David Grooms
E11011 E River Road
Viola, Wi. 54664
608-629-5167
viadream@gmail.com
Objective I'm seeking a telecommute WebDeveloper position. I have extensive
web programming and database experience while working remotely.
Experience Eight LeggedMedia
Chicago, Il., Remote,08/2015 – Current
Lead Developerforpromotional products company:
 Full stack LAMP with Ruby on Rails/jQuery/Bootstrap.
 Multiple dashboards forAdmin, Suppliers,Distributors and
Sales team roles.
 Ajax UI implemented with MySQL and Cassandra DB’s.
 Dashboard Charts, live email stats, refreshing interfaces.
 Interactive with multiple API’s using Streamsend and
Reachmail. Rails API feed forcustomerconsumption.
 Web interface allowing customers to manage their own email
broadcasting with view stats and geolocation for clicks.
 Admin ability to create and manage customerads for email
broadcasting through third party API services.
 Supplier PDF uploading and conversionto searchable
flipbooks,available to distributors for creating custom covers
and redistribution.
 Purchasing and order tracking system for email packages.
 Drag and drop panels for ad designby customers.
 PDF and XLS stat reports on the fly.
 Auto registration and verification of distributors from emailed
productrequests.
 Git versioning between dev and productionservers.
Star ManagementServices
New York, NY., Remote,08/2012– 07/2015
Web Developerfor large international sites including:
AGT International, 3i-Mind, 4-D Security, Sentillian.
 Worked with remote teams worldwide on HR projects to bring
databases for 15 countries to sync with a Master DB.
 Created 16 HR web reports including Excel downloads using
complexStored Procedures,C#, jQuery, KendoUI, Visual
Studio 2012,SQL Server Management Studio and TFS.
 Created 10 tSQL Stored Procedure Emailers,filtered by
county, as Cron triggered Jobs for daily/monthly HR emails.
 Installed and managed Lamp servers for dev, staging and
productionworkflow on Amazon Cloud with Ossec security,
Secure Certificates, sFTP,SVN. Installing for each company.
 Created complete front-end Drupal sites for several
companies from PSD/PDF provided by designteams. Using
PHP, jQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap,with Responsive Design.
 Created a 30 page SharePoint sub site for AGT International
as their Branding Portal. Also the AGT home page affects.
 Managed updates and changes to all sites on a daily bases
through emails, Lync and morning SCRUM meetings for
Lamp, Drupal, WordPressand SharePoint platforms.
Edigita
Minneapolis, Remote,02/2012-08/2012
Web Developerfor hosted client sites, front and backend utilizing
PHP, jQuery, CSS, MySQL on Rackspace cloud sites.
 Designand programming changes through proprietary CMS
and Word Press,and standard PHP5 sites.
 In house developerforonlineofficesystem.com,migrating to
new platform, implementing new CSS designchanges and
developing Ajax driven dashboards with filters and sorting.
 Created Mobile Office Taskand Referralsystem for mobile
sales force.
 USAePay dashboard module for credit card processing.
 Google maps,geo-locationand analytics.
SuppliersFlyers.com
Wisconsin,Remote,08/2011 – 01/2012
Site for hosting all American products.
 Client interfaces include registration, uploading product art,
flyer creation and product hosting, click stats, shopping cart,
invoices, flyer customize and forward, new lead interfaces.
 Admin interfaces include live dashboards for client order
tracking, purchasing and invoice management.
 Sales calls tracking dash with email templates for sending,
connected SendMail to mySQL for receive to db.
 Auto posting to Twitter and Facebookintegration.
 Digital magazines for flip-booksuppliercatalogs.
 New Lamp install on Ubuntu host. Ruby, Rails, PHP5,
mySql, jQuery, Prototype,phpList, SendMail, SugarCRM,
Mantis, osTicket.
 PayPal API shopping cart interface.
Intergam Online
Chicago, Il., Remote,02/2010– 07/2011
 Subcontractor developing applications for Software Alliance
Corp and Readoz.com using Groovy/Grails MCV,
SpringSource ToolSuite and plugins, Tomcat, Java,
JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, team software including: SVN
versioning, Mantis bug tracker, Google,Zoho,winMerge.
