Address:
1630 State Street
Osceola Mills, PA. 16666
Preface
Hello, my name's Luke. I'm a self-taught, grizzled veteran of web 2.0 with a passion for accessibility, security, software architecture, dev-ops, and continuous self-improvement. I currently work for the Pennsylvania State University as an Applications Developer on the marketing team that develops and maintains https://www.worldcampus.psu.eduthis link leads to an external website and several other smaller and less complicated web properties. I have deep roots in open source and am an active contributor to the Drupalthis link leads to an external website content management system.
During my near to 10 years of service for Penn State, I have progressed through roles starting from a mid-level team member to one of the highest technical authorities in the Penn State Outreach and Online Education organization — one of the most successful revenue generators at Penn State. My current station is one that directs the trajectory of the full application stack. I pride myself on being one of the most highly adaptable technologists that you'll ever meet.
Experience
- Balancing the technical needs of marketing strategy, security, accessibility compliance, and user experience
- Interfacing with third party software vendors to present grievances, assist in troubleshooting, and collaborate on mutually beneficial resolutions
- Collaborating with open source software projects to achieve strategic goals in ways that strengthen the collective good
- Commanding use of version control systems, package management workflows, and build processes
- Proven mastery of automated unit, behavioral, and performance testing
- Senior level front-end web development with a focus on secure, performant, accessible, and scalable end-user experiences
- Back-end solution architecture that best aligns immediate needs with long-term goals
- Refining development processes to foster professional growth and encourage open collaboration
Current technologies
- Languages and such: MySQL, PHP, Semantic HTML, CSS, SCSS, JS, Gherkin, bash
- CMS: Drupal, Symfony, Wordpress, other MVC micro-frameworks
- IDE / Build Tools: PHPStorm, WebStorm, xdebug, composer, npm, gulp, scss, babel
- Testing / Automation: PHPUnit, Behat, Selenium, Lighthouse, Browserstack, Ghost Inspector
- DevOps: GitHub actions, Gitlab CI, Cloudflare
- Assistive Tech: NVDA, Orca, Voiceover, Talkback, JAWS
- Virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes
- Managed Hosting: Acquia, Pantheon, AWS
- VCS: Git
No longer recent
- VB (2003-2004)
- C (2003-2009)
- Delphi (2005-2007)
- Java (2005-2015)
- C++ (2005-2017)
- .NET (2006-2015)
- Magento 1.x, Joomla, Codeigniter, Laravel (2015-2017)
- Mercurial (2017-2018)
- SVN (2010-2012)
Soft skills
- Empathetic advocate for end-users with disabilities
- Dedicated to doing things the right way even when it's not the easy way
- Able to fluently communicate with marketing, designers, project managers, and software engineers
- Able to spark collaborative conversation around project requirements
- Able to identify when to solve a problem directly and when to leverage a pre-built solution
- Able to become an active participant in open source projects when issues need resolution
Work History
2017 - Present: The Pennsylvania State University — Applications Developer
Senior position in a team of 4 developers responsible for the development, maintenance, and security of the Penn State World Campus web presence.
- Engage with analysts, designers, project managers, hosting partners, compliance officers, and marketing stakeholders in World Campus and across the University
- Lead large scale web development efforts
- Act as primary liaison between World Campus marketing and the various open source projects that sustain the business
- Integrate data and software with third party platforms and services
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues involving software, hosting, integrations, etc...
- Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure in the AWS platform
- Lead automated testing initiative and mentor team members in best practices
2015 - 2017: Kingdom Inc. — Web Developer / System Administrator / IT
Primarily responsible for the hosting, development, and security of several Magento based e-commerce storefronts in addition to Joomla managed hosting offerings.
- Develop and maintain custom Magento 1.x extensions and themes
- Provide security support and custom Joomla modules for 1200+ customer web properties
- Set up and administer bare metal Linux based infrastructure
- Administer cloud hosted Linux infrastructure
- Perform highly technical repair and calibration of large scale digital printing equipment
2009 - 2015: Tyoga Transmissions — Automotive Technician
- Major component interchange for passenger vehicles
- Electohydraulic system diagnostics and repair
- Vehicle recovery operator
Education
2008 - 2010 Corning Community College, Associates of Occupational Science in Automotive Technology