TJ Eastmond

Current

• Lead Developer at eFashion Solutions

Past

• Lead PHP Developer at Dow Jones and Company
• Development Manager at eFashionSolutions

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TJ Eastmond’s Summary

Web Application Developer with over ten years experience, and currently the Lead Developer with eFashionSolutions. Prior to returning to EFS, I was working for Dow Jones as the Lead PHP Developer on their South Jersey campus. In addition to my development experience, I have been involved in Project Management for the last four years.

At the moment, I am interested in and studying: iPhone App Development, Ruby on Rails and Scala.

Some of the clients I have provided solutions for include: Wall Street Journal, PlayboyStore.com, MarketWatch, BabyPhat, DKNY and New Era

TJ Eastmond’s Specialties:

PHP 4/5, MySQL, ADODB,JavaScript, Ruby, JSON, XML, REST, AJAX, CSS, XHTML, SVN, SSH, mod_rewrite, APC, Project Management, Employee Management, Process Documentation, Usage Training, Smarty, WordPress, Zend Framework, Prototype, JQuery, MVC, Object Oriented Programming, Standards Compliant Frontend Development

TJ Eastmond’s Experience

• Lead Developer

  eFashion Solutions

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  I returned to eFashionSolutions as the Lead Developer in November of 2007. During my short time away, they had started to realize that some of their platform had become dated and in need of updating.
  
  Since returning, I have put together a great team of Senior and Junior PHP developers. I have designed and developed on the platform rewrite; setting coding standards and practices while also guiding development towards completion of phase one of our project. For this project, I have worked closely with other departments to find their pains in legacy tools and to get their suggestions on how to make their current work flow easier and more manageable. The goal was to make everything painless. Entire portions of the site will be built by drag-and-drop modules on the backend, and editing and merchandising the frontends could never be easier.
  
  Once again, all of our solutions are custom built. We have developed all the back office tools, and the ecommerce engine that powers our sites. The primary technologies used are: PHP 5, MySQL 4/5, ADODB, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, XML, CSS, XHTML, SOAP, REST, MVC, OOP, Zend Framework, Prototype and SVN.
  
  Some of our client websites include: PlayboyStore.com, BabyPhat.com, Rocawear.com, DKNY.com, www1.SeanJohn.com, NewEraCaps.com and Mandee.com

• Lead PHP Developer

  Dow Jones and Company

  (Public Company; DJ; Publishing industry)

  August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)

  Led the PHP group on the South Brunswick campus in migrating all Wall Street Journal and Barron blogs from individual installs of WordPress to a single instance of WordPress MU. For this project, I worked with the System Admins to configure and get live the production Blog and Database servers, and integrated WordPress into the Dow Jones news cloud and in house CMS systems. Additionally, I wrote custom scripts to cleanse and correct legacy user accounts. Due to the sheer number of users, I had also written a UserManagement plugin to ease the process of creating, editing and deleting accounts.
  
  After WSJ and Barron blogs were live, I started on migrating MarketWatch blogs from TypePad. To do this, I wrote several Ruby scripts to clean up and split the TypePad export before importing them into the WordPress MU instance. I also wrote custom mod_rewrite conditions to redirect old TypePad URIs to the format we were using for WPMU.
  
  For all the migrations, I wrote the themes and documentation to pass along to the editors to aid them in not only managing their blogs, but to direct them in creating new blogs unattended by a developer or System Admin.

• Development Manager

  eFashionSolutions

  (Internet industry)

  September 2004 — August 2007 (3 years )

  I Initially started with eFashionSolutions as a Frontend Developer to help expand my resume. A little more than a year later I was the Development Manager overseeing all in-house development.
  
  EFS offers its clients the full turnkey solution. Everything from designing and developing the site to sit on our ecommerce platform, to marketing and fulfilling orders. All of this on a proprietary PHP backend system, built by EFS developers.
  
  While my primary goal was to function as the lead developer, I was also charged with managing the development department. I put in place procedures and standards that eventually found their way to other departments.
  
  Some of our client websites include: PlayboyStore.com, BabyPhat.com, Rocawear.com, DKNY.com, www1.SeanJohn.com, NewEraCaps.com and Mandee.com