San Diego based Drupal developer, passionate about creating world-class Drupal websites.
SKILLS
Drupal site planning & architecture, content modeling, custom module development, REST/API integration, migrations, SSO integration, SEO enhancements, caching & performance tuning, production site management on AWS, Pantheon, and Acquia platforms, PHP development and SDLC, LAMP stack administration, writing & presentations
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
KWALL LLC, Newport Beach, CA
Present Employer
Senior Drupal Developer & Architect May 2019 to present
Caxy Interactive, Chicago, IL
6 years, 6 months
Senior Drupal Developer August 2017 to May 2019
Project planning and site architecture, custom module development, site performance & SEO improvements,
integrations and migrations for Drupal 7 & 8 sites
Drupal Developer June 2015 to July 2017
Custom module development, migrations, site-building, theming, maintenance of Drupal 7 & 8 sites
Web Developer & Scrum Master July 2014 to June 2015
Symfony development and facilitation of Scrum process for multiple teams
System Administrator October 2012 to June 2014
Maintenance & troubleshooting of Drupal 7, Wordpress, Symfony, and custom PHP websites
Imaginary Landscape, Chicago, IL
1 year, 11 months
System Administrator November 2010 to September 2012
Responsible for company's managed and internal web-hosting server infrastructure
Support of Django/Python developer team, intense Apache & Nginx configuration
Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA
3 years, 6 months
Operations Team Manager, Toronto, ON, November 2005 to July 2007
Selected to lead datacenter turn-up, found team, and establish office outside of Toronto
Managed team of Datacenter Technicians, trained & mentored similar teams internationally
Datacenter Technician, Reston VA, February 2004 to October 2005
Coordinated logistics for infrastructure deployment and multiple major upgrades, server repairs
UUNET Technologies, Fairfax, VA
3 years, 9 months June 1997 to February 2001
Several Unix administration roles for one of first and largest commercial internet service providers
Deployed and maintained Solaris servers and desktop machines in datacenter, y2k testing lab, NOC
ADDITIONAL
Acquia Certified Developer - Drupal 8, February 2019
Bachelor's Degree, George Mason University, May 2004 Individualized Studies
Classically trained oil painter, art instructor, and art blogger
LinkedIn Profile
Articles about Drupal I've written:
- SSO with Drupal 8 and Shibboleth
- Implementing Solr with Facets in Drupal 8
- Finding content tagged with taxonomy terms in Drupal 8 with Solr
- Simplified Apache Redirecting
- Tips on Implementing Agile
- Why we love hosting our Drupal sites with Acquia
Additional Drupal activity:
- Drupal.org profile
- Presenter, Drupal Camp L.A. 2017: Understanding and using Shibboleth, SSO, and SAML with Drupal
- Presenter, San Diego DUG: Cool Tricks w/Custom Entities, Form Display Modes, Routes and Controllers
- Presenter, San Diego DUG: Drupal, Shibboleth & Single Sign-On
Drupal sites 100% built by me:
- studydrawing.com
- pleinairmap.com
- benrathbone.net (This website)