 Created fire inspectioncompliance software having custom
forms creation forinspectors in each fire district.
 Installed Lamp, mySql, phpList on Ubuntu for mass mailing.
 Created Adobe Air widget that interacts with proprietary page
flip system hosted by Readoz.com
SB-Direct.net,Web Developer
Chicago, Il., Remote,05/25/2009– 02/2010
SB-Directis a business-to-business email company that facilitates
contact between suppliers and distributors within the promotional
products industry, sending out
1.5 million Emails per month.
• Rebuilt legacy ASP classic and PHP back-ends into a single
Ruby on Rails web application, managing email ad creation
and client access to stats.
• Managed migration of 38 dot coms and mySQL data to new
servers.
• Integrated jQuery and Prototype.js JavaScript into ruby on
rails for Ajax, uploader, auto-complete,charts and data-grid
pagination.
• Interfaced with Zrinity cold-fusionand StreamSend email
servers api using XML for email statistical reports,parsing
XML responses into charts and grid displays into Ruby on
Rails.
• Rewrote existing PHP email forms using SendMail to
interface with mySQL.
• Repaired jpGraph system for PHP charting.
• Built online image mapping page for hot-linking uploaded
images and storing link co-ordinances as text into the
database.
• Created php sister site supplierspecial.com tied to common
db. Using PHP5, jQuery, mySQL.
• Adapted PHP XML as RSS feeds to supplierspecial.com
promotional ads interfacing with promodesktop.com Adobe
Flash widget.
• Developeda template system using smarty-tag type parsing
for dynamic ad creation, enabling a ‘customize and forward’
feature.
• Developing site: xpressmail.com having credit card system
to interface with off-site 3rd
party email system.
• Developedaccounting and billing systems for purchasing
and order tracking.
• DevelopedSales Call Board integrated with all systems.
Alexander,Morford& Woo, On site, Web Developer
Seattle, Wa., on location, 09/16/2008-12/05/2008
• Created web applications with SQL 2005;using Visual
Studio 2008 with C#, asp.net, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax.
• Multi-threaded searches using data scraping for competitive
quotes then reformatting data to front-end tier, stream-lining
wholesale insurance web application process.
• Utilized .ashx and Ajax to serve dynamic web pages stored
in database. Also, secure login to database and forms for
picture & documentuploading system.
• Added AutoCompletesystem reading from XML file for
suggesteddocumentloading into forms.Also, AutoComplete
using SQL.
• Ajax reader for recent hits XML file that randomly selects
titles and links for display.
• CSS buttons and style sheet formatting on the front end.
D/s Designs, Remote,Web Engineer
London, England, EU, Remote,12/2006–10/2009
• Developmentof virtual 3D gaming systems written in LSL (c
based mono). Created a variety of scripted virtual products.
• Created interfaces betweenLSL code (in world) to interact
remotely using PHP/mySQL/XMLRPC/Curl/Rubyon Linux
servers (out world).
• Daily database administration.
• Provided tech support for productend users.
• Developedhelp-ticket system for other tech support
assistants.
• Hosted and managed the productfeatures and
specifications website.
• Ported PHP system to C#/ASP.NET web server with
msSQL 2008 using new AJAX driven product features.
• Wrote Speechtranslator for 6 languages.
• Created 3-D Web-Phone interface for Skype.
• Created Advanced animation system using parsed voice
recognition commands.
• Created Web/Database integrated monitoring system.
• Ported 100 artificial intelligence programs from ASP and
JavaScript into LSL,PHP5, CURL, and XMLRPC and Ruby.
ViaDreamCorp.,Web Developer
La Crosse,WI,2001–2006
• Consulting and custom web page designand hosting for
commercialclients.
• Developmentof remote projectmanagement software.
• Custom CMS software for hosted websites.
• Provided tech support for end users.
• Speechrecognitionsystems forwebsites for clients using
XP Pro.
