Dave Ross

• Build Drupal websites and WordPress blogs
• Maintain a set of Drupal modules & server software for tracking sales leads
• Bulit & maintain an API and accompanying server, plus a sales lead management app leveraging the API
• Maintain custom framework for landing pages
• Write blog posts & short articles on web development & technologies we use
• Occasional LAMP server administration

• Maintain cat shelter website and landing pages
• Engage community and donors through social media
• Design & source printed materials (brochures, fundraising calendars)
• Video production
• PPC advertising
• Internal IT support
• Compile reports on site performance for the board of directors.
• Attend monthly board meetings with voting privileges.
• Help with shelter maintenance and cat care.

• Organized monthly meetings & arranged speakers
• Presented on PHP, MySQL, and software development topics

• Developed web sites and web-based applications in PHP using WordPress, Drupal, jQuery, and internally-developed frameworks
• Contributed to estimates and proposals
• Usability analysis
• Mentored junior developers
• Administered four Linux servers and two Windows servers

• Maintained PHP/MySQL car e-commerce site
• Developed Java/Oracle version of the site
• Optimized processes & platforms to shorten development time, including replacing Crystal Reports with the iText PDF library for sales form printing
• Light system administration

• Developed web app for internal users and partners
• Maintained & enhanced legacy "green screen" apps
• Provided 24/7/365 support for all software and systems
• Wrote technical specs for enhancing legacy apps, including interfaces between obsolete technologies and web services
• Documented formats & protocols for integration of new apps into a mixed environment
• Developed automated customer service system for automating common requests

• Met with clients to document business requirements
• Wrote technical specs
• Led teams customizing the company's flagship software package

• Coursework included networking protocols, operating system architecture, assembly language programming, and databases
• Bachelor's thesis on the need for digital identity systems and how to address Cameron's Laws of Identity in a practical system
• Graduated with honors.