1. David Grooms
E11011 E River Road
Viola, Wi. 54664
608-629-5167
viadream@gmail.com
Objective I'm seeking a telecommute WebDeveloper position. I have extensive
web programming and database experience while working remotely.
Experience Eight LeggedMedia
Chicago, Il., Remote,08/2015 – Current
Lead Developerforpromotional products company:
Full stack LAMP with Ruby on Rails/jQuery/Bootstrap.
Multiple dashboards forAdmin, Suppliers,Distributors and
Sales team roles.
Ajax UI implemented with MySQL and Cassandra DB’s.
Dashboard Charts, live email stats, refreshing interfaces.
Interactive with multiple API’s using Streamsend and
Reachmail. Rails API feed forcustomerconsumption.
Web interface allowing customers to manage their own email
broadcasting with view stats and geolocation for clicks.
Admin ability to create and manage customerads for email
broadcasting through third party API services.
Supplier PDF uploading and conversionto searchable
flipbooks,available to distributors for creating custom covers
and redistribution.
Purchasing and order tracking system for email packages.
Drag and drop panels for ad designby customers.
PDF and XLS stat reports on the fly.
Auto registration and verification of distributors from emailed
productrequests.
Git versioning between dev and productionservers.
Star ManagementServices
New York, NY., Remote,08/2012– 07/2015
Web Developerfor large international sites including:
AGT International, 3i-Mind, 4-D Security, Sentillian.
Worked with remote teams worldwide on HR projects to bring
2. databases for 15 countries to sync with a Master DB.
Created 16 HR web reports including Excel downloads using
complexStored Procedures,C#, jQuery, KendoUI, Visual
Studio 2012,SQL Server Management Studio and TFS.
Created 10 tSQL Stored Procedure Emailers,filtered by
county, as Cron triggered Jobs for daily/monthly HR emails.
Installed and managed Lamp servers for dev, staging and
productionworkflow on Amazon Cloud with Ossec security,
Secure Certificates, sFTP,SVN. Installing for each company.
Created complete front-end Drupal sites for several
companies from PSD/PDF provided by designteams. Using
PHP, jQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap,with Responsive Design.
Created a 30 page SharePoint sub site for AGT International
as their Branding Portal. Also the AGT home page affects.
Managed updates and changes to all sites on a daily bases
through emails, Lync and morning SCRUM meetings for
Lamp, Drupal, WordPressand SharePoint platforms.
Edigita
Minneapolis, Remote,02/2012-08/2012
Web Developerfor hosted client sites, front and backend utilizing
PHP, jQuery, CSS, MySQL on Rackspace cloud sites.
Designand programming changes through proprietary CMS
and Word Press,and standard PHP5 sites.
In house developerforonlineofficesystem.com,migrating to
new platform, implementing new CSS designchanges and
developing Ajax driven dashboards with filters and sorting.
Created Mobile Office Taskand Referralsystem for mobile
sales force.
USAePay dashboard module for credit card processing.
Google maps,geo-locationand analytics.
SuppliersFlyers.com
Wisconsin,Remote,08/2011 – 01/2012
Site for hosting all American products.
Client interfaces include registration, uploading product art,
flyer creation and product hosting, click stats, shopping cart,
invoices, flyer customize and forward, new lead interfaces.
3. Admin interfaces include live dashboards for client order
tracking, purchasing and invoice management.
Sales calls tracking dash with email templates for sending,
connected SendMail to mySQL for receive to db.
Auto posting to Twitter and Facebookintegration.
Digital magazines for flip-booksuppliercatalogs.
New Lamp install on Ubuntu host. Ruby, Rails, PHP5,
mySql, jQuery, Prototype,phpList, SendMail, SugarCRM,
Mantis, osTicket.
PayPal API shopping cart interface.
Intergam Online
Chicago, Il., Remote,02/2010– 07/2011
Subcontractor developing applications for Software Alliance
Corp and Readoz.com using Groovy/Grails MCV,
SpringSource ToolSuite and plugins, Tomcat, Java,
JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, team software including: SVN
versioning, Mantis bug tracker, Google,Zoho,winMerge.