• ASP/VBScript/PHP/JavaScripton several remote Linux
servers.
• Developedan open access db of multi-model artificial
intelligence triggers for use in concurrent and diverse online
applications using voice controls.
• Wrote Programs by voice in classic ASP.
• Created AddressBook to Skype by voice.
• Search Google by voice.
Mindx Corp.,President/Developer
Chicago, IL, 1997–2000
• Managed programmers and network administration as
Internet Service Provider using dial-up/ISDN.
• Setup network, Linux & NT servers, IIS,Apache, SQL &
mySQL. Languages used were ASP classic, PHP, and Perl.
• Created core code for client access management system for
internet access,credit card gateway, shopping carts, and
email system.
• Handled tech supportfor new clients setting up dial-up and
email services.
• Provided platform for serving web video broadcasting and
onsite ISDN installation for cameras.
• Succeededin establishing a new and growing company
providing ISP access when internet and video broadcasting
technology was first expanding to the public.
Logan Square PestControl,Business Partner/OfficeManager,
Chicago, IL, 1995–1997
• Creation and management of software and database for in-
house business accounting system. Used R:Base DB
system.
• Provided reports for field technicians for routing, drive-logs,
time-sheets.
• Collected and entered all data, prepared reports formonthly
and year-end delivery to professionalaccountant services.
• Prepared and submitted contract proposals forCity of
Chicago and other commercialcompanies in the Chicago
area, i.e. Hospitals etc.
• Secured contracts for providing pest control services for City
of Chicago, fire departments,bridges and Airports.
MC Chicago,Programmer,
Chicago, IL, 1990–1995
• Developedfront desksystem for handling all aspects of
membership managementfor 300,000 members.
• Employee shiftmanagement and time-sheetreporting
system.
ConsolidatedRecovery,Programmer/Database Admin,
Chicago, IL, 1986–1989
• Created software for all aspects of a debtcollectionagency.
• Data entry forms and report system for debtorinformation
management.
• Phone sheets for collectionagents.
• 5 way receivables accounting system for cash collections.
• Receivables reports forclients.
• Business income and accounting reports for administration.
• Negotiated contract with Tele-CheckCorp. and several
hospitals in the Chicago area.
• DOS, RBase,tSQL.
Education ElectronicComputer ProgrammingInstitute E.C.P.I.,
Professional, Columbus, Oh., 1974–1975
Major: ComputerScience
Private computerinstitute using Univac 9200 and 029
keypunch systems.Studied: Basic AssemblyLanguage
(BAL), RPG, and Cobollanguages.
Wright Jr. College,
Chicago, Il., 1983–1985
Major: Liberal Arts
Studied a wide variety of classes in English, philosophy, math
and logic.
North Western BusinessCollege,
Professional,Chicago, Il., 1984–1985
Major: Accounting
Studied business math and accounting to implementinto
programming software building at the time.
North Eastern University,
Chicago, Il., 1989–1990
Major: Math & Science,Studied Biology,Chemistry and Logic
Stanford University, 2011
Online Certified Course: Machine Learning
Skills Languages: PHP5,Ruby on Rails, classic ASP, C#, C, JavaScript,
jQuery, Ajax, mySQL, msSQL, tSQL(sprocs),.NET MVC, Python,
ActiveX, Assembly,CGI, Curl, HTML, Perl, VRML, XML, Linden
Code (LSL), SpeechApplicationLanguage Tags (SALT),
Multimodal Voice Recognition(grxml), XHTML, DOM, CSS,
Silverlight, gtk2, Flash, ActionScript,Flex3, Java, SVN, Git.
Software:Drupal, WordPress, SharePoint, Photoshop, Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010-15,.TFS,SQL SMS, Dreamweaver, Microsoft
Access,R:Base, MicrosoftFrontPage, MicrosoftVisual Interdev, ,
ExpressionBlend, Eclipse,Aptana, DocumentProduction
Software, Adobe Creative Suite.
