John W. Lude
2731 NW 22 Street
Cape Coral, FL 33993
(239) 471-4135

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BrainBench Certified PHP 4 Master - Top 2% of test-takers, May 2008
BrainBench Certified PHP 5 Master - Top 8% of test-takers, May 2008

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 2008 – Present
Ranasanghe, Inc.
Webmaster

• Exlusively telecommute. 
• Sole developer. 
• With artist developed variety of custom websites.
• Managed all aspects of LAMP server through CPanel / WHM and SSH.
• Sites include:
  • Custom Jewelry Prototype - Development time: 60 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • AJAX interface tested and fully compliant over all major web browsers
    • Custom Content and Sales Management
    • On-the-fly graphics creation using GD2
  • Project Time Tracking - Development time: 14 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • AJAX interface tested and fully compliant over all major web browsers
    • Custom Content and Sales Management
    • On-the-fly graphics creation using GD2
  • Real Estate Website - Development time: 22 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • AJAX interface tested and fully compliant over all major web browsers
    • Custom Content and Sales Management
    • Google Maps
    • REST data feed with Cron
  • IDX (Generic Real Estate MLS/Website interface) - Development time: 40 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • AJAX interface tested and fully compliant over all major web browsers
    • Custom Content and Sales Management
    • Google Maps
    • REST data feed with Cron
    • Authorize.net Payment system
  • Trucking Website - Development time: 4 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • Custom Content and Shipping Management
  • Interactive "Jeopardy"-style Game - Development time: 21 days
    • LAMP programming using object-oriented MVC style.
    • AJAX interface tested and fully compliant over all major web browsers
    • Custom Content

Jan 2008 - Present
Humor Box Entertainment
Webmaster

• Exclusively telecommute
• Sole developer
• Still on staff to provide support and development
• KissThisGuy.com averages 5000-6000 unique visitors per day, bursting to as high as 15,000+ in a day.
• KissThisGuy.com ranks in the top 56,000 sites in the US for traffic according to alexa.com.
• Revisions:
  • Revision 1 - Development time: 45 days
    • Overhauled an entertainment website: KissThisGuy.com - The Archive of Misheard Lyrics
    • Overhauled site's implementation of OpenAds PHP-based Ad Server
    • Overhauled smarty-templates for better usage of caching features and consistency
    • Added an entirely custom-written members system which enabled saving favorites, emailing / texting misheard lyrics to a friend, submitting / tracking submissions of misherd lyrics, profiles.
    • Added AJAX to ease administration of site
    • Re-engineered navigation to be more intuitive and increase page views
    • Re-engineered MySQL database using SQL script to convert live data for ~65000 lyrics to new format in less than 60 seconds with zero data loss plus backup of original data.
    • Site signed up 740 new members, had 10,000 submissions, and registered 36000+ votes on the "funniness" of misheard lyrics in first 30 days with less than 20 requests for help/support (less than 3% of signups needed help or were confused with the new design)
  • Revision 2 - Development time: 30 days
    • Created multiple RSS feeds and widgets for use with MySpace (using flash), FaceBook (using FBML), and other sites (using JavaScript)
    • Converted site to table-less design
    • Added custom-written user-comment system for users to comment on misheard lyrics
    • Re-engineered lyric-to-lyric navigation according to user feedback.
    • Created metrics for display (number of votes, number of views, etc.
  • Revision 3 - Development time: 30 Days
    • Obtained top placement for thousands of pages with strategic use of SEO.
    • Began building both a store and online game based on the data. 
      

Apr 2007 - May 2008
TEKSystems / Triumph, LLC

• Recruited through TEKSystems to work for Triumph, LLC
• Maintained company-owned websites.
• Began working 40 hours on site.
• Switched to telecommute.
• Projects:
  • Project 1 - Development time: 2 months
    • Collaborated in a four-man team to build a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for over 130,000 "For Sale By Owner" properties.
    • Built a "screen-scraper" search engine/bot that dynamically searches and collects property information from partner sites and adds them to the central database automatically.
    • Authored the entire user system, including the abilities to save properties, searches, email properties to others, sign up, recover lost passwords, receive automatic email alerts for new properties, and edit account information.
    • Authored the entire vendor-management system to allow partner companies to update and edit their properties on our site.
    • Authored the entire administrative panel to track data on visitors to the site, vendors, and properties from a custom-built, web-based content management system.
    • Integrated Google Maps into site dynamically for every property.
    • Achieved 6000+ visitors per day and thousands of first page search results in Google within 2 months of the site being overhauled.
  • Project 2 - Development time: 1 month
    • Solo project redesigning an affiliate program for a personal credit reporting site.
    • Custom written CMS
    • Custom written Affiliate tracking system
    • Automatic cron jobs to process daily data / sales reports
    • Custom written reporting system with details about visitors, sales, affiliates, and ads
  • Project 3 - Development time: 3 months.
    • Solo project building from scratch a website for foreclosures.
    • Custom CMS system
    • Custom User login, account management, features, similar to Project 1
    • Custom Affiliate system, similar to Project 2
    • AJAX-enabled navigation system for geographical navigation
    • Integration with Google Maps
    • Search engine optimization
    • Built 36 separate "bots" for mining foreclosure data, including ability to post form data, and manage Javascript.  .Each bot custom written for each site it reads.  Data is saved to XML format and later inserted into database by second parser script

