Freelance Web Application Developer
Allentown, Pennsylvania Area
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- Web Application Developer at Freelance
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- Independant Contractor at Affordable Engineering Services LLC
- Web Systems Architect / Systems Administrator at ELK Lighting, Inc. & Landmark Lighting, Inc.
- Web Developer at Solid Cactus Inc.
- Intern at Hanover Direct Inc.
- Education
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- Lehigh Valley College
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Stephen Holsinger’s Summary
Stephen Holsinger’s Specialties:
Data-driven web development, PHP, CodeIgniter MVC framework, CakePHP framework, strong intuition for usability, table-less CSS design, Microsoft .NET Development (VB, C#, ASP), ASP.NET MVC, W3C Standards, Section 508 accessibility compliance, highly skilled at making the big picture real through extracting details.
Stephen Holsinger’s Experience
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Web Application Developer
Freelance
(Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Freelance web development. Work includes both long-term and short-term projects. Participated in projects ranging from multi-storefront E-Commerce systems, wholesaler E-Commerce systems, data-driven websites, social websites, portfolios, and blogs; Internal systems for productivity and efficiency gains; Extranet applications to deflect customer service loads to automated systems; and more. I work well with mixed mixed operating system environments, multiple programming languages and disciplines, remote and local systems or networks, and other complicated environments.
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Independant Contractor
Affordable Engineering Services LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)
Assigned to a contract with a US Army installation in the Computer and Information Systems Application Development Department. Participated in the entire software development life cycle. Planned, documented, deployed, and supported software and information systems. Work consisted primarily of developing and supporting specialty .Net web application systems.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Lehigh Valley College
Associates , Internet Technologies , 2004 — 2006
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Stephen Holsinger’s Interests:
snowboarding, web development, linux, security, ecommerce, mysql, apache, php, javascript, CSS, family, Port Wine
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