Created fire inspectioncompliance software having custom
forms creation forinspectors in each fire district.
Installed Lamp, mySql, phpList on Ubuntu for mass mailing.
Created Adobe Air widget that interacts with proprietary page
flip system hosted by Readoz.com
SB-Direct.net,Web Developer
Chicago, Il., Remote,05/25/2009– 02/2010
SB-Directis a business-to-business email company that facilitates
contact between suppliers and distributors within the promotional
products industry, sending out
1.5 million Emails per month.
• Rebuilt legacy ASP classic and PHP back-ends into a single
Ruby on Rails web application, managing email ad creation
and client access to stats.
• Managed migration of 38 dot coms and mySQL data to new
servers.
• Integrated jQuery and Prototype.js JavaScript into ruby on
rails for Ajax, uploader, auto-complete,charts and data-grid
pagination.
4. • Interfaced with Zrinity cold-fusionand StreamSend email
servers api using XML for email statistical reports,parsing
XML responses into charts and grid displays into Ruby on
Rails.
• Rewrote existing PHP email forms using SendMail to
interface with mySQL.
• Repaired jpGraph system for PHP charting.
• Built online image mapping page for hot-linking uploaded
images and storing link co-ordinances as text into the
database.
• Created php sister site supplierspecial.com tied to common
db. Using PHP5, jQuery, mySQL.
• Adapted PHP XML as RSS feeds to supplierspecial.com
promotional ads interfacing with promodesktop.com Adobe
Flash widget.
• Developeda template system using smarty-tag type parsing
for dynamic ad creation, enabling a ‘customize and forward’
feature.
• Developing site: xpressmail.com having credit card system
to interface with off-site 3rd
party email system.
• Developedaccounting and billing systems for purchasing
and order tracking.
• DevelopedSales Call Board integrated with all systems.
Alexander,Morford& Woo, On site, Web Developer
Seattle, Wa., on location, 09/16/2008-12/05/2008
• Created web applications with SQL 2005;using Visual
Studio 2008 with C#, asp.net, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax.
• Multi-threaded searches using data scraping for competitive
quotes then reformatting data to front-end tier, stream-lining
wholesale insurance web application process.
• Utilized .ashx and Ajax to serve dynamic web pages stored
in database. Also, secure login to database and forms for
picture & documentuploading system.
• Added AutoCompletesystem reading from XML file for
suggesteddocumentloading into forms.Also, AutoComplete
using SQL.
• Ajax reader for recent hits XML file that randomly selects
5. titles and links for display.
• CSS buttons and style sheet formatting on the front end.
D/s Designs, Remote,Web Engineer
London, England, EU, Remote,12/2006–10/2009
• Developmentof virtual 3D gaming systems written in LSL (c
based mono). Created a variety of scripted virtual products.
• Created interfaces betweenLSL code (in world) to interact
remotely using PHP/mySQL/XMLRPC/Curl/Rubyon Linux
servers (out world).
• Daily database administration.
• Provided tech support for productend users.
• Developedhelp-ticket system for other tech support
assistants.
• Hosted and managed the productfeatures and
specifications website.
• Ported PHP system to C#/ASP.NET web server with
msSQL 2008 using new AJAX driven product features.
• Wrote Speechtranslator for 6 languages.
• Created 3-D Web-Phone interface for Skype.
• Created Advanced animation system using parsed voice
recognition commands.
• Created Web/Database integrated monitoring system.
• Ported 100 artificial intelligence programs from ASP and
JavaScript into LSL,PHP5, CURL, and XMLRPC and Ruby.
ViaDreamCorp.,Web Developer
La Crosse,WI,2001–2006
• Consulting and custom web page designand hosting for
commercialclients.
• Developmentof remote projectmanagement software.
• Custom CMS software for hosted websites.
• Provided tech support for end users.
• Speechrecognitionsystems forwebsites for clients using
XP Pro.
• ASP/VBScript/PHP/JavaScripton several remote Linux
servers.
• Developedan open access db of multi-model artificial
intelligence triggers for use in concurrent and diverse online
6. applications using voice controls.
• Wrote Programs by voice in classic ASP.
