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- 20+ years of professional web development & design.
Online Portfolio
Drupal.org Projects
- W3CSS Theme: d8w3css
- W3CSS Paragraphs: w3css_paragraphs
- Amun Sub-Theme: amun
- Amunet Sub-Theme: amunet
- Anhur Sub-Theme: anhur
- Acquia Purge Varnish Module: acquia_purge_varnish
- Cloudflare Purge Module: cloudflare_purge
- Reference Blocked Users Module: reference_blocked_users
- Solo Theme: solo
- Solo Utilities Module: solo_utilities
- Paragraphs Bundles Module: paragraphs_bundles
- Solo Copy Blocks Module: solo_copy_blocks
- Paragraphs Bundle Import Module: pb_import
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Accordion Module: vvja
- Views Vanilla JavaScript 3D Carousel Module: vvjc
- Views Vanilla JavaScript 3D FlipBox Module: vvjf
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Hero Module: vvjh
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Lightbox Module: vvjl
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Parallax Module: vvjp
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Reveal Module: vvjr
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Slideshow Module: vvjs
- Views Vanilla JavaScript Tabs Module: vvjt
Professional Experience
Lead Drupal Developer - Publicis Sapient - NIH Websites
03/2021 – Present
- Leading the front-end and back-end of the development team and providing CIT projects with all necessary UI Design, Backend Development, and Maintenance.
- UI Design or Modernizing the UI: redesign the layout for all pages, create blocks while being attentive to detail and achieving a professional look for the site.
- Backend Development: create, patch, and upgrade modules and customize Drupal hooks for CIT content updates.
- Maintenance & Update: update Drupal core for both CIT sites (insider & external) with Drupal 9. Also, update/convert any contributed modules and follow Drupal Best Practice.
Freelancer Specializing in Drupal and WordPress, Flash Web Center, LLC - Austin TX
01/2008 – Present
- Create, update, and maintain Drupal/WordPress websites for clients.
- DRUPAL 7/8/9 / E-COMMERCE: Consult, construction (site architecture), build themes, design sites, create Google AMP, patch modules, troubleshoot and develop modules.
- WORDPRESS/WOOCOMMERCE: Consult, construct, build themes, site performance optimization, creating Google AMP pages, and site tweaks.
Full Stack - Drupal Developer, Signature Consultant - Dallas TX
08/2020 – 03/2021
- Updated Drupal core (8 and 9) and created custom modules. Also worked in front-end development with the latest technology, building decoupled using Vue.js.
- Created custom Drupal modules.
- Updated and maintained Drupal core and contributed modules.
- Responsible for troubleshooting Drupal.
Senior Drupal Developer/Themer/Architect, Hart Energy - Houston TX
08/2013 – 10/2019
- Led the conversion of five .php subscription websites to Drupal 7, then combined the five Drupal 7 websites into one Drupal 8 website.
- Drupal 7/8 architect, configuration, theming, and module development.
- Host on Acquia & Pantheon, supervise code delivery, design delivery, and push to live.
- Build Drupal sites in a large enterprise, project-based environment.
- Create custom modules and patch or tweak contributed modules as needed.
- Perform Drupal 7&8 theming tasks, including styling pages (zones, regions, twig templates, page.tpl, and html.tpl) and page elements (nodes, fields, arrays, accordions, rotators/sliders, etc.).
- Use Drush and Git (command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal).
- Work with MySQL and access/manage it through command line or shell.
- Troubleshoot the Drupal live sites with a new relic for performance, including module configuration, theming, and varnish cache.
Drupal 6/7 Architect Themer Developer, Patient Conversation Media - Austin TX
09/2011 – 10/2012
- Led the development of four sites intended for an online audience interested in healthy living services. This work included back-end and front-end development in Drupal.
- Complete site configuration, Drupal architecture, theming, and module development.
- Build Drupal sites in a large enterprise, project-based environment.
- Perform theming tasks, including styling pages (zones, regions, page.tpl, and html.tpl) and page elements (nodes, fields, arrays, accordions, rotators/sliders, etc.).
- Use Drush and Git (command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal).
- Work with MySQL and access/manage it through command line or shell.
- Solve any problems with the Drupal live sites, including module configurations, theming, and caching.
Senior Web Developer Designer, Image Microsystems - Austin TX
02/2010 – 10/2010
- Built the front-end for a .net application. This internal application was responsible for company inventory.
