LAMP, Drupal, App/Web Servers, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS
Name:
Sean Reiser
Location:
Woodside, NY
Phone:
347-321-4338
Email:
US Employment Eligibility:
U.S. Citizen
Summary of Qualifications
I perform technology consulting services to a number of New York City businesses. My specialties include developing desktop and web applications, and providing leadership to development teams. In recent years I have developed Drupal web applications for television programs, magazines, non-profits and small businesses.
Portfolio
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Selected Drupal Projects
DIYSeder
PBS
Built a Drupal 6 site to serve as the CMS for a Ruby on Rails frontend for pbs.org.
Developed custom Drupal modules for a website to support the This Emotional Life television program which aired on PBS.
Built FeedsAPI parsers and processors to import data from a number of PBS's services.
Built webservices using Drupal's ServicesAPI to export data to the RoR frontend.
Resolved scaling issues caused by spikes in traffic during airings of This Emotional Life by implementing APC, memcache and varnish.
Guideposts
Served as Lead Developer, Rearchitecting the Guideposts website
Evaluated the progress of an existing development project and developed a plan to put the deliver the project on time and budget.
Mentored staff in Drupal best practices.
Resolved scaling issues
Kaspersky Lab
Served as Archtect and Mentor for the Digital Agency developing Kaspersky's Community Website, developed in Drupal 6
Trained staff in Drupal best practices.
Garden and Gun
Served as Lead Developer for Garden and Gun, a Drupal 5 based web magazine.
Built Content Types, Views and wrote custom modules.
Trained existing staff in proper Drupal best practices.
24/Savvy
Built 24/savvy.com, a women's lifestyle site in Drupal. Site makes extensive use of CCK, Views, Advertising, UserPoints and Signup Modules.
Resolved scaling issues caused by weekly spikes in traffic by implementing memcache and varnish.
Responsible for routine server administration and maintenance.
Juicetyme
Themed, Developed and Implemented a brouchureware site in Drupal 6.x.
Developed nutrition label generator module.
World Cares Center
Developed, Enhanced and Maintained WCC’s RRN (the readyresponders network), a Drupal based social network used to manage NGOs responding to a disaster. The site makes heavy used of Organic Groups to allow NGOs ease communications between responding groups.
Coordinated the transition of RRN from the Department of Defense to the World Cares Center.
Trained WCC staff in administering a Drupal site.
Good Earth Beauty
Designed and Developed Good Earth Beauty, a Drupal eCommerce site. The shopping components of the site make heavy use of ubercart.
Brand Building Communications
Developed Brand Building Communications website in Drupal 6.
Developed Theme, Custom Modules
Bravo TV
Upgraded Bravo's website from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.
Instituted best practices in the drupal code.
Enhanced photogalleries to take advantage of Views.
Removed business logic from theme and implemented the logic in modules.
Other Experience
Interim Development Manager at Enfatico, a WPP Company
Architected Enfatico's back office systems, with an emphasis on streamlining business workflow while remaining in compliance with corporate and client regulations
Served as lead developer and technical architect of a job initiation system written in C#.NET using Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2005. This three tier web forms application allowed clients to request work from the agency and provided global visibility to work in progress reducing duplicate work by 45%.
Vice President, Information Systems at AST StockPlan acquired by Citi
Served as technical lead for a team of six local and 22 offshore developers.
Developed, supported and maintained in house stock plan management database applications written in Clipper, Visual FoxPro, and Xbase++.
Technical Officer at The Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation
Managed a team of 8 programmers.
Supported and maintained a mortgage origination system written in Clipper 5.2.
Lead Developer at thestreet.com
Supported and maintained a mutual fund rating system written in Visual FoxPro, C#.net, and Visual Basic 6.0.
Ported legacy Visual FoxPro database to SQL Server using FoxPro’s adaptive cursor technology in the applications to minimize the effect of the port.
Migration Engineer at IBM
Architected a port of a Clipper application to VB.NET.
Designed a scripting tool to translate code in an automated fashion.
Contract Programmer at The Clayton Group
Supported and maintained a loan review system written in Clipper 5.2.
Designed reporting system in Visual FoxPro.
Contract Programmer at Law Journal Information Systems
Maintained a vertical market application, which provided New York State docket information to law firms.
Enhanced UNIX based search engine to allow more flexibility in searching.
Contract Programmer at PCMS-Magnacare
Supported and maintained in house health care management database applications written in Clipper and Delphi.
Designed, programmed and implemented a CD based provider database application written in Delphi.
Contract Programmer at Verizon
Upgraded HR system enhancing security, reporting and data validation routines.
Support Technician at Computer Associates
Provided online and telephone technical support for the CA Clipper family of products.
Designed a suite of sample programs to illustrate the use of Clipper.
Skills
Web
Language
PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Perl, xBase (Clipper, FoxPro, dBase), C/C++, Unix Scripting
Drupal
Drupal Developer/Architect, Versions 5/6/7, Drupal SEO, Scaling Drupal Sites (using varnish, memcache, cacherouter boot and pressflow), CCK, Views, Ubercart, Organic Groups, Custom Module Development, Hooks, Custom Theme Development
xBase
Application Architect, Clipper, FoxPro, Harbour, xHarbour
Management and Leadership
Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Training, Mentoring, Code Review, Performance Review
Process
Full Project Lifecycle, Requirements Gathering, Use Cases, Build vs. Buy, Vendor Selection