• Created AddressBook to Skype by voice.
• Search Google by voice.
Mindx Corp.,President/Developer
Chicago, IL, 1997–2000
• Managed programmers and network administration as
Internet Service Provider using dial-up/ISDN.
• Setup network, Linux & NT servers, IIS,Apache, SQL &
mySQL. Languages used were ASP classic, PHP, and Perl.
• Created core code for client access management system for
internet access,credit card gateway, shopping carts, and
email system.
• Handled tech supportfor new clients setting up dial-up and
email services.
• Provided platform for serving web video broadcasting and
onsite ISDN installation for cameras.
• Succeededin establishing a new and growing company
providing ISP access when internet and video broadcasting
technology was first expanding to the public.
Logan Square PestControl,Business Partner/OfficeManager,
Chicago, IL, 1995–1997
• Creation and management of software and database for in-
house business accounting system. Used R:Base DB
system.
• Provided reports for field technicians for routing, drive-logs,
time-sheets.
• Collected and entered all data, prepared reports formonthly
and year-end delivery to professionalaccountant services.
• Prepared and submitted contract proposals forCity of
Chicago and other commercialcompanies in the Chicago
area, i.e. Hospitals etc.
• Secured contracts for providing pest control services for City
of Chicago, fire departments,bridges and Airports.
MC Chicago,Programmer,
Chicago, IL, 1990–1995
7. • Developedfront desksystem for handling all aspects of
membership managementfor 300,000 members.
• Employee shiftmanagement and time-sheetreporting
system.
ConsolidatedRecovery,Programmer/Database Admin,
Chicago, IL, 1986–1989
• Created software for all aspects of a debtcollectionagency.
• Data entry forms and report system for debtorinformation
management.
• Phone sheets for collectionagents.
• 5 way receivables accounting system for cash collections.
• Receivables reports forclients.
• Business income and accounting reports for administration.
• Negotiated contract with Tele-CheckCorp. and several
hospitals in the Chicago area.
• DOS, RBase,tSQL.
Education ElectronicComputer ProgrammingInstitute E.C.P.I.,
Professional, Columbus, Oh., 1974–1975
Major: ComputerScience
Private computerinstitute using Univac 9200 and 029
keypunch systems.Studied: Basic AssemblyLanguage
(BAL), RPG, and Cobollanguages.
Wright Jr. College,
Chicago, Il., 1983–1985
Major: Liberal Arts
Studied a wide variety of classes in English, philosophy, math
and logic.
North Western BusinessCollege,
Professional,Chicago, Il., 1984–1985
Major: Accounting
Studied business math and accounting to implementinto
programming software building at the time.
North Eastern University,
Chicago, Il., 1989–1990
Major: Math & Science,Studied Biology,Chemistry and Logic
Stanford University, 2011
8. Online Certified Course: Machine Learning
Skills Languages: PHP5,Ruby on Rails, classic ASP, C#, C, JavaScript,
jQuery, Ajax, mySQL, msSQL, tSQL(sprocs),.NET MVC, Python,
ActiveX, Assembly,CGI, Curl, HTML, Perl, VRML, XML, Linden
Code (LSL), SpeechApplicationLanguage Tags (SALT),
Multimodal Voice Recognition(grxml), XHTML, DOM, CSS,
Silverlight, gtk2, Flash, ActionScript,Flex3, Java, SVN, Git.
Software:Drupal, WordPress, SharePoint, Photoshop, Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010-15,.TFS,SQL SMS, Dreamweaver, Microsoft
Access,R:Base, MicrosoftFrontPage, MicrosoftVisual Interdev, ,
ExpressionBlend, Eclipse,Aptana, DocumentProduction
Software, Adobe Creative Suite.
Complete sites:
http://www.4-dsecurity.com/
http://www.3i-mind.com/
http://staging.sentillian.com/
http://www.johnmeansgolf.com/
http://www.rfmoeller.com/
http://www.mppoa.com/home.php
http://cubiclesplus.com/
http://www.anklefootmd.com/
Front pages only:
http://www.agtinternational.com/
Extensive backend for this company with C#/.Net and SharePoint .