Guillermo A. Fisher

Senior Web Programmer at Dominion Enterprises

Norfolk, Virginia Area

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Education
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brooklyn Technical High School
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Guillermo A. Fisher’s Summary

Developer with several years of diversified web experience, particularly interested in applying software engineering best practices, user-centric UI design, and the latest web technologies to the creation of attractive, effective, and efficient solutions.

Guillermo A. Fisher’s Specialties:

* Web Application Development (PHP/MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
* Web Service Development (SOAP, REST, SOA)
* Information Architecture
* Database Interaction (MySQL, Oracle, Query Optimization)
* User Interface Design
* Web Standards Compliance (WCAG Priorities 1, 2 & 3)

Guillermo A. Fisher’s Experience

  • Senior Web Programmer

    Dominion Enterprises

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    November 2009 — Present (1 month)

  • Software Developer

    Gannett Media Technologies International

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2008 — November 2009 (1 year )

    * Collaborate with the project technical leader, product manager and other project team members.
    * Develop project plans and manage project priorities to achieve corporate objectives.
    * Communicate with internal and external customers to understand and gather requirements, research technical solutions, and provide ongoing project updates to stakeholders.
    * Contribute to architecture and design, coding, testing, documentation writing, and other development activities
    * Conduct project stakeholder reviews
    * Deliver quality software and technical documentation to production based on stakeholder requirements and ensure the requisite deliverables adhere to GMTI tools and processes standards
    * Provide ongoing requirement change management analysis and delivery for software defect and enhancement requests
    * Manage vendor relationships

  • Owner

    Surfacade, Inc.

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1999 — January 2009 (9 years 6 months)

  • Programmer Analyst III

    Cox Auto Trader Publishing

    (Automotive industry)

    April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

    * Developed and maintained a flexible OOP, PHP5/Oracle framework for the rapid deployment of web applications.
    * Designed and developed a PHP/Oracle web-based administrative console used across the nation by the company's local office administrators.
    * Maintained Coldfusion/HTML/CSS applications.
    * Developed a J2EE web service and HTML/JSP test client.
    * Developed BaSh scripts for monitoring systems and automating tasks.
    * Utilized several web technologies & methodologies: XHTML/CSS, PHP 4 & 5, Apache, Linux (Fedora Core, Mandrake), Unix, JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, SOA, OOP, Web standards compliance

  • Technical Director/Lead Developer

    Elevate LLC

    (Graphic Design industry)

    July 2006 — April 2007 (10 months)

    * Designed a web architecture that married the company's proprietary content management system with the CodeIgniter PHP framework, resulting in the speedy deployment of web applications.
    * Managed a small team of contractors in support of several web-related projects.
    * Utilized several web technologies & methodologies: XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, XML-RPC, CodeIgniter, AJAX, jQuery, Prototype & Scriptaculous, SIFR

  • Programmer Analyst

    Harris Connect, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)

    Involved in all aspects of the development of a phoning application user interface, employing Java and JavaScript to interface with internal systems. Re-designed one of the development team's administrative tools.

  • Web Programmer

    Trader Publishing Company

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Online Media industry)

    January 2005 — January 2006 (1 year 1 month)

    Responsible for the development and maintenance of major parts of large-scale websites, including the Sell Your Car portion of Autotrader.com. Developed and maintained several internal Oracle-based web tools.

  • HTML Programmer

    Trader Publishing Company

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Online Media industry)

    November 2004 — January 2005 (3 months)

    Optimized websites for speed and web standards compliance. Developed and maintained parts of large corporate web sites.

  • Graphic Designer

    Framing Success

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    March 2004 — November 2004 (9 months)

    Produced company marketing collateral. Developed a web-standards compliant mini-site for one of the company's newer products.

  • Web Developer

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

    November 2002 — January 2003 (3 months)

    Developed and designed several components of a health and wellness web portal for MIT students.

Guillermo A. Fisher’s Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Theoretical Mathematics 1997 — 1999

    Activities and Societies:
    National Society of Black Engineers, Black Student Union, Chocolate City, LeaderShape Institute

  • Brooklyn Technical High School

    New York State Regents Diploma , Mechanical Engineering , 1993 — 1997

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Guillermo A. Fisher’s Interests:

Christianity, theology, art, design, graphic design, creative writing, poetry, fiction, application design, information architecture, web application frameworks

Guillermo A. Fisher’s Groups:

Norfolk Writers Meetup Group, Pretty Tasty, Chocolate City

  •    LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group
  •    Gannett
  •    WSG
  •    Tweeple
  •    Web Standards Design + Development
  •    jQuery
  •    PHP Community
  •    End to End Web Developers
  •    PR Social Club
  •    Chocolate City @ MIT (est. 1975)

Guillermo A. Fisher’s Honors:

Work mentioned on prominent design portals: Kaliber10k, Surfstation, Newstoday, Pixelsurgeon, CSS Import, CSS Vault, Linkedup. Spotlighted at Orgasmikdesign.com.

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