I architect and create secure, scalable and useful internet applications. I make business decisions, manage projects, develop databases and write code.
Qualifications:
15 years experience: internet & e-commerce development, project management,
Site & systems architecture,
Database design, development & maintenance: MS SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Oracle
Team leadership, personnel management, hiring, mentoring, playing nicely with others,
Senior technical/web architect for the City of Guelph, ON Canada.
Developed geographically redundant, high-availability web server architecture and implementation plan for the City.
Provided cost/benefit and risk analyses of in-house (VMware) vs. cloud-based hosting for City sites.
Visa
Architected and developed a power forms generator used by Visa for PCI compliance of member banks.
Floorshop.com
Developed Floorshop.com from the founder's idea into a successful, high-volumr e-commerce site, over six years.
Scaled successfully from a startup to 8 figures in annual sales without a significant rewrite.
Managed most technical aspects of the site until it was acquired in 2004.
Bullhive
Conceptualized, designed and built a product which uses Amazon's Cloud (EC2 and Route 53) to provide on-demand processing power to financial markets.
TELUS Security Solutions
Provide and manage a team supporting 24x7x365 uptime to TELUS security products,
Support complex PCI-compliant web systems architectures.
The Marco Corporation
Providing ongoing senior-level strategic guidance across many aspects of IT.
Architect and developed improved software development lifecycle.
Provided recommendations on hardware, software, network redundancy, software design and development.
Security audit of web systems.
Trained staff on object oriented development, 3-tier systems, and other subjects.
Identified an opportunity and implemented a project using an open source application server stack to save tens of thousands of dollars in license fees.
Igloo Software
I was brought in to solve a specific uptime issue. I resolved the problem in under 45 minutes and worked with them for another year.
I kept an outdated, inherited, undocumented web system, relied upon by over 100,000 worldwide users, running until we could migrate it to its new owner.
Others
Designed, architected, project managed and/or developed many other e-commerce systems with up to millions of products (e.g. entire ISBN, CD, and movie catalogues).
Created open source dynamic ORM (object relationship mapping) CRUD (create/read/update/delete) scaffolding tool for ColdFusion/Railo.
Wrote ColdFusion's open source implementation for Amazon's Route 53 DNS provider, recognized by Amazon.
Bullhive: Founder and developer of Bullhive, a service providing computing resources for financial modelling.
TELUS Security Solutions: Assembled and manage a team providing 24x7x365 uptime support for two TELUS security products. Development and maintenance of credit card security software.
Policy Medical: Maintaining ColdFusion-based code, new development, client installations and updates, managing customer technical support.
The Marco Corporation: Senior-level technical recommendations, security reviews & implementations in ColdFusion, Railo and MS SQL Server.
Igloo Software: Maintained Dgroups worldwide collaboration site. Management of other in-house projects.
Visa - Architected and developed powerful form generator using ColdFusion and MySQL, according to specifications. Target audience was Visa member banks.
AT&T Wireless Developed intranet applications for their Customer Base Marketing team using ColdFusion 5 and Oracle 8
Floorshop.com - Technical management, development & systems architecture. FloorShop is a very successful e-commerce site, using ColdFusion MX and MS SQL Server 2000. I built the site in 1998, and was responsible for most technical aspects until 2004 when the company merged with another.
Built interface between T-Online and IP Dynamics' VPN using Java Servlets, JSP, Tomcat & Struts.
Various other projects using ColdFusion and MS SQL Server. Includes work with WebObjects, Burlington Containers, SuperWarehouse, Online Building Products, and others.
Senior Technical Developer/Architect
StyleLogic/FirstHost - San Diego, CA
August 1998 - December 2000
Team/Lead Developer/Architect, depending on the project
Site
Architecture & Database design for contract and "proprietary"
sites.
Performed Sales Prequalification and Support
Wrote Proposals and Contracts
ColdFusion
Experience (3.0 - 4.5 Professional & Enterprise): Full range of
Functions & Tags, Server Setup & Maintenance, Custom Tags, ODBC, OLE
DB, Internet, e-Commerce, Intranet, B2B, EDI, Front-End, Back-End Development
Experience.
Microsoft SQL
Server (6.5, 7.0, 2000) Experience: Stored Procedures, Database
Architecture, Creation, Maintenance, Performance Tuning, ODBC, OLE DB, OLAP,
DTS, T-SQL, etc.
Experience with Oracle, Microsoft Windows NT Server, Microsoft IIS, Javascript, XML, XSL, DHTML, CSS
Web Developer
Cox Interactive Media - San Diego, CA
February - July 1998
Responsible for
local technical aspects of San Diego Insider web site.
Experience with
Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Perl, Apache
First Virtual Holdings Incorporated - San Diego, CA
February - December 1997
Utilized my extensive understanding of electronic commerce to the First Virtual Internet Payment System into more than 20 merchants' internet commerce sites on a variety of platforms
Gained an
appreciation for the importance of the Customer Experience,
Developed CGI/Perl code, JavaScript, ColdFusion, etc. to facilitate merchants' implementations,
Implemented the First Virtual IPS into more than 20 merchants' internet commerce sites on a variety of platforms,
Developed
policies, procedures, and manuals for Implementation Department,
Experience with TCP/IP, HTTP, MIME, SMTP, POP3, SQL, etc.
Contract Development
Various Companies in California, Arkansas, and Canada
October 1996 - January 1997
Developed CGI/Perl code for a variety of web applications (shopping carts, search engines, etc.) running under NT, IIS, Apache, Solaris, etc.,
Useful experience in internet site definition and management.
Helped clients
define their needs and make their internet presence worthwhile
Student Engineer
Various 4-month "Co-operative" Assignments
January 1993 - August 1995
Benefitted from
two years of professional work experience in a variety of situations
Gained
significant MIS, database, internet and other technical experience
We first hired Andrew to assist our development team in implementing and
consulting on some new security techniques in our software development.
Andrew is very knowledgeable, conscientious and trustworthy. He was able
to solve our challenges fast with outstanding results.
We have been fortunate to work with him on numerous occasions since and we
value the working relationship we have formed.