Complete sites:
http://www.4-dsecurity.com/
http://www.3i-mind.com/
http://staging.sentillian.com/
http://www.johnmeansgolf.com/
http://www.rfmoeller.com/
http://www.mppoa.com/home.php
http://cubiclesplus.com/
http://www.anklefootmd.com/
Front pages only:
http://www.agtinternational.com/
Extensive backend for this company with C#/.Net and SharePoint .

DavidGroomsResume

  • 1.
    David Grooms E11011 ERiver Road Viola, Wi. 54664 608-629-5167 viadream@gmail.com Objective I'm seeking a telecommute WebDeveloper position. I have extensive web programming and database experience while working remotely. Experience Eight LeggedMedia Chicago, Il., Remote,08/2015 – Current Lead Developerforpromotional products company:  Full stack LAMP with Ruby on Rails/jQuery/Bootstrap.  Multiple dashboards forAdmin, Suppliers,Distributors and Sales team roles.  Ajax UI implemented with MySQL and Cassandra DB’s.  Dashboard Charts, live email stats, refreshing interfaces.  Interactive with multiple API’s using Streamsend and Reachmail. Rails API feed forcustomerconsumption.  Web interface allowing customers to manage their own email broadcasting with view stats and geolocation for clicks.  Admin ability to create and manage customerads for email broadcasting through third party API services.  Supplier PDF uploading and conversionto searchable flipbooks,available to distributors for creating custom covers and redistribution.  Purchasing and order tracking system for email packages.  Drag and drop panels for ad designby customers.  PDF and XLS stat reports on the fly.  Auto registration and verification of distributors from emailed productrequests.  Git versioning between dev and productionservers. Star ManagementServices New York, NY., Remote,08/2012– 07/2015 Web Developerfor large international sites including: AGT International, 3i-Mind, 4-D Security, Sentillian.  Worked with remote teams worldwide on HR projects to bring
  • 2.
    databases for 15countries to sync with a Master DB.  Created 16 HR web reports including Excel downloads using complexStored Procedures,C#, jQuery, KendoUI, Visual Studio 2012,SQL Server Management Studio and TFS.  Created 10 tSQL Stored Procedure Emailers,filtered by county, as Cron triggered Jobs for daily/monthly HR emails.  Installed and managed Lamp servers for dev, staging and productionworkflow on Amazon Cloud with Ossec security, Secure Certificates, sFTP,SVN. Installing for each company.  Created complete front-end Drupal sites for several companies from PSD/PDF provided by designteams. Using PHP, jQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap,with Responsive Design.  Created a 30 page SharePoint sub site for AGT International as their Branding Portal. Also the AGT home page affects.  Managed updates and changes to all sites on a daily bases through emails, Lync and morning SCRUM meetings for Lamp, Drupal, WordPressand SharePoint platforms. Edigita Minneapolis, Remote,02/2012-08/2012 Web Developerfor hosted client sites, front and backend utilizing PHP, jQuery, CSS, MySQL on Rackspace cloud sites.  Designand programming changes through proprietary CMS and Word Press,and standard PHP5 sites.  In house developerforonlineofficesystem.com,migrating to new platform, implementing new CSS designchanges and developing Ajax driven dashboards with filters and sorting.  Created Mobile Office Taskand Referralsystem for mobile sales force.  USAePay dashboard module for credit card processing.  Google maps,geo-locationand analytics. SuppliersFlyers.com Wisconsin,Remote,08/2011 – 01/2012 Site for hosting all American products.  Client interfaces include registration, uploading product art, flyer creation and product hosting, click stats, shopping cart, invoices, flyer customize and forward, new lead interfaces.
  • 3.
