Vice President of Technology / Senior Developer

MTI Transportation: is a medium sized trucking conglomerate headquartered in Winfield, IL. MTI owns a handful of trucking related companies including Total Trucking Solutions software suite (TTS}. I was brought in to develop new features of their TTS application and to oversee and redesign all the websites and creation of a new site: VRH ELD.com

The company was using third-party hardware and software systems that were not optimized for their specialty, over-the-road trucking. I assembled a small team of crack coders from Hanoi. We then tapped into the SDK from the hardware manufacturer and wrote a brand-new, mobile application geared to their specific needs featuring nationwide vehicle tracking, routing, route optimization, predictive late delivery intelligence, Dlib AI driver fatigue detection, GEO Fencing, Compliance, truck/cargo monitoring, enterprise stats and analytics. Then we topped it off with a web-based control panel, and a total truck management system. The app suite is so powerful they intent to market it to the entire over-the-road trucking industry.

Technologies: AWS, React Native, PostgreSQL, Swagger API, PHP (control panel), Android Studio, VSCode, Telematics, Canbus, OBDii, Google Maps/Direction Services, Wialon, ELD compliance/FMCSA, Tailwind CSS, Tabulator, Dropzone

One of the coolest things I did here:

• I came up with a order entry tool that eliminated double entry into multiple systems based on Google Extensions.
  
  I don't think this has ever been done before but knew the business needed a solution badly. You see they had 3 major applications that weren't able to be connected via API and each order had to be entered separately ~50 fields (Name address, phone...and the whole order), not to mentions a working master which was in Google sheets. Here's where the magic comes in. The one thing that most applications have in common today is the browser. So, I wrote a Google extension that pulled the order records out of SQL (ERP) and then a click of a button in the menu bar reposted all fields into the other 3 application. Now they only have to enter the order into their ERP and then push the button and all ~50 fields populate into any application open in the browser. EPIC!

Director of eCommerce / Senior Developer

PromarkBRANDS is the parent company of several high-end, international brands in the commercial photographic lighting and accessories industry. A Solo project, I was brought in to redevelop, and redesign all websites including the corporate website and subsidiary brands (all of which were 5-15 years old), and implement full e-commerce online stores for roughly 10,000 products to be fully integrated with existing ERP systems (Infor Visual) including Sales, Inventory, Order Entry, Customer Service and Accounting, and develop e-marketing and online sales strategies. WordPress / Woo Commerce, PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, Windows IIS. Sites include

Senior Developer (Contractor)

Weber-Stephen is a billion-dollar multi-national manufacturer of back-yard barbecue grills. They needed a consultant to come in and handle dozens of projects in many different languages including .NET MVC (Razor), .web forms, Mobile apps, custom CMS apps, Google Datalayer Library, PHP (Laravel Craft), Classic asp, Data mining, Zendesk API, Rackspace CDN file management system API, and more. Weber.com

Senior Java Developer (Contractor)

Geico life insurance needed clean and tight landing pages for their high-profile partner. JAVA/JSP (J2EE), Sun Glassfish, WordPress, Oracle, jQuery / JavaScript (solo). Geico.com

Independent Contractor (VanPetten Consulting)

Sandoz/Novartis (Agency): Major pharmaceuticals, billion-dollar multinational website maintenance and updates (solo) Kerr Dental: One of the largest dental equipment manufacturers in the world. Whole new website (small team) Drupal/PHP: Omnitrope.com glatopa.com myomnisource.com

Brasseler Dental (Agency): Another major multi-national dental equipment manufacturer. Whole new website (lead developer) WordPress/PHP: Brasselerusadental.com

Kerr Dental (Agency): One of the largest dental equipment manufacturers in the world. Whole new website (small team) Drupal/PHP: Kerrdental.com

Brentano Fabrics: Large multi-national fabric manufacturer. Bi-annual site re-designs since 2012 (solo) VB.NET/WordPress (solo) Brentanofabrics.com

Max Challenge (Agency): Health club chain. New website, applications, Facebook API, Salesforce API, WordPress/PHP (solo) TheMaxChallenge.com

MasterFinish: one of the largest electro-plating companies in the world serving the automotive industry: Operations applications. .NET C#, entity sql… (solo)

Education

BA - Music Composition / Commercial Music

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