Resume for Chris McQueen
Dedicated LAMP-focused Full Stack Web Developer and DevOps Engineer with 20+ years of experience. Additional deep expertise in Data Analysis and IT Administration/Support. Seeking challenging full-time or contract opportunities.
Work History
Full-Stack PHP Developer & Solimar SES Administrator at Amsive
February 2022 - Present
- Legacy LAMP-focused SLDC
- PHP 5/7 application conversions to PHP 8+
- Microsoft Azure migrations from old Azure tenants and 3rd party cloud and bare metal hosting vendors
- Migration to Azure MySQL Flexible Servers
- Development of new web portals and applications
- Solimar SOLSearcher Enterprise (SSE) Administrator
- Support for Solimar and Amsive "conduit" APIs
Full-Stack Developer, Data Analyst Self-Employed Contractor
2005 - February 2022
- Legacy (non-framework) LAMP project implementation, optimization, maintenance, and support.
- Collaborate and guide projects through the SDLC.
- Legacy website conversions to modern responsive layouts using Bootstrap.
- Hosting migrations to AWS EC2 / S3 / SES.
- REST API integrations.
- Custom form, digital signature, and document rendering expertise.
- Detailed custom statement and reporting interfaces.
Co-Founder, Lead Developer at Transform Dealership Solutions
2005 - 2013
- Custom CRM platform for automobile dealerships. Increased gross, decreased expense, and dramatically reduced paperwork processing time.
- Ground-up web-based SaaS product build.
- REST and SOAP-based API integrations with CUDL, RouteOne, TUNA (TransUnion), CBC (Credit Bureau Connection), and others.
IT Administrator, Lead Web Developer, Data Analyst at SourceLink (Now Amsive)
1997 - 2000, 2003 - 2005, 2005 - 2022
- 2005 - 2022: contractor for same (see Full-Stack Web Developer above).
- Developed DM portals for regional banks and finance companies that generated $15M+ in revenue over 15 years.
- Provided comprehensive Network and IT Administration including SAS70 security compliance management.
- Managed onsite fiber-connected data center and directly supported over 100+ workstations/devices.
- MS Server 2000/2003/2007, AD, RHEL-based Linux servers, various NAS, VPN WIFI, and other devices.
- Promoted from Entry-Level to Lead Programmer within 2 years.
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Summary of Qualifications
- SDLC / DevOps Project Management
- LAMP-based SaaS Web Application Development
- MySQL Database Management
- Responsive Design
- Legacy codebase support and migration
- Data Analysis and Reporting
- Document Archival and E-Presentment
- Solimar SOLSearcher Enterprise (SSE) Admin
- General IT/Network/Security Admin/Support
Core Competencies
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- MS Certified Azure Fundamentals
- RHEL and Debian-based Linux
- Apache
- MySQL / MSSQL
- PHP 5/7/8: Composer, PDO, PEAR
- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap
- CRUD, API, REST, SOAP
- WHM, cPanel, Plesk
- WSL, SSH, sFTP, SCP, PGP/GPG
- Git, TFS, SVN
- BASH, Perl, PowerShell
- Slack, Asana, Microsoft Teams