     Admin interfacesinclude live dashboards for client order tracking, purchasing and invoice management.  Sales calls tracking dash with email templates for sending, connected SendMail to mySQL for receive to db.  Auto posting to Twitter and Facebookintegration.  Digital magazines for flip-booksuppliercatalogs.  New Lamp install on Ubuntu host. Ruby, Rails, PHP5, mySql, jQuery, Prototype,phpList, SendMail, SugarCRM, Mantis, osTicket.  PayPal API shopping cart interface. Intergam Online Chicago, Il., Remote,02/2010– 07/2011  Subcontractor developing applications for Software Alliance Corp and Readoz.com using Groovy/Grails MCV, SpringSource ToolSuite and plugins, Tomcat, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, team software including: SVN versioning, Mantis bug tracker, Google,Zoho,winMerge.  Created fire inspectioncompliance software having custom forms creation forinspectors in each fire district.  Installed Lamp, mySql, phpList on Ubuntu for mass mailing.  Created Adobe Air widget that interacts with proprietary page flip system hosted by Readoz.com SB-Direct.net,Web Developer Chicago, Il., Remote,05/25/2009– 02/2010 SB-Directis a business-to-business email company that facilitates contact between suppliers and distributors within the promotional products industry, sending out 1.5 million Emails per month. • Rebuilt legacy ASP classic and PHP back-ends into a single Ruby on Rails web application, managing email ad creation and client access to stats. • Managed migration of 38 dot coms and mySQL data to new servers. • Integrated jQuery and Prototype.js JavaScript into ruby on rails for Ajax, uploader, auto-complete,charts and data-grid pagination.
  • 4.
    • Interfaced withZrinity cold-fusionand StreamSend email servers api using XML for email statistical reports,parsing XML responses into charts and grid displays into Ruby on Rails. • Rewrote existing PHP email forms using SendMail to interface with mySQL. • Repaired jpGraph system for PHP charting. • Built online image mapping page for hot-linking uploaded images and storing link co-ordinances as text into the database. • Created php sister site supplierspecial.com tied to common db. Using PHP5, jQuery, mySQL. • Adapted PHP XML as RSS feeds to supplierspecial.com promotional ads interfacing with promodesktop.com Adobe Flash widget. • Developeda template system using smarty-tag type parsing for dynamic ad creation, enabling a ‘customize and forward’ feature. • Developing site: xpressmail.com having credit card system to interface with off-site 3rd party email system. • Developedaccounting and billing systems for purchasing and order tracking. • DevelopedSales Call Board integrated with all systems. Alexander,Morford& Woo, On site, Web Developer Seattle, Wa., on location, 09/16/2008-12/05/2008 • Created web applications with SQL 2005;using Visual Studio 2008 with C#, asp.net, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax. • Multi-threaded searches using data scraping for competitive quotes then reformatting data to front-end tier, stream-lining wholesale insurance web application process. • Utilized .ashx and Ajax to serve dynamic web pages stored in database. Also, secure login to database and forms for picture & documentuploading system. • Added AutoCompletesystem reading from XML file for suggesteddocumentloading into forms.Also, AutoComplete using SQL. • Ajax reader for recent hits XML file that randomly selects
  • 5.
    titles and linksfor display. • CSS buttons and style sheet formatting on the front end. D/s Designs, Remote,Web Engineer London, England, EU, Remote,12/2006–10/2009 • Developmentof virtual 3D gaming systems written in LSL (c based mono). Created a variety of scripted virtual products. • Created interfaces betweenLSL code (in world) to interact remotely using PHP/mySQL/XMLRPC/Curl/Rubyon Linux servers (out world). • Daily database administration. • Provided tech support for productend users. • Developedhelp-ticket system for other tech support assistants. • Hosted and managed the productfeatures and specifications website. • Ported PHP system to C#/ASP.NET web server with msSQL 2008 using new AJAX driven product features. • Wrote Speechtranslator for 6 languages. • Created 3-D Web-Phone interface for Skype. • Created Advanced animation system using parsed voice recognition commands. • Created Web/Database integrated monitoring system. • Ported 100 artificial intelligence programs from ASP and JavaScript into LSL,PHP5, CURL, and XMLRPC and Ruby. ViaDreamCorp.,Web Developer La Crosse,WI,2001–2006 • Consulting and custom web page designand hosting for commercialclients. • Developmentof remote projectmanagement software. • Custom CMS software for hosted websites. • Provided tech support for end users. • Speechrecognitionsystems forwebsites for clients using XP Pro. • ASP/VBScript/PHP/JavaScripton several remote Linux servers. • Developedan open access db of multi-model artificial intelligence triggers for use in concurrent and diverse online
  • 6.
