
Alex Irizarry
Greater New York City Area

Alex Irizarry
Greater New York City Area
I started early utilizing my parents business to learn as much as possible about the new technology boom known today as the internet. After graduating high school I joined the United States Army. There, I learned electronics repair utilizing several methods to test, troubleshoot and repair the broken or damaged electronic boards.
In 2005 I was hired by Eaton Aerospace to help develop new technologies in the electronics industry. Working with a team dedicated to excellence we worked on projects for commercial aerospace and space projects. Meanwhile, my passion for all things internet still burned within while I worked on electronic equipment. I was building websites, scripts and software for several acquaintances.
In March of 2008 I accepted a position as the "Lead Programmer" for a search engine marketing company. The company has 40+ clients and I am usually interacting with their websites daily. This has provided the ability to work with several programming environments to expand my knowledge as a PHP programmer and also languages such as C,C#,C++. I have also had the opportunity to work with technologies involving ASP .NET.
BASIC, PASCAL, PHP, C, C++, C#, HTML, Javascript
(Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
I am the lead programmer for a 40+ client search engine optimization company. My main duties include implementing meta phrases and site content using several programs.
I update websites using several programming languages and techniques. Our main focus is to get websites to appear in the top spot of search engine results pages.
(Internet industry)
January 1994 — Present (15 years 7 months)
Growing up around my parents' business I was able to attain some programming skills as well as hardware knowledge. I would assist them with issues with their business computers as well as create small programs for them to manage their company budget and stock.
I was the SysOp of a 5 line BBS at nights that hosted information for games popular in that time period. If local players needed information about getting a special weapon for doom they knew where the source was.
This was an easy way to get into programming as it was becoming very popular among my social group at the time. I learned to code using DOS BASIC and PASCAL. These opened the door to other programming languages such as C and C++. Now over the last 2 or 3 years I have been working with C#.
It seems like it was so long ago but over the years I have attained other knowledge such as programming for web development. One language that I was able to excel in is PHP.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ETN; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
January 2005 — March 2008 (3 years 3 months)
Using talents learned while I served in the US Army I had the privilege to work alongside some of the brightest minds (IMHO) in the aerospace industry.
While employed by Eaton I had the opportunity to work on projects for commercial aerospace, space programs, electromagenetic interference testing and other unique projects.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USA; Military industry)
April 1999 — April 2003 (4 years 1 month)
While serving in the US Army I was able to learn a great deal about humility, leadership and a new respect towards life. My main duties were concentrated on electronic repairs of fire control systems on tracked vehicles.