Josue Rodriguez

Past

• Lead Developer at mTek
• Chief SMS Platform Architect at Text 4Home
• Chief Designer/Developer and CTO at Buy Now Blinds

• Web Developer / Media Coordinator / Accountant at Boutique Hotels & Resorts International

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Josue Rodriguez’s Summary

- Strong knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, jQuery
- Knowledge of Web 2.0/AJAX and scripting frameworks.
- Experience with Coldfusion, Python, Bash scripting and other back-end languages.
- Experience with Sphinx Full-Text Search.
- Regular usage of Subversion and sometimes Git.
- Object-oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
- Preferred development environment in L.A.M.P. architecture (able to work with IIS + ISAPI-Rewrite).
- Mobile text messaging development/integration using Verisign's m-Qube gateway into web applications. Also developing content managements for SMS apps.
- Design, develop, implement and manage content & property management systems, such as real estate properties, hotel properties & reservations, window treatment products and orders.
- Intermediate experience in Search Engine Optimization/Marketing (SEO/SEM)

- Experience designing user-friendly interfaces using web standards.
- Integrating, troubleshooting and debugging third-party web applications.
- Develop, implement & maintain custom or open-source back-end applications.
- Detail oriented, self-motivated & eager to use technologies that get the right results, and able to work independently or in a team environment.
- Preferred development tools: Eclipse, Notepad++, Geany.
- Enjoy making command-line scripts using Bash or Python for heaving duty data/feed parsing and large data imports.

Josue Rodriguez’s Specialties:

hotel management experience, superior customer service, online marketing & advertising, branding & identity, sales representative

Josue Rodriguez’s Experience

• Lead Developer

  mTek

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2007 — October 2008 (11 months)

  Lead web developer. Maintaining and development of front-ends, back-ends and more.

• Chief SMS Platform Architect

  Text 4Home

  (Real Estate industry)

  April 2007 — February 2008 (11 months)

  A nation-wide mobile real estate service for Realtors, Brokers and more. Design, development, implementation and maintenance of core scalable SMS application which searches property information using PHP and MySQL. Developed the back-end for staff and realtors/brokers to manage and control SMS property information, tracking/monitoring requests customer data; with features to 'mobile-lock' for targeted property info for customer to realtors via priority locks on mobile numbers, regional/city mobile request/tracking and statistical data collection of the mobile user, and feature similar to a roll-a-deck which sends property info to mobile user based on realtor participation and sorting of realtor contact info on property data. SMS platform also ran routines to collect MLS data feeds from multiple sources and auto-parse and formated for SMS delivery. Created "keyword-specific" custom query engine for building/realtor company/property listings per realtor/broker requests and preference on their admin panels. Used the SMS platform at the REALTOR 2007 National Convention in Las Vegas, NV for live/real-time demonstration purposes and SMS raffling of iPod Nano prizes. Platform also delivered images with SMS property info. Optimized and flexible for many and all major network carriers. Platform uses a SMS simulator for testing/debugging purposes and also able to send batch request to multiple mobile users.

• Chief Designer/Developer and CTO

  Buy Now Blinds

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Manage company website's advertising and marketing, products and content, design and development & product sales and customer service, product inventory and operations. Site architect uses PHP on the front-end and back-end. Design and implement website features and core business process: custom shopping cart, custom internal applications (orders, labels, customer data). Back-end consisted of features to track and send USP/FedEx tracking request to courier and customer notifications. Flexible and customizable, able to add multiple products on-the-fly with color galleries, shipping cart options and pricing grids. Also able to export product inventory and/or data to Craigslist/eBay formatted templates to use on desired sites, marketing/advertising purposes. Was customer service rep for a few months.

• Web Developer / Media Coordinator / Accountant

  Boutique Hotels & Resorts International

  (Hospitality industry)

  March 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 9 months)

  Customizing and administrated the primary site using Coldfusion 6.1 and also landing pages and subsidiary-related sites, newsletters/press releases and web media, customer relations with hoteliers and general guest data. Managed web traffic/reservation tracking using multiple reservation gateways. Managed hotelier/client and business relations on contracts, billing and general purpose accounting tasks using tools like QuickBooks Pro, various spreadsheet analytic data and custom web scripts/tools. Handled media and collateral for meetings, conferences and other packages through web request or regular shipments.

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