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Summary

Enterprise Web Architect, TDD Advocate, and Community Contributor with 30+ years of experience building, securing, and scaling high-availability digital platforms. Prominent Drupal open-source steward (16+ years), maintaining critical ecosystem projects including Easy Breadcrumb, a module natively shipping with the new Drupal CMS initiative. Expert across all generations of Drupal (including modern Drupal 10/11 architectures, TDD integration frameworks, and forward-looking Drupal 12 development). Pioneer in frontier AI implementations within the Drupal ecosystem, decoupled React frameworks, enterprise cloud management (Acquia, AWS, Pantheon), and large-scale legacy data migrations.

Technical Skills

  • Modern Drupal Architecture: Drupal 10, 11, & 12 Readiness, Symfony Components, Plugin API, Hook System Deprecations, Configuration Management, Composer Workflows, Twig 3
  • Automated Testing & TDD: PHPUnit, Static Analysis (PHPStan), Drupal Kernel & Functional Integration Tests, FunctionalJavascript Tests, Nightwatch.js, Cypress, Selenium, Behat, Sonar
  • AI & Frontier Technologies: Drupal AI Core and Contrib Ecosystem, Large Language Model (LLM) Integrations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Workflows, Vector Embeddings
  • Front-End & Decoupled: React.js, ES6+ JavaScript, Node.js, Component-Driven Styling (KSS, Storybook, Canvas Workbench), HTML5, SASS/CSS3, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Data & Infrastructure: Apache Solr Indexing, MySQL/MariaDB/PostGres, MS SQL Migration, Apache, Nginx, Docker, DDEV/Lando, SSH, Bash Scripting, Acquia Cloud, AWS, Pantheon, CI/CD Pipelines
  • Specializations: Core/Contrib Module Maintenance, Web Accessibility (WCAG/Section 508), Enterprise Security Hardening, REST/GraphQL APIs

Open Source Stewardship & Community Impact

Project Maintainer, Easy Breadcrumb (Core Ecosystem Module) | 2017 – Present

  • Actively maintain and architect Easy Breadcrumb, a foundational navigation module officially integrated into the core-curated Drupal CMS distribution.
  • Shipped dozens of performance, schema, testing, and architectural optimization improvements over recent months to improve seamless out-of-the-box compatibility for 100,000+ global installs.
  • Audit codebase continually for upcoming deprecations to guarantee a zero-friction upgrade path to the upcoming Drupal 12 lifecycle.

Frontier AI Innovation & Community Collaboration

  • Active Member, Drupal AI Learners Club: Collaborate directly with global ecosystem innovators within official Drupal Slack channels to discuss, test, and implement bleeding-edge AI initiatives and agentic workflows.
  • Versed in leveraging Drupal AI modules to integrate frontier models, automate content generation matrices, build conversational search interfaces, and architect RAG solutions inside enterprise web applications.

Additional Project Maintenance & Contributions

  • Maintainer: Config Suite, Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker.
  • Core Readiness: Made major contributions to the Drupal 8 Multilingual Demo project, preparing Drupal 8 for multilingual deployment during alpha and beta core cycles.
  • Security & Docs: Contributed to security advisories and numerous technical documentation edits on Drupal.org. Credited in resolving over 200 public issues.

Professional Experience

Redaptive.com | Staff Software Engineer | Nov 2018 – Jun 2023

  • Served firstly as the solo Front-end and Drupal Architect, scaling the platform and engineering operations from a single-developer model to a high-performing global team of 10+ engineers.
  • Engineered decoupled React.js interfaces backed by enterprise Drupal installations on Acquia Cloud, integrating real-time AWS data streams and collaborating cross-functionally with an internal Java engineering team.
  • Designed, documented, and maintained the foundational core codebases, establishing the architectural standards, code style guides, and Git workflows for the entire growing department.
  • Spearheaded engineering knowledge management and project governance across the Atlassian suite, creating comprehensive technical documentation in Confluence and structuring agile workflows in Jira.

Zicasso.com | Senior Drupal Developer | 2016 – Aug 2018

  • