Background

IT Services and solutions.

( Sorted In order of date began working with )

Fully custom E-Commerce solutions
Familiar with many popular commercial solutions
Created Member based hosting system
WordPress
- More custom plugins than I can remember
- Hooks/filter to extend WP and other
- Several custom WP based systems ( Dating, Scheduling, SEO automation, Page designers )
- Integration with 3rd party API’s
Building Custom E-Commerce integration systems

Wrote a Personal Auto Insurance rating application for Country Companies on Apple II
Worked for a Commercial Insurance software firm
- Bulding and maintaining Commercial Auto rating software for all states and numerous companies
- Lead programmer for Automobile rating application

Built a “Hot Synch” system for Novel Netware 68B servers
- Ran directly on the servers keeping a spare stnched with live server so when hardware failure spare could be instantly swapped
Seamless file transfer between platforms
- From any “seat” on any platform could copy files from any platform to another platform
- Before TCP/IP standards each platform had it’s own topology and protocols
  - Netware / DOS
  - Data General
  - HP/Apollo DomainOS
  - SunOS
Comprehensive Network/System/Aplication monitoring
- Monitor network connectivity
- Monitor critical nodes
  - CPU Utilixation
  - Disk space
- Distributed monitoring
  - Monitoring nodes communicated with their neighbors
  - When consensus showed monitor node offline could restart or move its duties to new node
- Application Monitoring
  - Did application run when it should
  - Did it exit without error
  - Did it use reasonable amount or CPU
  - Did it produce viable output
    - file size
    - keywords
  - Alert / Restart / Move capability
- Alerting / Escalating
  - Initial exception priority
  - Escaltion if exception not resolved
  - Actions based on current level
    - Logging
    - Restart
    - Move
    - Notification
      - Users / Groups based on level
      - Pop up notice
      - EMail
      - SMS

“Special Projects Engineer” for a cellular provider

Worked with vendor to design and implement fraud detection system
- - SunOS based
  - Combined billing records with real time cell site/switch data
Designed and implemented Cisco WAN between main office, switching sites and remote offices
- Converted X.25 [private] cloud to TCP/IP
- Carried X.25 traffic encapsulated in TCP/IP
- Migrate X.25 endpoints to Cisco routers with SYNC/Async ports
Beta test site for Nortel CDPD ( early IP over cellular system )
Setup firewall for connectivity between switch and internet
- Custom built hardware for Cisco PIX firewall to run on switch site -48vdc
- Private NAT based address assignment to client cellular devices
- Private network “block” assignment for commercial applications ( Electric meter reading )
Billing system conversion from batch import on IBM mini to real time import on HP/UX

Fully custom E-Commerce solution
- Multi-User management tool
- Multiple High volume, large DB driven sites
- Hosted on Self designed, implemented and managed servers
- Combination of GEO distributed physical Linux servers and Virtual
- Load balanced, custom built dynamic DNS
- Standby AWS instances added / removed from pool depending on current load
Extensive WordPress experience
- Built from scratch dozens of sites
- Custom themes/plugins countless sites
Created Member based hosting system
- Creates new WP sites automatically ( 50+ sites )
  - Domain registration
  - Server configuration
  - WordPress customization and initial content based on user choices/input
Custom E-Commerce management and system
- Manages whole process
  - Procurement
    - PO Generation
    - PO Integrated with Inventory system
    - Manual PO creation
    - Automatic PO creation based on stock levels and sales forecasting
  - Inventory
    - Real time inventory synch to multiple platforms
  - Order fulfillment
    - Real time order import
    - Bi-directional updates from multiple platforms ( Mostly Asia; Shopify, Shopee, Lazada, TikTok, Etc.)
    - Offline order import via platform API or CSV
  - Customer Management
  - Communications
    - Status updates via email or SMS
    - Promotions
  - Real time dashboard
    - Orders
    - Forecasting
    - Profit
  - Reporting
    - Many Stock business reports
    - Custom report designer