Clients

Wrote a custom admin panel, and WordPress plugin to display a “writer’s widget” on a writer’s personal blog. The client manages all anchor text and image alts within the admin panel. Writers install a WordPress plugin, choose the categories for their writing, enter their author URL and pick a theme. The widget then displays spiderable links within the widget, using the anchor text chosen by Suite101′s SEO team.

Built an admin panel for the client to manage organization contact info, which is then displayed (and is searchable) on the website. Symfony was used to build the back end, and a small WordPress plugin manages search and display on the website itself (WordPress CMS.)

Client’s custom-built shopping cart, based on CodeIgniter’s Cart class needed some work before it was production ready. I added some payment options, made tweaks to the admin interface and cart front end, added inventory control functionality and provided on-going support through their sales seasons.

Developed a custom WordPress plugin which integrates myRealPage’s listings directly into a WordPress blog. Unlike other solutions used to integrated real estate listings into a WordPress site, this plugin does not use JavaScript. Instead, it “proxies” results from myRealPage’s servers and delivers content inline, making it 100% visible to search engines and SEO friendly.

More here: myRealPage WordPress Listings Plugin

Custom webapp for the school, which allows their students to search for and generate course listings in text, PDF and email format. The admin panel allows the administrators to manage courses, as well as the content blocks displayed on the front end. The front end search works with subject, grade level and keyword. Results can be displayed as HTML, exported to PDF or sent to the student via email.

Developed a custom WordPress theme from the client’s PSDs. The biggest challenge on this project was the horizontally scrolling galleries and giving the client a way to update them herself. The solution was a custom template for an existing WordPress plugin that already had image upload and gallery management features. This resulted in a reduction of development time and a system the client was extremely happy with.

Developed custom WordPress theme from PSD designed by Tegan and Sara’s art director. Developed custom plugin to import the band’s show calendar from an online calendar (iCal). Once theme was complete, I rebuilt it to work with a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to improve performance. Implemented a merchandise voting application from scratch that allowed fans to vote on their favorite merchandise.

Contract Linux sysadmin with varied responsibilities – hired to help with E-xact’s transition to virtualized hardware (Xen on RHEL 5). Set up and configured several different types of servers (NFS, web, DB, reverse proxies). Wrote scripts to push their nightly subversion backups to Amazon S3. On-call for dealing with outages.

Server builds and configuration and management for 18 WordPress sites with servers located in 4 different countries. Did content conversions and remedial SEO changes to the WordPress theme with another contractor.

Wrote a Facebook application that allows Realtors to provide market snapshots of their area. The application integrated with Top Producer’s MarketSnapshot application and was written in plain PHP.

Built a reporting system from scratch using Symfony that allows the senior managers at Please Mum to import customer survey data from vovici.ca, set goals and generate nationwide, regional and individual store reports. These reports show which stores are getting survey results closer to the company goals, and it assigns a ranking to each regional manager and store. A permissions system was built so the administrator can see all results but store owners can only see comments left by customers and not their rankings.

Added a sharing feature that is similar to the Facebook sharer in that it parses the page the user is sharing to extract relevant text (title and description) and several images. The user then chooses one of the images and shares the page on Osmosus through their Glog (“green” blog).