Jan 1995 - Present
Freelance Consultant

• Developed South Florida client base of 600 businesses and residences solely through word-of-mouth referrals.
• Performed work including web design, database design, graphic design, system integration, repair, upgrades, training, and networking on Windows 95 through Windows XP, Windows NT, 2000, and 2003 Server, and Macintosh OS 7.1-X (10)

           
Notable Web/PHP/MySQL Design:
www.lgyak.com - an email/sms groupware system written solely in PHP
www.usakoi.com - online store with custom CMS
www.goscoutinc.com - online photo library including category search for location scouting company
www.newtampa.org - annual membership site integrated with automatic recurring billing (paypal)
www.madisonandassociates.com –talent agency website, including web-based businesss mgmt.
www.universalgadgets.com – online store integrated with paypal.

Notable Software design:
web-based project management software – in use for 3 years to date
web-based medical billing software -  in use for 9 years to date
filemaker - based medical billing software – in use for 11 years to date
filemaker - based talent agency management software – in use for 14 years to date
filemaker - based producation company management software – in use for 13 years to date

July 03 - Aug 06
Vanishing Species Wildlife, Inc.
Webmaster / Property Manager            

• Completely overhauled the www.VanishingSpecies.net website including photography, graphics, and GUI.
• Highly data-driven website using Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) architecture.
• Organic search engine optimization obtaining up to 2000 uniques / 20000 hits per day
• Complete web-based administration capabilities to website for easier updates/mgt.
• Custom-written statistical tracking system to track all aspects of visitors including platform, operating system, browser, date, time, page visited and referring site
• Memory-type game written solely in JavaScript
• Integration via MyODBC to FileMaker database to download and print volunteer applications, messages, animal data, membership info and stats.
• Image database system to enable incoming images from FTP, members, or staff, to be keyworded, grouped, and displayed from central library
• All graphic design for company including items for press, in-house printing, and merchandise.

ALSO (Management Experience)

• State-licensed animal handler for all types of predators: 7000 hrs hands-on time
• Supervised handling, feeding and cleaning of a wide variety of exotic animals, from small rodents and reptiles to alligators, panthers, lions, leopards, tigers, bears, and wolves.
• Senior trainer responsible for safety of 200 animals, 120 volunteers & staff, and public
• Habitat construction, relocation, and medical treatment of animals.
• Completed move of 100 exotic animals plus staff and equipment from one facility to another in 4 months with no down time and no health consequences to staff or animals

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mar 01 - Aug 01 & Aug 08 Cipher Systems Interim Operations Manager Oct 99 - May 01 Obvious Networks Contracted Filemaker Developer

Aug 97 - Dec 97 Miami Ad School Teacher - Photoshop, Illustrator Quark Dec 95 - July 97 Computer Village Sales Associate

Dec 93 - Oct 95 Kinko’s: The Copy Center Computer Consultant Copy Consultant

EDUCATION

1993-1995
University of Miami
Marine Biology Major

RELEVANT SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Graphics Acrobat Go Live Illustrator In Design Photoshop Pagemaker Dreamweaver Fireworks Flash Freehand Quark XPress Operating Systems Macintosh OS (7.0 - OS X) Windows (3.11 thru Vista) Linux (Fedora 7-9 / CentOS 4-5) Productivity iLife Microsoft Office Open Office

Desktop Database Access Filemaker Pro Programming C C++ Java Objective-C Cocoa Touch XCode Web Apache AJAX Bash CakePHP CPanel Cron CSS

DNS Drupal Flash FBML (FaceBook) FTP GD Google Maps integration HSP HTML Internet Information Server JavaScript Joomla MySQL OSCommerce Perl PHP 4 & 5 - Procedural and OOP, MVC Plesk WHM XML

HARDWARE EXPERTISE

• Computer equipment, maintenance, and repair, including installation of drives, boards, memory, power supplies, and cases.
• RJ-11 (telephone) and RJ-45 (10/100Base-T) cabling, crimping, and installation.
• High and low volume copiers, printers, and multi-function machines.
• Peripherals including digital cameras, scanners, printers, and external storage.
• PalmPilot and related products.

              
NON-COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

• Heavy equipment including "bobcat" front-end loaders, back-hoe and farm equipment.
• Standard car mechanics and maintenance
• Florida-licensed exotic animal handler, exhibitor, and transporter for
  • Class I (highly lethal) big cats, bears, and crocodiles
  • Class II (potentially lethal) big cats, crocs
  • Class III (non-lethal) all animals, except primates & venomous reptiles
• SCUBA - NAUI - Open Water I
• Construction including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, screen installation