Experiences
Updated on March 10, 2010| Job Title | Programmer/Analyst |
| Company | Sun Media (formerly Canoe) |
| URL | www.canoe.ca |
| Department | - |
| Period | March 2009 - Present |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario |
| Status of Employment | Permanent / full time |
Tasks
- Transfered from Sudbury office to Toronto office in March 2009
- Maintain autonet.ca front end website using Zend framework and back end using Symfony framework
- Maintain and create PHP cron script to retrieve different XML feeds and save them into MySQL database
- Create object oriented PHP to read XML feed and transform it with XSLT
| Job Title | Freelance Web Programmer |
| Company | Step Hill Solutions Inc. |
| URL | www.omegacrunch.com |
| Department | - |
| Period | January 2009 - May 2009 |
| Length of Employment | 5 months |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario |
| Status of Employment | Freelance |
Tasks
- Updated Joomla navigation menu & style sheets according to the new design template
- Created custom shopping cart with PHP & MySQL
- Used Paypal API to connect Paypal payment portal
| Job Title | Web Programmer |
| Company | Sun Media (formerly Canoe) |
| URL | www.canoe.ca |
| Department | Sun Media Interactive Services |
| Period | May 2008 - March 2009 |
| Length of Employment | 8 months |
| Location | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Status of Employment | Permanent / full time |
Tasks
- Utilized object oriented PHP, MySQL, Curl, and Canoe API to create an email alert systems to send out breaking news in real time
- Responsible to create news feeds in the form of RSS, Atom and XML
- Utilize PHP & MySQL to create XML report for error and login logs that is used to create email alert weekly report
- Responsible to maintain dynamic sitemap xml using ASP and .NET
- Utilize jQuery, Ajax, ASP to create dynamic photo gallery and news content
- Modify newspaper and magazines CMS using ASP, VB, ASP.NET and PHP
| Job Title | Freelance Web Programmer |
| Company | Rusty Cellars |
| URL | www.rustycellars.ca |
| Department | - |
| Period | April - May 2008 |
| Length of Employment | 45 days |
| Location | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Status of Employment | Freelance |
Tasks
- Created custom website and CMS, allowing them to enter wine collections according to their management systems and send out mass newsletter to subscribed users
- Added functionality for loyal customers to give them testimonials and allow the store owner to review, post and delete testimonials
- Setup weekly Google Analytics report to be sent out to the store owner
- Utilized Adobe Photoshop, PHP, CSS and MySQL to do design and programming, respectively
- Three months after the website was completed, the store succesffuly gained more visitors coming into the store
| Job Title | Web Programmer |
| Company | All Your Retail |
| URL | www.ayr1.com |
| Department | - |
| Period | November 2007 - May 2008 |
| Length of Employment | 6 months |
| Location | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Status of Employment | Permanent / full time |
Tasks
- Sliced up photoshop template and created tableless XHTML pages
- Modified retailers CMS using PHP & MySQL
- Modified existing keywords algorithm to enhance search engine ranks with the help of google keyword tool
- Assisted team leader to download information from XML with PHP
- Wrote custom forms and picture gallery PHP, MySQL and Ajax