During the pandemic and while waiting for Canadian Permanent Residency, I determined the best course of action would be to temporarily return home. I used that time to familiarize myself with new technologies and work on personal projects. I also had the opportunity to assist community members with setting up and fixing various technological aspects of their businesses (free of cost).

• Familiarized myself with new and different technologies such as Docker, Arch Linux, NestJS, and Web3, just to name a few.
• Made progress with a Modular .Net Core server application and a modular Angular front-end template I have been working on as a personal project.
• Got an open-source VS Code extension for managing and applying application profiles close to MVP (Minimum Viable Product).
• Assisted many community members and friends with their technology related issues.

Lead a cross-functional effort to streamline the order management process, in order to improve user experience for employees and customers. Designed to scale to multiple warehouses and international offices.

• Established the platform and frameworks, to provide extensibility and modularity as application requirements rapidly change.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with stakeholders in finance, customer relations, order management and shipping, to scope production requirements, and deliver features on time.
• Played an active role in UI design and application development, based on existing system flows, with stakeholder input on areas of improvement.

Overhauled the existing HTML 4, non-responsive, static page sites and implemented a dynamic page system where users could build pages, utilize preset templates, and modify catalog entries. These websites facilitate 1000's of users and 100's of orders a day, in both the United States and Canada.

• Drove iterative website design utilizing user experience and closed-group user testing.
• Authored and maintained backend code utilizing PHP in the Codeigniter framework.
• Collaborated with the System Administrator to prepare the server's running Apache web server on CentOS 7 for website deployment.
• Configured an Apache SOLR catalog search system, with several language processors both standard and custom, to give users the best search experience, increasing overall sales of less visible items by 50%
• Coordinated system deployment to reduce down time, to have virtually no user impact.

• Refactored PHP codebase to reflect the new Fury domain registration flows without impacting the end user experience.
• Coordinated PR & communication to inform users of expected down times, via e-mail, website banners, and other channels during key maintenance periods.
• Deployed the refactored system on day of launch, providing detailed testing through unit and black box tests, before releasing to users, resulting in no user impact.