Developed complete front-to-back end, integrated web platform (above) that includes: content management system (data entry, editing, and publishing), online community (user profile creation, customizable playlists, chat, messaging and instant notifications, extensible asynchronous posting and commenting system), multi-category internal search engine, inclusion of data from several different API sources, and internal analytics reporting. Responsive design for desktop/mobile-based browsers.
Category: Web Development/Software Engineering/WordPress
Achievements: Created a full functioning, all-in-one, combination web community, portal, search engine, CMS, and hand-built analytics system, along with multiple iterations of customized HTML 5/JavaScript music players.
Developed/improved features for admin control panel as well as customer-facing splash portal websites. Handled essential integration of code (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP) from other developers into CakePHP-based application.
Developed and enhanced several MVC application features and admin tools, resolved bugs, wrote database queries, dealt with security and user fraud-related issues. Maintained rigorous adherence to coding standards, testing/test-case writing, and bug reporting.
Achievements: #3 technical person in company (liaison between CTO and QA team). Handled issues such as: region- and phone carrier-specific requirements (international phone number validation, integration of Spanish and Thai-language branches of the application), "Birthday Bonus" feature awarded to Facebook app users on their birthday, and many others. Edited and updated corporate website. Produced all graphics needed by company.
Japanese entertainment portal site featuring shopping, news, and interactive Web community. Focused on all aspects of Japanese pop-culture, including pop/rock music, animation, games, toys, movies, and more
Achievements: As CEO/Lead Web Developer, maintained a steady growth rate of 50% for three consecutive quarters in 2007 across multiple sales channels: music CDs, animation/movie DVDs, video games, posters, toys and figures. Increased traffic to ten times the level of unique monthly visitors from January to July 2005, with a peak Alexa ranking among top 180,000 sites on the Internet.
Send a Sweet Treat
Gift-sending application that allows users to send a virtual 'sweet treat' (cakes, cookies, ice cream, pies, fruit, etc) to their friends on Facebook
Member of lead development team that created consumer-facing web application site allowing users to submit and vote on photos of children wearing babyGap/GapKids clothing
Date: Fall 2010
Client: Gap
Category: Web Development
Aggrenote
Web app allowing users to sign in via Twitter, and take/share notes during live events.