| Dates | Role & company | Built with |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 2016 – Present | Senior Web Application Engineer Quality Logo Products Aurora, IL · Hybrid Back-end tools for the e-commerce + CRM platform; designed the double-entry AR/AP accounting system and the automated sales-commission engine. | ColdFusion 10, MySQL 5.6/5.7, T-SQL, Apache 2.2, JIRA, Subversion, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery |
| Jul 1995 – Present | ColdFusion Expert Independent Consultant Freelance ColdFusion SME, contributing author, and conference speaker on architecture, throughput, performance engineering, and scalability. | ColdFusion, performance engineering, scalability |
| Jul 2014 – Apr 2016 | Team/Project Manager & Senior Programmer Drafthorse Solutions, LLC Led engineering + QA on a retail/photo production suite used by Target, Walmart, Adidas and others; led hiring and modernized the SDLC toolchain. | ColdFusion 11, SQL Server 2012, T-SQL, IIS, Atlassian, Confluence, JIRA, GIT, Amazon EC2, Amazon ELB, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront |
| May 2010 – Jul 2014 | Consulting Lead Web Architect Thermo Fisher Scientific Greater Rockford Area Owned the Pierce Antibodies e-commerce presence and admin systems; ERP/CRM integration and Amazon S3/CloudFront delivery. | ColdFusion 10, ColdFusion 8, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, Windows Server 2008, IIS, Subversion, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, AJAX, SEO, Google Analytics, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront |
| Oct 2008 – Dec 2010 | Principal Consultant / Performance Engineer Webapper Services, LLC Scaled enterprise ColdFusion applications: hardware architecture review, app/database bottleneck analysis, development. | ColdFusion (all versions), SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, Windows Server 2008, UNIX, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, AJAX, Clustering, Load Balancing, Server Tuning |
| 2009 – 2010 | Technical Lead Wireless Advocates Co-led Costco's wireless e-commerce platform on a ColdFusion MVC framework of my own design; launched March 2010. | ColdFusion 8, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, Windows Server 2008, IIS, Flash, Subversion, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Scriptaculous, Prototype, XML, AJAX, SEO, Google Analytics |
| 2008 | Senior Developer Digital Primates IT Consulting Group Built applications with Flex, Java, SQL Server, and ColdFusion, including a Flex-driven online muscle car auction. | ColdFusion, SQL Server, Flex, Java, Hibernate |
| Oct 2002 – Oct 2006 | Lead Technical Architect Discovery Communications Lead architect and developer for unitedstreaming, the educational video streaming service acquired by Discovery in 2004. | ColdFusion 8, SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, SQL Server Replication, Windows Server, IIS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, AJAX, Clustering, Load Balancing, Server Tuning |
| Oct 2001 – Oct 2002 | Senior Technologist Remotesite Technologies Client-facing architecture, database design, and development; delivered ColdFusion performance analysis and tuning engagements. | ColdFusion, Spectra, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT/2000, IIS, Apache, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion Studio, Flash, ClusterCats, SilkPerformer, Visio, ERWin, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, WDDX |
| May 2001 – Oct 2001 | Technical Lead Duo Consulting Technical lead from client meetings through launch; mentored developers on design and development best practices. | ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, SQL, Windows NT/2000, IIS, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Visio, ERWin, MS Project, FuseBox, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, WDDX |
| Jun 2000 – May 2001 | Senior Consultant Allaire Mentored client teams on complex ColdFusion/Spectra application design and led development. | ColdFusion, Spectra, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT/2000, UNIX/Solaris/Linux, IIS, iPlanet (Netscape) Web Server, Apache, ClusterCats, SilkPerformer, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, ERWin, MS Project, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, WDDX |
| Apr 2000 – Jun 2000 | Technical Team Lead Quest Technologies Led the team building a large B2B e-commerce portal in ColdFusion and set its development guidelines. | ColdFusion, Oracle, Windows NT, UNIX, IIS, iPlanet (Netscape) Web Server, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, Visio, ERWin, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML |
| Aug 1999 – Apr 2000 | Senior Consultant Abbott Laboratories Technical lead for several large-scale ColdFusion intranet projects; mentor and ColdFusion SME. | ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, SQL, Windows NT, IIS, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML |
| Feb 1999 – Aug 1999 | Manager of Web Services Lockheed Martin, IMS Led design and implementation of a company-wide ColdFusion intranet with document management and collaboration. | ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, SQL, Windows NT, IIS, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, ERWin, MS Project, Net-It Central, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML |
| Apr 1998 – Feb 1999 | Technical Team Lead Guidance Solutions, Inc. Led small dev teams; ColdFusion e-commerce applications for clients like Foot Locker, Eastbay, and eMind. | ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQL, Windows NT, IIS, ColdFusion Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, ERWin, HTML, JavaScript |
| Jun 1996 – Apr 1998 | Web Developer Smith, Bucklin and Associates, Inc. Requirements through build for internal clients; reusable, configurable ColdFusion packaged applications sold to many clients. | ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, SQL, Windows NT, IIS, ColdFusion Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, ERWin, HTML, JavaScript |
| Jun 1995 – Jun 1996 | Web Developer Internet Professionals, Inc. Moved from sales into web development; first introduction to database-driven apps with ColdFusion and Microsoft Access. | ColdFusion, MS Access, Windows NT, IIS, Netscape Web Server, ColdFusion Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Visio, HTML, JavaScript |
Education
Illinois State University · Music Performance/Education & Computer Science · 1993–1995
Recommendations
Recommendations from managers, teammates, and clients are on LinkedIn. Excerpts from those, plus letters of recommendation from 2001–2010, are on the home page.