
Senior Software Engineer at First American CoreLogic
Sacramento, California Area

Senior Software Engineer at First American CoreLogic
Sacramento, California Area
Senior software engineer with a passion for creating simple, usable and elegant user interfaces. Advocates standards, efficiency and best practices while maintaining adaptability for change and innovation.
Enjoys architecting software applications and discovering solutions to complex problems. Strong troubleshooting skills with a breadth of knowledge in a variety of computer related areas.
Skills: System Architecture, Programming, Web Development, Application Development
Languages: PHP, JavaScript, Java, Perl
Markups: XHTML, CSS, XML, JSON
Experienced with: Ajax, jQuery, WordPress, Struts 2, Apache, MySQL, Eclipse, and a variety of other open source software projects.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
• Set UI standards to ensure consistent design throughout the application.
• Defined and enforced usability principles.
• Designed and built a JavaScript API using jQuery that provided other developers with a simple interface for advanced client-side features and functionality.
• Designed the application architecture, configured the framework components and determined the technologies to be used for development.
(Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — Present (7 years )
• Developed a cross-browser modal dialog plugin, SimpleModal, for jQuery.
• Developed an Ajax contact form plugin, SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF), for WordPress.
• Developed a Drupal module based on the SMCF WordPress plugin.
• Provided consulting and support for a wide variety of technologies.
• Developed an image gallery program, emAlbum, written in Perl. emAlbum is the top rated Perl image gallery program on Hotscripts.com and ResourceIndex.com
• Designed and developed EricMMartin.com using WordPress, where I blog about technologies and host projects I’ve released.
• Designed and developed emAlbum.com to facilitate the marketing and support of emAlbum. Site was developed in PHP utilizing a MySQL database.
• Own and administer a dedicated LAMP server used for projects and web hosting.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPSW; Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — August 2003 (2 years 9 months)
BS , MIS, Accounting , 1994 — 2000