
Creative Director at Passion Mansion, Inc.
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Creative Director at Passion Mansion, Inc.
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
My main specialty is API integration, whether its Amazon S3, Etilize, VideoEGG, or any other 3rd Party API utilizing SOAP or REST.
(Retail industry)
May 2008 — Present (7 months)
Developed, designed and deployed a custom shopping cart system using Paypal IPN, Zend Core, REST API's, and CakePHP. Core of the system parses data feeds from 50+ distributers and maps them to our current database layout to see what products need updated, what products need removed and what products should be added.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1996 — June 2008 (12 years 2 months)
Developed various MVC based Systems for Corporate and Adult applications and web services. Deployed and administrated various lamp servers and networks using Zimba, Zeus, CPanel, Plesk as well as custom defined LAMP environments for both load balanced and single tier networks. Developed multiple social networking sites that have similar functionality to hotornot.com, myspace.com, and friendster.com.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)
Primary duties included maintaining, developing add-ons and updating thenerds.net. Developed a parametric search utility that utilized the Etilize SpexLive REST API for product information using PHP 5 and PostegreSQL. Developed various back end utilities to include features for fliff.com utilizing ASP/VBScript & SQL as well as intranet applications utilizing Zend & CakePHP Frameworks, MySQL, ASP and SQL Server. Utilized CakePHP to develop a wire frame application with drag-and-drop capabilities to allow the client to wire frame their own project without the need to know any design or development skills.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Primary responsibilities included learning Ruby on Rails, server maintenance, application stability and modification of a Ruby on Rails web application using MySQL. Developed and implemented numerous server monitoring and maintenance utilities to enhance and maintain server stability. Modified and upgraded various aspects of the application that utilized Video Egg and Amazon S3 API interfaces.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)
July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)
Developed a CMS for management of system resources in a load balanced network to detect and nullify processes that were based on Hyper-Threading glitch in MySQL. Developed a Multi-tier Management Systems to include a Model Archive application with front end and back end administrative interfaces as well as an end-user model directory for both free and member’s areas that allowed for cross-site promotion and also provided 2257 compliance record keeping abilities. Developed numerous sites utilizing the Carma Content Management System for both member and tour areas of various websites
Diploma, General, 1994 — 1998