic and data transfer scenarios * Acquia DevCloud deployments * Data/
content migration from CodeIgniter to Drupal * Extensive use of the new Drupal 7 API features such as
the Entity API * Design, development and implementation of online shop project with Magento and XT:
Commerce * Programming of individual Magento Extensions * Developed websites using TYPO3 with
custom extensions * Issue tracking, documentation, code management: JIRA, Confluence, Subversion,
CVS, Git, Emacs * Architect local and cloud-based solutions for large multimedia Drupal sites * Developed
community-driven web applications that allows users to share, rate and comment on learning resources
* Taught workshops on Drupal, PHP and standards-based, accessible, usable web design practices using
XHTML, CSS. Workshops were taught both in-person and as well as online
courses: Cisco Certified Network Associate Cisco Systems, Inc September 2008 to September 2011 Certified Drupal Developer
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