- Create, design, and provide marketing ideas.
- Design HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, and jQuery, using C# and VB.Net in Visual Studio 2008.
- Update and maintain the main website for Image Microsystems.
Flash Developer, Ignite! Learning Inc - Online Flash Learning Application (Elementary school) - Austin TX
01/2010 – 02/2010
- Built new features on educational software using ActionScript 2.0 to layout the graphic design of the application.
Web Design & Developer, Aplus Web Image - Overland Park KS
09/2007 – 03/2009
- Updated client websites on a daily request basis. Designed and built websites using Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Photoshop.
- Design templates (10 – 15 per day) using HTML, CSS, and Flash.
- Design templates for e-commerce stores (OS commerce, Zen Cart, and Pinnacle Cart).
- Maintain and update our existing websites (20 – 25 per day) and e-commerce stores (company’s active client base is 3,000+).
- Maintain responsive and perceptive communication with customers, providing them with superior customer service and quality customization.
- Reconstruct sites to enhance user mobility and ease of future updating.
Skills
- Software: Microsoft Outlook, Front Page, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visual Studio, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Network Security, FileZilla, Smart FTP, Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 9, 10), Mac, Ubuntu (11, 12, 16), Web Server Administration, PHP Framework, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla.
- Programming: HTML, HTML5, DHTML, XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), jQuery Library JavaScript, Vue.js, React.js, Twig, PHP & MySQL, VB.NET, C#, Ajax, and ActionScript 2.0/3.0.
- Computer: Extensive knowledge of hardware and software installation, configuration and maintenance, proficiency in the repair and assembly of personal computers, and excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Management: Manages time and resources with consistent results. Has good organizational and analytical skills as well as the ability to lead projects and get results.
- Communication: Ability to successfully interact with individuals of all levels of knowledge from varying backgrounds and fields of study.
- Personal Attributes: Highly organized individual as well as a flexible team player who will work hard and excel in any environment. Dependable and conscientious of duties and responsibilities.
Education & Certificates
- Visual Basic 2005: Comprehensive introduction to Visual Basic 2005 programming language and how to create programs in Visual Basic 2005 using a clean conceptual approach, JCCC, 06/2007.
- ASP.NET Advanced: Configure ASP.NET applications, troubleshooting and deploying ASP.NET applications, extending ASP.NET applications and creating XML Web Services, JCCC, 04/2007.
- ASP.NET Fundamental: Introduction to ASP.NET/Visual Studio: build on Microsoft’s .NET framework with new functionality to ASP making Web application development easier and friendly.
- XML: Write valid, well-formed XML documents based on W3C specifications and work with DTDs, Schemas and Document Object Modules. Create style sheets that convert XML documents to text, other XML or HTML using XPath and XSLT features. Also create style sheet templates and match them with sections of your source document using elements and functions, JCCC, 04/2006.
- JavaScript: Learn and use scripting basics, using variables and functions, validating user-entered data, working with Windows and frames, adding advanced elements to the web page including animation, cascading style sheets and cookies, JCCC, 04/2006.
- Flash Developing Applications: Create rich Internet applications to dynamically integrate with external data and respond to user actions. Create ActionScript programming to perform calculations and tailor the interface, as well as publishing files in swf format, JCCC, 04/2006.
- Flash Design & Develop Media: Create web-page components that contain text, graphics and animation that will display correctly in almost every browser on most computing platforms. Create flash-based movies that contain graphics, text, and animations, JCCC, 04/2006.
- Flash Fundamental: Use Flash MX 2004 to create flash movies for delivery on the web. Work with images, shapes, colors, tools, layers, animation, and buttons, JCCC, 03/2006.
- Dreamweaver Design & Develop Websites: Create individual pages to fit in an entire side structure. Use the efficient interface for developing static side with text, images, media, navigation elements, and forms, JCCC, 03/2006.
- CSS: Use CSS to control colors, typography, and layout schemes, rather than the HTML style-oriented tags and attributes, JCCC, 03/2006.
- HTML & Web Page Design: Write source code, place and format text as well as create headings and horizontal rule lines. Display lists, color Web pages, use graphics, add hypertext links, and create graphic hyperlinks, JCCC, 03/2006.
- BA, Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt, 06/1996.
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