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$50 USD / Hour
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United States (10:41 PM)
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Joined on September 3, 2008
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1 Recommendation
$50 USD / Hour
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Senior Software Engineer with 18 years experience delivering quality solutions. My commitment my client (and to myself) on every project I will: - ensure I understand requirements - estimate accurately - communicate well and regularly - produce quality code - do so quickly and efficiently - finish on time I am an expert level software engineer with the experience necessary to refine requirements, design complex applications, code robust solutions which meet specification, and deliver a final product that is tested and functions as expected. I am highly skilled, pleasant, helpful, quick and detail oriented ... one project with me and you will have found your "new favorite programmer". I specialize in: PHP PHP MVC Frameworks: Codeigniter, Kohana, Laravel, Zend, Symfony, Yii Ruby on Rails Python/Django HTML5/CSS3 Javascript, Ajax, jQuery, node.js MySQL API Integrations: Facebook Twitter Google Maps Trulio Full life cycle deployment of complex Web Applications utilizing industry standard MVC Frameworks. Proficient with Codeigniter, CakePHP, Kohana, Zend, Symfony, Ruby on Rails ... specializing in Yii ... trending towards Phalcon. Pixel Perfect PSD slices to HTML5/CSS3 with JavaScript integration (including template creation in the CMS of your choice - Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Interspire, etc). Lightning fast web scraping utilizing a self customized CodeIgniter/SimpleHTMLDom setup. Or, on the platform of your choice: PHP/Curl, Ruby on Rails/Hpricot/Mechanize, or Python.
Verifications
On time
100%
On budget
100%
Accept rate
64%
Repeat hire rate
7%

Single web page created for contest

Quick HTML5 mock-up for contest
JQuery font animations
JavaScript Sieve of Eratoshenes implementation for CodeEnvy
CodeEnvy Challenge - Fizzbuzz (JavaScript version)
Javascript

Single web page created for contest

Quick HTML5 mock-up for contest
JQuery font animations
JavaScript Sieve of Eratoshenes implementation for CodeEnvy
CodeEnvy Challenge - Fizzbuzz (JavaScript version)
Javascript

Went above and beyond! Would definitely hire again
Tyler B.
@tylerbook
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St. Petersburg, United States
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Great job done and quick and excellent service and very professional
Andrew V.
@alltech2013
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watford, United Kingdom
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Rocked... finished early... fixed something else.... and gave suggestions.. will and am hiring again... totally worth it. a project finished according to spec early is worth GOLD
George S.
@embraer145
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Houston, United States
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Kris has been great to work with. Efficient, professional and expert. He came up with the goods where others hadn't a clue. Highly recommended.
John N.
@bpmconsultant
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melbourne, Australia
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lovely! will hire again for future projects!
Diana R.
@dianareed88
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New York, Romania
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Experience
Freelance
Sep, 2006 - Present
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19 years, 2 months
Consultant to various projects
Sep, 2006 - Present
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19 years, 2 months
Freelance web and application development (primarily through Elance.com) including: Joomla/Drupal/Wordpress installation, template design, custom extension development. Data integration utilizing a variety of APIs (Google, Yahoo, Zillow, Trulia, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace). Database development and backend functionality coding for a variety of sites (Primarily MySQL with PHP/Python/Ruby) Current/Most Recent Project: Designing, coding, testing and deploying solutions for data acquisition, processing
Sep, 2006 - Present
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19 years, 2 months
Consultant
Mar, 2003 - Aug, 2006
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3 years, 5 months
Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina
Mar, 2003 - Aug, 2006
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3 years, 5 months
Designed, developed, tested and implemented solutions to programmatically automate mainframe claims/data processing by emulating user interaction. Utilized industry standard methodologies throughout the software lifecycle. Utilized a variety of tools (Visual Basic, VBA for Reflections, primarily C# .NET and HLLAPI) to emulate user transactions from a Windows based PC to mainframe systems (TSO, etc.) resulting in significantly increasing transaction volumes/capabilities and data quality. This involved
Mar, 2003 - Aug, 2006
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3 years, 5 months
Senior Consultant
Jun, 2002 - Mar, 2003
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9 months
TekSystems, Contracted to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
Jun, 2002 - Mar, 2003
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9 months
Used the Ab Initio/Trillium/KSH toolsets to create vectored representation of all customer data from multiple sources in order to feed HIPPA compliant data store. Multiple platforms and databases: Unix, MVS, IMS, DB2, UDB Designed and developed error handling interface within Ab Initio to programmatically handle exceptions and generate XML documentation for reporting back to source any data quality issues encountered. Provided expert guidance and mentorship to on staff developers.
Jun, 2002 - Mar, 2003
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9 months
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013 - 2014
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1 year
OCW Study - Theoretical Mathematics

United States
2013 - 2014
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1 year
Regis University
1993 - 1994
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1 year
BS - Applied Mathematics

United States
1993 - 1994
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1 year
Penn State University
1989 - 1991
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2 years
BS - Physics

United States
1989 - 1991
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2 years
Qualifications
Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction
2014
Coursera.org
Completion of the Data Scientist's Toolbox and R Programming courses with 100% score on all exams and assignments.
2014
Certifications
HTML5
Freelancer Orientation
JQuery
PHP
Twitter API
WordPress
Python
HTML
MySQL
Basic Numeracy
E
Employer Orientation Exam
JavaScript
US English
G
General Orientation Exam
Ruby