Phillip Ryan Oles

Objective

Seeking work in PHP/MySQL driven web development. Including but not limited to: website development, debugging, module porting/development, themeing, javascript trickery, e-commerce, social-networking, wiki interfaces, and of course all things Drupal (an open source web framework/CMS).

Technical Skills

Work Experience

• Enter Media LLC.

  Developer (May 2009 - present)

• Pare Technologies

  Developer (2006 - present)

  Served as Lead Program Developer on several projects built on Drupal. Duties varied from experimental proof of concepts to module development to be deployed on live production sites. These projects ranged from developing modules that "scrape" crime data off government web sites then used to dynamically create comprehensive maps of this data for the San Antonio area to developing full CRMs (Client Relationship Managers) for the real estate market. Through my experience at Pare Technologies my programming and development skills increased. Project requirements for themed output provided me the unique opportunity to bridge the gap between pure software development and interacting with designers and clients to provide tighter interface designs and to reduce production time.

• Respond Media

  Developer (July 2008 - January 2009)

  Serving on the development team for Respond Media's large scale social networking project, Career Connection Network. Designed to link business professionals to corporate recruiters. My responsibilities here span the entire spectrum of Drupal development: intricate and fast paced themeing work, custom module development, integration with existing modules often requiring patches and debugging in tandem with module maintainer, and extensive jquery/ajax implementation. Currently, we are in the process of porting the entire site to Drupal 6, as it is built on Drupal 5, while simultaneously adding new features, design, and functionality.

• Brown McKee Inc.

  IT Specialist (2005 - 2006)

  Initially hired for light technical assistance, but responsibilities quickly evolved into full technical support. Duties included maintaining, updating, and optimizing Windows Server 2003, troubleshooting and upgrading network hardware (hubs, routers, access points, etc...), updating and maintaining software and hardware on over a dozen desktop machines, consulting in possible solutions to accounting database upgrades and a reworking of the current mail server, and many of the other tasks involved in the rigors of on-site technical support.

• Texas Tech University

  Research (1999 - 2001)

  Participated in research and development at the university's haptics laboratory. The focus of this project was to interface various haptic devices with medical data represented in a virtual environment. The end result being virtual surgery simulation for use in medical training. Main duties included researching existing haptic applications, implementing the laparoscopic impulse engine in virtual environments, and creating dynamic OpenGL programs which respond to various collision detection algorithms.

Education

Texas Tech University

Studied curriculum for a Mathematics major with an minor in Computer Science.