Professional Profile

• Experienced software professional with comprehensive technical skill set and broad experience in diverse areas: Web Development, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Computing, Warehousing/Trucking/Logistics, Retail.
• Skilled software designer, with extensive system and network administration experience, having depth of knowledge to help assure projects are on schedule, and on budget.

Areas of Expertise

Professional Experience

• Joy Markel Graphic Communication & Design 06/05 - present – Director of Web Technology (consulting)
  • Design, develop, maintain, administer, and host custom-designed, SEO–optimized, primarily using the “LAMP” stack and the Drupal content management system. Work with clients to create site specifications and look & feel, develop site information architecture. Work with designers to create required graphics.
  • Contributed patches to Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 core. Contributed core documentation for Drupal 8, 7, and 6. Created the “Embedded Google Docs Viewer” contributed Drupal module. My drupal.org userid is jmarkel.

• American Roland Food, Dayton NJ 6/05 – 10/09 Senior Software Engineer, (Employee)
  • Reorganized J2EE server development, speeding time-to-market. Improved end-user experience by increasing database performance. Implemented a new reporting framework, speeding delivery to end-users.
  • Re-architected existing applications, moving processing from client- to server-tier. Improved system reliability by utilizing an MQ system to facilitate client-server interactions. Improved user experience and speed-of-implementation by designing and developing Web 2.0 applications to replace workstation-based applications. Modernized / streamlined the software build process, making systems easier to update, maintain, and deploy.

• CNT, Lumberton, NJ 8/03 – 6/05 (Consulting)
  • Improved and added functionality, as well as providing on-going technical support, for CNT‘s Enterprise Manager software for fibre-channel switches and storage directors.

• Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge & Holmdel, NJ 7/01 - 7/03 (Consulting)
  • Productized an IP-network research toolset, allowing Avaya better to assess their customers’ network readiness for, and to facilitate sales of, Avaya’s VOIP systems.

• Netfolio Inc, New York, NY 12/00 - 3/01 (Consulting)
  • Analyzed, documented, and re-coded (where necessary) the Netfolio system, a high-transaction Web-based system providing stock trading, investment information, and investment advice.

• Net Technologies, New York, NY 2/99 - 11/00 (Consulting)
  • Created the SaaS product DoTell Interactive^™ – as architect, principal developer, and implementer. DoTell Interactive^™ took incoming phone calls, live-streamed the calls, and archived them for later web access.

• Citibank, New York, NY 10/97 - 6/99 (Consulting)
  • As a member of the development team for CASA/CitiDirect, developed commercial banking web applications that gave customers much better access to their data and their money.

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 3/97 - 10/97 (Consulting)
  • Architected a prototype retail E-Commerce web site.
  • Developed performance enhancements to the experimental Web Object Manager (WOM) web server.

• About.com, New York, NY 11/96 - 4/97 (Consulting)
  • Created a CRM system to easily manage both clients and their clients’ websites

• Prodigy Services Corporation, White Plains, NY 8/94 - 4/97 (Consulting)
  • Created customer-facing web applications as well as associated back-end processing for full-text searching of wire-service news feeds, encyclopedias, restaurant and travel guides, forum posts, and financial data.

Education

• B.A. English/Computer Science - State University of New York College at New Paltz