Resume

Pineapple Products is a Direct to Consumer supplement formulation company. My role a Pineapple Products includes managing a team of developers and managing our fully distributed remote workforce through SaaS software.

Current Responsibilities include;

• Maintenance of company-wide user accounts and file storage through Google Workspace (formally Google GSuite)
• I manage a group of 6 people, four developers, and two data engineers.
• I manage and maintain our stack of 54 LAMP servers. 
• Developing, Maintaining, and updating existing and legacy web applications
• Weekly Reports to the CEO
• Plan and execute budgets and provide expense reports for Finance and Management Team
• Plan and implement quarterly goals that align with annual company goals and business targets
• Onboard and Offboard new and terminated employees
• Manage Slack integrations and services. (many software implementations use slack for notifications and integrated responses)
• Manage User accounts and permissions for most SaaS.

Major Accomplishments

• Migrated web hosting to reliable individual VPS servers and web deployment pipelines, increasing our security and reliability, and introduced automated failover and automated backups, all while reducing overall hosting costs by 62%
• I renegotiated 14 SaaS contract’s reducing costs by an average of 36%.
• Migrated over 150 domains to Google Cloud, repaired permissions, and set up DNS failover services.
• Migrated File Sharing Services to use Shared Drives in Google Workspace, correcting permissions and reducing exposure to unknown shared users.
• Set up Last-Pass for company-wide usage and increased security.
• SOP and Documentation for all services and procedures created, roughly 38+ documents to date.
• Migrated over 50+ cron jobs to a Cron Service for retry and uptime tracking.
• I set up first-party tracking servers for cross-platform data and conversion tracking consistency.
• Sold a portion of our business by separating all assets and working with the company buyer to ensure they could set up all sites and services on their infrastructure successfully.
• PCI Compliance testing across all public-facing servers

Software Services Managed and Used

• Google Workspace
• Interact with Google Workspace using GAM and “Got-Your-Back” for automating processes, backups, and restores.
• AWS (S3, RDS, EC2, etc…)
• Google Cloud Services
• Slack
• Visual Website Optimizer (Split Testing SaaS)
• Last Pass
• BitBucket
• Sticky.io, CRM, Recurring Billing, and Transactional API services
• PostMan for API documentation and testing
• GhostScript for Automated Deployment Testing
• VSCode/Nova – IDE
• Tower – Git Client
• Valet for the local environment.
• Uptime Robot
• Kount (Fraud Protection)

My current position focuses on leading an award-winning web team, researching and integrating new marketing technologies, and increasing ROI by monitoring and recognizing data patterns leveraged to create appropriate technology investments.

Additionally, I lead our Digital Strategy team, which identifies and executes large company-wide initiatives around our digital software implementation and reporting to business owners and stakeholders.

My current position incorporates all things Web and Marketing Technology. I work with a team of developers, designers, and content editors to support our web presence and digital marking. In addition, day to day, we all work to constantly improve the online distribution channel of our business (https://www.jpplus.com), to attract new customers and delight our existing customers.

Sites that are under my current purview include;

• https://www.jpplus.com (Magento 2)
• https://www.rowmark.com (Craft CMS)
• https://www.rowmarkllc.com (Craft CMS)
• https://rowlam.com/ (Craft CMS)
• https://vts.jpplus.com (Custom VUE Application)

Since I started working at Rowmark, the web team has grown to a group of 5, and our web presence is now a majority of the business revenue. Year over year, JPPlus has experienced a 30% growth in website revenue four years straight.

Internally we have recently completed a Magento 1 to Magento 2 transition for the e-commerce website, implemented a custom API to interface between Magento and our ERP.

As our business shifts more focus to our Digital Strategy, I have been allowed to spearhead many of the large projects and look forward to completion to enhance our business processes further.

Further Duties Include:

• Partners with leadership to identify marketing technology business requirements, establish a clear, consistent vision, and support the implementation of software and services through collaboration, influence, and enablement.
• Understand and set direction regarding the strategic position of marketing technology application(s), including ensuring the company has the required in-house or external expertise to support it.
• Manage all company web properties with assistance from the Marketing Department and the Web Team to ensure a consistent and high-quality experience: including company and contact information, products and services, photography, product descriptions, details, and images.
• Manage customer segmentation and personalization implementation across all marketing technology platforms.
• Perform account management of pay-per-click accounts on Google AdWords, Bing, and other search platforms.
• Maintain and report current privacy and compliance requirements related to consumer data within North America (e.g., CCPA) and Europe (e.g., GDPR)
• Track market trends and competition to inform product decisions and strategy. Report results regularly with a summary of marketing technology trends, concerns, and recommendations.
• Manage relationships with outside vendors for Marketing Technology implementations as needed.
• Research and evaluate vendors to fit identified requirements. Train and develop employees on marketing technology implementations and day-to-day usage.

Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve our AWS hosting infrastructure.  The Setup includes dual load balanced EC2 servers running behind an Elstiacache Redis install with a redundant RDS mySQL server.

Since the beginning of my tenure at Rowmark, The work I have contributed toward has increased the online revenue of https://www.johnsonplastics.com by over 100%. Load times have decreased substantially (from 14 seconds average to 3-4 seconds). 

I huge undertaking was implementing the instant search and the results are amazing, really give it a try!. I also recreated the corporate https://rowmarkllc.com on CraftCMS. This site was recreated and populated in about 20 hours total.  

I was hired as a senior web developer and primarily worked on custom development projects for our clients. Most of this work took previously coded PHP sites and added additional API and Custom Payment gateways.

For the first six months, most of my time was spent introducing new technologies, new workflows, and approaches to increase the quality and redundancy of all our projects. One of the more significant improvements includes an entire GIT workflow and training, setting up automatic deployments from GIT to our servers, Style Guides, CSS frameworks, end-to-end unit testing. I also introduced and trained the existing developers to Expression Engine for sites we are creating.

I played a crucial role in transitioning from Basecamp to Project Teamwork. I spearheaded company initiatives and moved many sites from several different hosts and hosting providers to consolidated VPS hosting with standardized environments. The server consolidation alone reduced hosts and hosting costs by more than tenfold and a documented performance increase for every site involved.

Near the final months of 2015, Neon Goldfish announced to their employees that they decided they would concentrate more on marketing and inbound sales using the HubSpot platform and move away from the complex setup and demanding clients of custom applications. As a result, my responsibilities transitioned into a more Project Management position and focused less on actual development.

The best part of my position is utilizing my experience to teach other team members new skills and create delighted customers.

Recently NeonGoldfish has been leading the charge in ADA compliance and testing. ADA enforcement was becoming a new development on the web, and recent legislation has passed laws that require sites to meet ADA requirements or face penalties. We are one of the few Inbound Marketing Agencies currently also providing ADA compliance services.

While my full-time position keeps me plenty busy I never shy away from additional work when it’s available. Below are some sites that I have created as the sole developer or designer My most recent freelance site is Battery Parks City Parks website http://bpcparks.org/. The coding is a WordPress site based on the Genesis framework. The Calendar plugin was extended to provide the proposed functionality This site was contracted to me as a super short time frame and includes quite a few custom plugins and alterations to existing plugins.

I have shot quite a few photos for different projects over the years here are a few examples.

I have also done a handful of print media for my local church who I am currently contracted through to do on-going work.

Guage interactive is a Magento Specialized Agency located in Savannah, GA. While employed at Gauge Interactive, I developed, maintained troubleshot various Magento and WordPress installations.

Guage used Basecamp as the primary way to assign work to its developers and interaction between developers and clients. Guage interactive has spearheaded many notable Magento sites such as Rebecca Minkoff and the Savannah Bee Company and was a primer for my solid understanding of highly performant Magento sites.

At Compassion Christian Church, I acted as the sole and only “Full Stack Web Developer.” I covered everything from multiple LAMP stacks to plugin development to front-end interaction. During my employment, Compassion Christian Church had about 12 websites that I maintained; 5 were ExpressionEngine, 3 were WordPress, and the others were hardcoded. I have written or extended a few WordPress plugins and a handful of Expression Engine accessories (a straightforward EE plugin)

While on staff at CCC, our team was recognized for our work on the “One Campaign” design for the non-profit category in “How Magazine“. This includes the entire design product; print, web, and display.

There was also a push recently at the church for a few mobile applications, so I have done a lot beyond simple RWD and created web applications designed for mobile devices. The most recent is a digital bulletin application built on jQuery Mobile that pulls information directly from the Expression Engine install over JSONP.

I covered much more responsibility than web development at the church. As part of the creative communications team, we all create many other things, including videos and other promotional materials. I spent a few days a month helping shoot videos for production pieces, both with camera operation and stage/shooting setup. I also spent time doing market research and testing for our materials.

1. I also did photography/videography for the campuses as needed, covering events, services, or the web. Here are some of the videos that I have played a significant role in the production of;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx70N19liag – Grip/Acting/Camerawork
2. https://vimeo.com/69648021 – Audio/Grip/Lighting
3. https://vimeo.com/56767571 – Camera
4. https://vimeo.com/40176176 – Lighting/Camera
5. https://vimeo.com/41156589 – Steadicam/Camera

I also did many photographs for my position, specifically of events or for use on the websites.

My role here was PC support specialist transitioned into a full-time programmer at the bank. Notable responsibilities include.

Cable Service and Installation technician. When I resigned from this position I had transitioned to a Service Technician which handled higher priority jobs and more skilled line maintenance.