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<h1 id="danjones">Dan Jones</h1>

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<p>Houston, TX 77082<br/>
+1 (704) 326-1626 &bull; <span class="33c12d8ca2a4cb0fc68b88df8329bf53"></span><br/>
<span class="noprint">https://danielrayjones.com/</span></p>

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<h2>Summary</h2>
<p>Web developer with broad experience in both large (educational and commercial) and small(commercial) websites. Designed custom web applications from the ground up, and modified existing open-source applications to meet specific needs. Effective communicator, with experience researching and writing content for educational websites. Social media expertise maintaining Facebook and Twitter accounts for educational institution, and building Facebook applications.</p>

<p>Skills include:</p>
<ul>
	<li>HTML</li>
	<li>CSS</li>
	<li>SASS (SCSS)</li>
	<li>JavaScript</li>
	<li>jQuery</li>
	<li>AJAX</li>
	<li>React</li>
	<li>PHP</li>
	<li>MySQL</li>
	<li>Laravel</li>
  <li>Yii</li>
	<li>Wordpress</li>
	<li>Git</li>
	<li>Grunt</li>
	<li>node.js</li>
	<li>MongoDB</li>
	<li>Apache</li>
	<li>Linux</li>
	<li>Docker</li>
	<li>Google App Engine</li>
  <li>AWS</li>
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<h2>Work History</h2>
<p>Began building websites in the late nineties. Primarily self-taught.<br>
<em class="noprint">Please note: some of the following links are outdated. I'm working on redirecting them to a functional cached version of each of these.</em></p>

<ul>
    <li><p><strong><a href="https://grin.co">GRIN</a></strong><br/>
        <em>Senior Software Engineer</em><br/>
        <em>August 2021 - present</em></p>
        <p>Senior Developer for SaaS company.
            <span class="tech">Laravel, PHP, PHPUnit, MySql, mongodb, Vue</span></p>
    </li>
  <li><p><strong><a href="https://www.bubbleup.net/">BubbleUp</a></strong><br/>
  <em>Senior Web Developer</em><br />
      <em>February 2020 - July 2021</em></p>
      <p>Senior Developer for marketing firm with clients in multiple industries. Sites range from low traffic, to extremely high.
      <span class="tech">Yii, WordPress, PHP, MySQL, AWS, Drupal, custom sites</span></p>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong><a href="https://healthlabs.com/">HealthLabs</a> / <a href="https://www.raven.com/">Starfish</a></strong><br/>
      <em>Project Manager/Tech Lead</em><br />
      <em>October 2017 - January 2020</em></p>
      <p>Lead for API project. Developed Laravel-based API for document management service. Managed team. Set goals. Ensured development was on track.
          <span class="tech">Laravel/Lumen, PHP, PHPUnit, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, Google App Engine, Google Cloud SQL, mongodb, redis, Google Datastore, Google Cloud Storage</span></p>

      <p><em>Senior Full-Stack Developer</em><br/>
          <em>July 2016 - October 2017</em></p>
	    <p>Full-stack development for multiple websites in the health industry, including <a href="https://www.stdcheck.com/">STDCheck</a>, <a href="https://www.healthlabs.com">HealthLabs</a>, <a href="https://www.utitreatment.com/">UTI Treatment</a>.
          <span class="tech">PHP, PHPUnit, MySQL, Laravel, Eloquent, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS, React</span></p>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong>University of Texas Coding Bootcamp</strong><br/>
      <em>Instructor</em><br/>
      <em>October 2016 - May 2017</em></p>

      <p>Taught Full-stack coding bootcamp. Six month program to introduce students to basics of full-stack <abbr title="Mean, Express, React, Node">MERN</abbr> development.
          <span class="tech">HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, APIs, AJAX, Node, Express, MySQL, sequelize, MongoDB, mongoose, PHP, Laravel, Python, React, React-Native</span></p>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong><a href="https://servermonkey.com/">Server Monkey</a></strong><br/>
      <em>Back-end web developer</em><br/>
      <em>November 2015 - July 2016</em><br/></p>

