Andrew Shell

Current

• Junior Software Engineer at PBwiki
• PHP Engineer and Consultant at Andrew Shell: Freelance Consulting

Past

• GravityStream Implementation Developer at Netconcepts, LLC
• Application Developer at Clarity Technology Group, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Applied Tech

• Student at Herzing College

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Education

• Herzing College
• Herzing College

Recommended

4 people have recommended Andrew

Connections

120 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Andrew Shell's Weblog

Andrew Shell’s Summary

My specialty is in PHP and its related technologies. I've designed several custom web frameworks and content management systems. I have done custom development with existing open source software packages including WordPress, osCommerce, Zen Cart and SugarCRM.

Andrew Shell’s Experience

• Junior Software Engineer

  PBwiki

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• PHP Engineer and Consultant

  Andrew Shell: Freelance Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Custom PHP development and consulting. Some of the projects I've worked on include syncing data between different products, implementing data interfaces for XML web services, customizing osCommerce or Zen Cart e-commerce websites and custom WordPress theme and plugin development.

• GravityStream Implementation Developer

  Netconcepts, LLC

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  I worked deploying builds of GravityStream. GravityStream is a PHP based reverse proxy that optimizes large e-commerce websites for search engines. Typical tasks included reverse engineering the URL structures of these websites in order to implement custom logic to reduce content duplication and improve keyword usage in page content.

• Application Developer

  Clarity Technology Group, Inc.

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  I designed a PHP based content management system (CMS) designed primary for use in custom corporate intranets. Features included LDAP integration, in/out board and contact relationship management (CRM) functionality.

• Software Engineer

  Applied Tech

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  I built a custom PHP based content management system (CMS) that I customized and deployed to many clients. Some features of the CMS were simple like page editing, news and event postings. Other more complicated features included e-commerce, event RSVP and a business plan competition.

• Student

  Herzing College

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

  February 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  I was attending Herzing working towards my associates degree in computer information systems (CIS).

Andrew Shell’s Education

• Herzing College

  BS , Technology Management , 2005 — 2006

• Herzing College

  AS , Computer Information Systems , 2001 — 2003

Additional Information

Andrew Shell’s Websites:

• Andrew Shell's Weblog

Andrew Shell’s Groups:

•    Zend Certified Engineers
•    Madison PHP Meetup Group
•    PBwiki

Andrew Shell’s Honors:

Zend Certified in PHP 4 and 5

Jason Robert Waterhouse Award for outstanding academics and peer
tutoring.