Resume

Web Architect

Location
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Industry:
Information Technology and Services

Summary

- Strong knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, MySQL, jQuery
- Knowledge of Web 2.0/AJAX and scripting frameworks.
- Experience with Coldfusion, Python, Bash scripting and other back-end languages.
- Experience with Sphinx Full-Text Search.
- Regular usage of Subversion and sometimes Git.
- Object-oriented and procedural programming methodologies.
- Preferred development environment in L.A.M.P. architecture (able to work with IIS + ISAPI-Rewrite).
- Mobile text messaging development/integration using Verisign’s m-Qube gateway into web applications. Also developing content managements for SMS apps.
- Design, develop, implement and manage content & property management systems, such as real estate properties, hotel properties & reservations, window treatment products and orders.
- Intermediate experience in Search Engine Optimization/Marketing (SEO/SEM)

- Experience designing user-friendly interfaces using web standards.
- Integrating, troubleshooting and debugging third-party web applications.
- Develop, implement & maintain custom or open-source back-end applications.
- Detail oriented, self-motivated & eager to use technologies that get the right results, and able to work independently or in a team environment.
- Preferred development tools: Eclipse, Notepad++, Geany.
- Enjoy making command-line scripts using Bash or Python for heaving duty data/feed parsing and large data imports.

Specialties

hotel management experience, superior customer service, online marketing & advertising, branding & identity, sales representative

Experience

Privately Held; Consumer Services industry

October 2008 – Present ( 11 months)

Front-end/Back-end developer; love doing Bash/Python scripts on the server-side and PHP-jQuery in the front. Always challenged by customer needs and providing a better shopping experience for the consumer. I’m addicted to functionality and breaking-down complex problems into simpler methods.

Information Technology and Services industry

April 2007 – Present (2 years 5 months)

A consulting technology firm, providing web solutions to major industries. Simplifying the web experience, innovate and bring ideas to life. Caprinova tackles many customer service problems, build smart tools and enhance the way businesses work and communicate with their target market while increasing online traffic and business revenue. Services such as Web 2.0 apps, mobile ready sites, database administration, CRM, CMS and mobile text-messaging (SMS) systems.

Josue has 3 recommendations (1 client, 2 partners) including:

Information Technology and Services industry

December 2007 – October 2008 ( 11 months)

Lead web developer. Maintaining and development of front-ends, back-ends and more.

Real Estate industry

April 2007 – February 2008 ( 11 months)

A nation-wide mobile real estate service for Realtors, Brokers and more. Design, development, implementation and maintenance of core scalable SMS application which searches property information using PHP and MySQL. Developed the back-end for staff and realtors/brokers to manage and control SMS property information, tracking/monitoring requests customer data; with features to ‘mobile-lock’ for targeted property info for customer to realtors via priority locks on mobile numbers, regional/city mobile request/tracking and statistical data collection of the mobile user, and feature similar to a roll-a-deck which sends property info to mobile user based on realtor participation and sorting of realtor contact info on property data. SMS platform also ran routines to collect MLS data feeds from multiple sources and auto-parse and formated for SMS delivery. Created “keyword-specific” custom query engine for building/realtor company/property listings per realtor/broker requests and preference on their admin panels. Used the SMS platform at the REALTOR 2007 National Convention in Las Vegas, NV for live/real-time demonstration purposes and SMS raffling of iPod Nano prizes. Platform also delivered images with SMS property info. Optimized and flexible for many and all major network carriers. Platform uses a SMS simulator for testing/debugging purposes and also able to send batch request to multiple mobile users.

Josue has 1 recommendation (1 partner) including:

Consumer Goods industry

October 2006 – November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Manage company website’s advertising and marketing, products and content, design and development & product sales and customer service, product inventory and operations. Site architect uses PHP on the front-end and back-end. Design and implement website features and core business process: custom shopping cart, custom internal applications (orders, labels, customer data). Back-end consisted of features to track and send USP/FedEx tracking request to courier and customer notifications. Flexible and customizable, able to add multiple products on-the-fly with color galleries, shipping cart options and pricing grids. Also able to export product inventory and/or data to Craigslist/eBay formatted templates to use on desired sites, marketing/advertising purposes. Was customer service rep for a few months.

Hospitality industry

March 2004 – November 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Customizing and administrated the primary site using Coldfusion 6.1 and also landing pages and subsidiary-related sites, newsletters/press releases and web media, customer relations with hoteliers and general guest data. Managed web traffic/reservation tracking using multiple reservation gateways. Managed hotelier/client and business relations on contracts, billing and general purpose accounting tasks using tools like QuickBooks Pro, various spreadsheet analytic data and custom web scripts/tools. Handled media and collateral for meetings, conferences and other packages through web request or regular shipments.

Education

Miami Dade Community College

, Internet Services Technology

Attended computer animation; 3D graphics using Maya 4. Basic networking and operation systems.

Recommendations For Josue

“Josue has been a great asset to me whenever I required any type of technical expertise or code development consulting. I’ve also seen his portfolio of web-sites, and really enjoy his artistic skills, and web-design skills. He definitely has an edge on the competition when it comes to digitally enhancing a website. I recommend others hire him because of his abilities and skills when helping others.” September 17, 2008

Dan Berkovitz, Student, Florida International University
was with another company when working with Josue at Caprinova

“Josue is very a driven, motivated, and knowledgeable individual in his field. He is very dedicated to his work and in the process of some very innovative ideas that could change the wave of the web industry.” December 22, 2007

Michael Saka, Owner, IT Consulting Services, Inc.
was with another company when working with Josue at Caprinova

“Josue provided my company with elegant and functional solutions to all of our graphic and web design challenges.” December 20, 2007

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

Sebastian Val
hired Josue as a Graphic/Web Designer in 2003, and hired Josue more than once

“Josue is very dedicated to his craft. Very focused and talented, he doesn’t let people down when it comes to deadlines.” December 19, 2007

Carlos Forero, Marketing, Future_Mob
was with another company when working with Josue at Text 4Home

Additional Information

Websites
Interests
marketing, advertising, programming, design

Groups and Associations
jQuery, RefreshMiami

Honors and Awards
Club President of D.E.C.A. – An Association of Marketing Students; High School 2001-2002.
Club President of A.O.H.T. – Academy of Hospitality & Tourism; (formerly A.O.T.T.) High School 2001-2002.

Personal Information

Phone:
305-938-0908 (Work)

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