	    <p>Develop Magento-based eCommerce site <span class="tech">PHP, MySQL, Magento, XML, Javascript, jQuery</span></p>
	    <ul>
		      <li>Extend functionality of current site</li>
		      <li>Modify existing site plugins to better fit workflow of sales team.</li>
	    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong>Hubbard Radio &ndash; WTOP/Federal News Radio</strong><br/>
	  <em>Back-end web developer</em><br/>
	  <em>July 2010 - November 2015</em></p>
	<ul>
      <li><span class="project">Wordpress Closings Plugins</span> <span class="tech">Wordpress, PHP</span>
		<ul>
          <li>Wordpress plugin to display school, business, and government closings during inclement weather.</li>
          <li>Includes login system for schools to close schools without newsroom involvement</li>
          <li>Allows newsroom users to change/modify/delete school-created closings if necessary</li>
          <li>Permission system to give users specific rights to modify individual closings, all closings, or administer the system</li>
        </ul>
	  </li>
	  <li><p><span class="project">Two website redesigns [https://wtop.com/ and https://federalnewsradio.com/]</span> <span class="tech">Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Memcache, etc.</span></p>
		<p>Took part in complete redesign of two separate websites, twice.</p></li>
	  <li><p><span class="project"><a class="noprint" href="https://wtop.com/?sid=2185984&amp;nid=719&amp;node=1">NewsQ</a><span class="printonly">NewsQ</span></span> <span class="tech">PHP, MySQL, Memcache, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, SocialMedia</span></p>
		<ul>
		  <li>Designed MySQL database to store data about social ranking of stories on website.</li>
		  <li>Wrote application to fetch data from various social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc.) in order to rank stories according to popularity.</li>
		  <li>Integrated into Memcache to reduce server load.</li>
		  <li>Created front-end resources to display data.</li>
		</ul>
	  </li>
	  <li class="noprint"><p><span class="project">Sports Widget</span> <span class="tech">PHP, Memcache,
			HTML</span></p>
		<p>Wrote application to parse game time information for local sports teams. Integrated into existing
		  front-end.</p></li>
	  <li class="noprint"><p><span class="project"><a href="https://www.federalnewsradio.com/">Thrift Savings Plan
			  Ticker</a></span> <span class="tech">PHP, Memcache, HTML</span></p>
		<p>Wrote application to parse savings plan data from government website, cache on our servers, and display on
		  our website.</p>
	  </li>
	  <li class="noprint"><p><span class="project">Wordpress Importer</span> <span class="tech">PHP,
			Wordpress</span></p>
		<p>Created method for automatically importing new stories from a Wordpress-hosted blog into our site. The
		  purpose was to make the story-creation process easier.</p></li>
	</ul>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong><a href="https://www.me.utexas.edu/">University of Texas &ndash; Mechanical Engineering
		  Department</a></strong><br/>
	  <em>Programmer/Services Assistant</em><br/>
	  <em>May 2008 - May 2010</em></p>
	<p>Maintained website, wrote news stories, and oversaw a number of projects to improve the
	  website<span class="noprint">, including:</span></p>
	<ul class="noprint">
	  <li><p><span class="project"><a href="https://www.me.utexas.edu/sdp/previousprojects.php">Senior Design Projects
			  Database</a></span> <span class="tech">PHP, XHTML, HTML Forms</span></p>
		<p>Designed MySQL database to hold information about past Senior Design Projects. Built from scratch front-end
		  to search database and display information.</p></li>
	  <li><p><span class="project">&ldquo;Intranet&rdquo; site</span> <span class="tech">Wordpress, PHP</span></p>
		<p>Built Wordpress site to host department updates, and information specifically for faculty and staff. Created
		custom Wordpress theme to match theme of the main site.</p></li>
	  <li><p><span class="project">Research Blogs</span> <span class="tech">Wordpress, PHP</span></p>
		<p>Built Wordpress MU site to host research blogs for faculty and graduate students.</p></li>
	  <li><p><span class="project"><a href="https://www.me.utexas.edu/about/">About
			  Section</a></span> <span class="tech">PHP, HTML, CSS, Writing</span></p>
		<p>Created entire section of website for recruiting purposes. Did extensive research.</p></li>
	</ul>
  </li>
  <li class="noprint"><p><strong>Dinkin' Flicka Design</strong><br/>
	  <em>Co-Founder</em><br/>
	  <em>2008</em></p>
	<ul>
	  <li><p><span class="project">V&amp;S Construction</span> <span class="tech">PHP, HTML, CSS</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built from scratch website for local construction company. XHTML 1.0 with some
		  Javascript. CSS2.</p></li>
	</ul>
  </li>
  <li class="noprint"><p><strong>Jones Web Design</strong><br/>
	  <em>Founder</em><br/>
	  <em>2001-2002</em></p>
	<ul>
	  <li><p><span class="project">Dave's Pest Control</span> <span class="tech">HTML, CSS, Javascript</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built from scratch website for local pest control company. XHTML 1.0 with some
		Javascript. CSS2.</p></li>
	</ul>
  </li>
  <li><p><strong>Freelance Projects<span class="printonly">, etc.</span></strong></p>
	<ul>
	  <li><p><span class="project"><a href="https://wedding.danielrayjones.com/">Dan and
			  Kali</a></span> <span class="tech">PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built from scratch own wedding website. Some PHP/MySQL for reservations. JQuery for photo
		  album. Some CSS3.</p></li>
	  <li><p><span class="project"><a href="https://joestryker.com/">Joe Stryker</a></span> <span class="tech">Wordpress,
			AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built website for independent Internet show. Site is built with Wordpress, using a custom-built
		  theme. Some PHP plugins built for the site. Built custom Ajax/DOM effects to improve viewability/response
		  time.</p></li>
	  <li class="printonly"><p><span class="project">V&amp;S Construction</span> <span class="tech">PHP, HTML,
			CSS</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built from scratch website for local construction company. XHTML 1.0 with some
		  Javascript. CSS2.</p></li>
	  <li class="printonly"><p><span class="project">Dave's Pest Control</span> <span class="tech">HTML, CSS,
			Javascript</span></p>
		<p>Designed and built from scratch website for local pest control company. XHTML 1.0 with some
		  Javascript. CSS2.</p></li>
	</ul>
  </li>
</ul>
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<h2>Code Samples</h2>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/danjones000">GitLab</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/goodevilgenius">GitHub Gists</a></li>
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<h2>Education</h2>
<dl><dt>Bachelor of the Arts in Theater and Dance</dt><dd>University of Texas</dd><dd>University Honors</dd><dd>2004 &ndash; 2008</dd><dd>Austin, TX</dd>
<dt class="noprint">Undeclared Major</dt><dd class="noprint">Austin Community College</dd><dd class="noprint">President's Honor Roll</dd><dd class="noprint">2000 &ndash; 2001</dd><dd class="noprint">Austin, TX</dd></dl>
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