Career Profile

I currently provide clients with innovative and complete web solutions in Adobe Experience Manager/CQ. Development primarily in Java, JavaScript, and CSS using the Eclipse IDE and Maven. However I've developed across a multitude of platfroms including PHP/Java/Javascript, etc.

Experiences

Staff Engineer

2013 - Present
6DGlobal, Cincinnati OH

Provide clients with innovative and complete web solutions in Adobe Experience Manager/CQ. Development primarily in Java, JavaScript, and CSS using the Eclipse IDE and Maven.

Systems Administrator

2013 - 2013
6DGlobal, Cincinnati OH

Image new and re-appointed workstations for employees. Install, configure and maintain server systems. Troubleshoot application/OS/hardware issues on employee workstations. Perform Asset tracking for site. Support Adobe DayCQ/Experience Manager installation/administration on client server systems.

Web Developer

2011 - 2013
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights KY

As part of the IT Research and Development organization, code/test enhancements or fixes to web based applications. Additionally, working within content management systems utilized on campus and Microsoft Sharepoint. Provides professional, technical support to faculty, staff, and students. Coding done primarily in PHP and Javascript.

Technical Support Specialist

2008 - 2011
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights KY

Image new and re-appointed workstations for employees. Install, configure and maintain server systems. Troubleshoot application/OS/hardware issues on employee workstations. Perform Asset tracking for site. Support Adobe DayCQ/Experience Manager installation/administration on client server systems.

Projects

Below is a list of projects that I have been a member of, these are in order of oldest to most recent.


David Yurman - March 2016 -- June 2016 - Provided full stack AEM installation/configuration for two environment tiers on a cloud hosting platform. Configured instances for multiple third party integrations. Participating member of smoke testing and tuning sessions. Worked with multiple vendors to ensure the AEM stack worked as expected within the entire technology stack the organization was utilizing.
Lingotek Inside AEM Connector - Starting Jan 2016 - Performed development on Translation Connector integration using Java, Maven, Eclipse and Adobe Experience Manager 6.1. This allows CQ/AEM users to translate any specified content to any language through the use of Lingotek's translation API service.
ST Microelectronics - July 2014 -- Jan. 2016 - Performed back-end development in Java to customize AEM/CQ to meet the business needs of the company for one of the most technically complex implementations of AEM. Provided Linux system support for legacy environment as well as new AWS environment.
Lingotek Inside AEM Connector - Dec. 2014 -- Feb 2015 - Performed development on Translation Connector integration using Java, Maven, Eclipse and Adobe Experience Manager 6.1. This allows CQ/AEM users to translate any specified content to any language through the use of Lingotek's translation API service.
Xilinx - Sept. 2014 -- Oct. 2014 - Provided benchmarking and analysis of pre-production AEM instances. Performed heap dump analysis along with I/O benchmarking analysis on the hosting system. Was able to provide root cause analysis as to why the AEM instance was not meeting performance goals.
Academy of Art University - March 2014 - Performed component development for use within the new AEM system in use at AAU. Provided template development for use throughout the redesigned site. Performed bug fixes/enhancement development when needed. Most development performed using Eclipse IDE/Java/JSP/JS
Pearson Publishing - August 2013 - Provided systems support for multi-tier CQ deployment. Provided best practices guidance to systems team regarding multi-site mappings utilized in CQ for roughly 50 mini-sites along with dispatcher caching strategies.
FindIt! Directory (now Directory) - Redesigned the campus wide directory web application used by 2,000+ staff/faculty members and 15,000+ students. Previously written in Classic ASP with no documentation. Re-written using CodeIgniter PHP Framework and Jquery. Datastore: MSSQL.
Admissions Prospect Redesign - Designed system to replace legacy .NET based Admissions Prospect information gathering high traffic web application. Prospective Students use the application to request additional information/materials from campus admissions office. No source code or documentation to assists with functionality spec. of project.
Campus Campaign - 2012 - Re-implemented a campus campaign donations page from RSForms to a custom CodeIgniter PHP application. Form consisted of demographics and designations portions. Web Application used by 2,000+ Faculty and Staff to donate to the Campus. Complete with LDAP based login and auto-population of form fields based on MS SQL query.
Student Centered Online Orientation Project (SCOOP) - 2011 - Created a new online orientation website/application for the New Student Organization. This website would allow distance students to complete Northern Kentucky University's required New Student Orientation from the comfort of their apartment, home, couch, etc.

Skills & Proficiency

PHP

Java

Javascript & jQuery

AEM

HTML5 & CSS

Linux Shell

MySQL/MSSQL/PostgreSQL