Jose Pulgar
Senior Web Developer
- Location
- Greater Chicago Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Jose Pulgar's Overview
- Current
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- Senior Web Developer at Morton's The Steakhouse
- Past
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- Senior Web Developer at Purple Monkey Studios
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Puerto Rico
- Recommendations
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19 people have recommended Jose
- Connections
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142 connections
- Websites
Jose Pulgar's Summary
Senior Web Developer with 9 years of experience focused in using all available technology to find creative solutions for complex problems. Strong believer in custom rapid application development through the use of open-source tools. Proven track record of designing and implementing projects that drastically increased efficiency and ROI.
Specialties
HTML 5, PHP, mySQL, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, API (Google Maps, OpenTable, Yelp), Google Analytics, Google Apps for Domains, WordPress, Photoshop CS5, Adobe Acrobat Professional
Jose Pulgar's Experience
Senior Web Developer
Morton's The Steakhouse
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MRT; Restaurants industry
October 2006 – Present (5 years 5 months) Chicago, IL
• Developed and maintained five corporate websites: mortons.com, trevi-italian.com, mortonscareers.com, thebeststeakanywhere.com and corporate Intranet website.
• Created eMarketing web application for the Marketing Department so that they can easily create audience-segmented emails with variable restaurant content. This allows for heavily personalized and targeted emails which greatly increase read and click rate, while at the same time cutting production times in half.
• Developed mobile friendly websites with GPS functionality. This allowed guests to easily find closest locations and events happening nearby. Improved mobile reservations by 50%. Built campaign tracking functionality so the efficiency of all mobile campaigns may be easily determined.
• Implemented sophisticated marketing campaigns using QR codes. Created personalized QR codes for direct mail. This allows for personalized websites for guests where they could easily activate their individual certificates.
• Developed a solution using OpenTable's (industry leading online reservation system) API to make it easier for guests to make a reservation. This includes smart solutions when time slot isn't available: suggesting additional times and other locations nearby. Also used API to create a visual grid to help restaurants optimize their reservation sheets to maximize capacity. After implementation was finalized, mortons.com reservations increased by 50%, averaging an additional 7,000 guest reservations per month which comes to about $700,000 in additional revenue per month.
• Implemented Search Engine Optimization techniques that improved our rankings on Google and Bing by 25%.
• Provide technical support to 77 restaurants as well as the corporate office.
• Integrated social media sharing elements to emails, special event listing and direct mailing.
• Executed a company-wide upgrade of Lotus Notes for over 500 users.
• Work closely with Marketing Department to meet all campaign deadlines.
Senior Web Developer
Purple Monkey Studios
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
December 2002 – October 2006 (3 years 11 months) Oak Park, IL
• Created applications to aid the production team and cut delivery times to a third of what they used to be. These applications were used with projects for McGraw-Hill, Discovery Channel’s Science Connection and Marriott International.
• Maintained and extended a proprietary newsletter web application. Implemented newsletter solutions for the City of Chattanooga, Lettuce Entertain You, the University of Colorado, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
• Developed and deployed multiple websites using RedDot Content Management System. All sites featured sophisticated workflow rules. Projects included: City of Chattanooga, Brooklyn College, Much Shelist law firm, and Northwestern Business College.
• Wrote complete proposals for over 25 different web development projects. The estimated budget for these proposals ranged from $10,000 to $800,000.
Jose Pulgar's Honors and Awards
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Employee of the Quarter
Morton's The Steakhouse- 2007
Jose Pulgar's Skills & Expertise
Jose Pulgar's Languages
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English
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Spanish
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Jose Pulgar's Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor, Computer Science
2000 – 2001
University of Puerto Rico
Bachelor, Computer Science
1996 – 2000
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