Stephen Holsinger

Current

• Independant Contractor at Affordable Engineering Services LLC
• Lead Developer / Co-Owner at Steel Lotus Solutions

Past

• Web Systems Architect / Systems Administrator at ELK Lighting, Inc. & Landmark Lighting, Inc.
• Web Developer at Solid Cactus Inc.
• Intern at Hanover Direct Inc.

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Education

• Lehigh Valley College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Stephen Holsinger’s Summary

Stephen Holsinger’s Specialties:

PHP programming, table-less CSS design, .NET Development (VB, C#, ASP), W3C Standards, Section 508 accessibility compliance, Linux and Windows system administration, and PC assembly and design. Task automation via shell / PHP scripts. Small to medium network infrastructure planning, installation, and configuration.

Stephen Holsinger’s Experience

• Independant Contractor

  Affordable Engineering Services LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

  Assigned to a contract with the US Army in the Computer and Information Systems Application Development Department. Participate in the entire software development life cycle. Plans, documents, deploy, and support software and information systems. Primarily specialty .Net web application systems.

• Lead Developer / Co-Owner

  Steel Lotus Solutions

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Steel Lotus Solutions is a partnership company with my wife, Candice. Responsibilities include completing projects as per specifications from our customers. Developing functional specifications and contracts for projects. Use existing knowledge of web development standards and techniques to provide answers to clients regarding their projects. Continue learning languages and techniques being used in web development. Manage product offerings such as: web design, development, and hosting, data transformation and cleansing, e-commerce business development consultation, and intra/extra-net application development. Acted as lead developer for customer projects.

• Web Systems Architect / Systems Administrator

  ELK Lighting, Inc. & Landmark Lighting, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)

  December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible for management of existing web sites and the development of future websites. Oversee and plan for growth and development of internal IT infrastructure. Monitor infrastructure for security threats and defend against them. Maintain digital assets and ensure proper back-up procedures are in place for catastrophic rebound capability. Manage multiple locations and ensure secure communication between them. Write and maintain custom applications to automate daily tasks for various personnel within the company. Integrate a MySQL db on Linux with a MS SQL 2000 db. Migrated Landmark Lighting's accounting system from RTS Advantage 4.0 to Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0. Developed a 2 year plan for development of company infrastructure and technology. Spec-ed, priced, and purchased a scalable phone system that will fulfill all requirements including mobility. Develop a plan to move to a new facility in 2009 including all computer, network, and server hardware.

• Web Developer

  Solid Cactus Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

  Responsible for developing Yahoo! Merchant Solutions stores in Yahoo!’s proprietary language, RTML. Responsible for completing projects on time as per project manager’s specifications. Assist Project Manager to determine client’s requirements. Assist Sales Team in projecting costs for proposals. Projects often required slicing of Adobe Photoshop documents (.psd) for use in W3C compliant CSS 1.0 with x HTML 1.0 and HTML 4.1 markup. I assisted with a more advanced internal project using PHP and MySQL. Responsible for markup of email marketing campaigns and ensuring proper display in as many clients as possible.

• Intern

  Hanover Direct Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HNVD; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  January 2006 — March 2006 (3 months)

  Application and web development to support EDI department, internal personnel, and vendors. Projects were completed as per specification of the project manager.

Stephen Holsinger’s Education

• Lehigh Valley College

  Associates, Internet Technologies, 2004 — 2006

Additional Information

Stephen Holsinger’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Stephen Holsinger’s Interests:

snowboarding, web development, linux, security, ecommerce, mysql, apache, php, javascript, CSS, family, Port Wine

Stephen Holsinger’s Groups:

•    .NET Developers
•    Php developers
•    WSG
•    Yahoo! Store
•    Web Standards Design + Development

Stephen Holsinger’s Contact Settings

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