MD.com

Serving as technical architect, project manager, DBA and lead developer for MD.com, an MVC-based PHP application built upon the CodeIgniter framework (currently being rewritten in Laravel).  Performing business analysis, project planning, architectural design, writing of technical and functional specifications, interface design, database modeling and programming of website providing information on approximately 600,000 actively practicing physicians throughout the United States.  Interviewed and provided decisions on hiring for team of local and international software developers, set up Git and Subversion repositories and local LAMP-based working environments, wrote documents to establish naming and coding conventions for daily programming tasks.  Established Wiki and ticketing system for development team.  Writing functional and technical specifications for daily tasks, assigning them to developers and designers, serving as DBA for application and guiding testing of application before migrating completed enhancements to production.  In addition to leading project and serving as DBA, heavily involved in programming in PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, JQuery UI, writing custom classes for application and modeling and performance-tuning database queries.  Writing and consuming REST services from various vendors.  Developing cross-platform native mobile application using HTML5, JQuery Mobile, REST services, Google geolocation services, PhoneGap and CSS using Appery.io. Performing front-end tasks such as extraction of assets from PSDs, programming responsive templates and pages using Bootstrap or Foundation JS, SCSS, Node.js and Grunt.  Set up load-balancing on server, replication of cloud database and content delivery network (CDN) using Incapsula to prevent denial of service attacks, SQL injections, etc.