    applications using voicecontrols. • Wrote Programs by voice in classic ASP. • Created AddressBook to Skype by voice. • Search Google by voice. Mindx Corp.,President/Developer Chicago, IL, 1997–2000 • Managed programmers and network administration as Internet Service Provider using dial-up/ISDN. • Setup network, Linux & NT servers, IIS,Apache, SQL & mySQL. Languages used were ASP classic, PHP, and Perl. • Created core code for client access management system for internet access,credit card gateway, shopping carts, and email system. • Handled tech supportfor new clients setting up dial-up and email services. • Provided platform for serving web video broadcasting and onsite ISDN installation for cameras. • Succeededin establishing a new and growing company providing ISP access when internet and video broadcasting technology was first expanding to the public. Logan Square PestControl,Business Partner/OfficeManager, Chicago, IL, 1995–1997 • Creation and management of software and database for in- house business accounting system. Used R:Base DB system. • Provided reports for field technicians for routing, drive-logs, time-sheets. • Collected and entered all data, prepared reports formonthly and year-end delivery to professionalaccountant services. • Prepared and submitted contract proposals forCity of Chicago and other commercialcompanies in the Chicago area, i.e. Hospitals etc. • Secured contracts for providing pest control services for City of Chicago, fire departments,bridges and Airports. MC Chicago,Programmer, Chicago, IL, 1990–1995
  • 7.
    • Developedfront desksystemfor handling all aspects of membership managementfor 300,000 members. • Employee shiftmanagement and time-sheetreporting system. ConsolidatedRecovery,Programmer/Database Admin, Chicago, IL, 1986–1989 • Created software for all aspects of a debtcollectionagency. • Data entry forms and report system for debtorinformation management. • Phone sheets for collectionagents. • 5 way receivables accounting system for cash collections. • Receivables reports forclients. • Business income and accounting reports for administration. • Negotiated contract with Tele-CheckCorp. and several hospitals in the Chicago area. • DOS, RBase,tSQL. Education ElectronicComputer ProgrammingInstitute E.C.P.I., Professional, Columbus, Oh., 1974–1975 Major: ComputerScience Private computerinstitute using Univac 9200 and 029 keypunch systems.Studied: Basic AssemblyLanguage (BAL), RPG, and Cobollanguages. Wright Jr. College, Chicago, Il., 1983–1985 Major: Liberal Arts Studied a wide variety of classes in English, philosophy, math and logic. North Western BusinessCollege, Professional,Chicago, Il., 1984–1985 Major: Accounting Studied business math and accounting to implementinto programming software building at the time. North Eastern University, Chicago, Il., 1989–1990 Major: Math & Science,Studied Biology,Chemistry and Logic Stanford University, 2011
  • 8.
    Online Certified Course:Machine Learning Skills Languages: PHP5,Ruby on Rails, classic ASP, C#, C, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, mySQL, msSQL, tSQL(sprocs),.NET MVC, Python, ActiveX, Assembly,CGI, Curl, HTML, Perl, VRML, XML, Linden Code (LSL), SpeechApplicationLanguage Tags (SALT), Multimodal Voice Recognition(grxml), XHTML, DOM, CSS, Silverlight, gtk2, Flash, ActionScript,Flex3, Java, SVN, Git. Software:Drupal, WordPress, SharePoint, Photoshop, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010-15,.TFS,SQL SMS, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Access,R:Base, MicrosoftFrontPage, MicrosoftVisual Interdev, , ExpressionBlend, Eclipse,Aptana, DocumentProduction Software, Adobe Creative Suite. Complete sites: http://www.4-dsecurity.com/ http://www.3i-mind.com/ http://staging.sentillian.com/ http://www.johnmeansgolf.com/ http://www.rfmoeller.com/ http://www.mppoa.com/home.php http://cubiclesplus.com/ http://www.anklefootmd.com/ Front pages only: http://www.agtinternational.com/ Extensive backend for this company with C#/.Net and SharePoint .