Recent Works
Experience
Creative Sizzle
-Lead Web Developer
Arlington Heights, IL | - Present- Rebuilt legacy custom-made CMS which is now based on Laravel / Winter CMS
- Decreased server resources needed with the newly rebuilt CMS: page load times were reduced by 70%.
- Improved the speed and capabilities to create client specific functionality into our CMS.
- Use Github Actions to automate code testing and improve reliability.
- Setup, maintained, and monitored all of the production servers/infrastructure.
- Converted office infrastructure from on-premise Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange server to a fully remote setup on GSuite (Google Workspace) allowing fully remote workflows.
Electrical Systems & Services
-IT Contractor
Sturtevant, WI | - Present- Supported employee workstations and fixed issues as they arose.
- Upgraded Windows Active Directory from server 2003 to 2016.
- Migrated Fortinet firewall to PfSense.
- Supported the company's on-prem mail server.
- Migrated from bare-metal Windows server to type-1 hypervisor running XCP-NG allowing services to be split up among multiple VMs (virtual machines). running Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS) servers.
Beakon Labs, LLC
-PHP Developer/Devops Engineer
Remote Internship | -- Setup, configure, and deploy all backend infrastructure using AWS for hosting and Laravel as the backend framework for the Nightstir mobile app.
- Automated code deployment and testing using CI/CD pipelines.
- Used Dokku as a self-hosted heroku-like infrastructure allowing all of the back-end code to be deployed with buildpacks and dependencies defined within the git repo so builds were repeatable and predictable.
DePaul University
-B.S. Computer Science
Chicago, IL | -- Concentration in Software Engineering
- Member of Fundamental Research in Academic Gaming (DeFRAG)
Skills
Web Development
User Experience
Linux Server Administration
Technologies & Software
Languages
SCSS/CSS
90%JS
70%SQL
80%PHP
90%
Frameworks
Laravel
80%Winter CMS / October CMS
95%Tailwind CSS
90%
Tools
PhpStorm
95%Git
90%Linux
90%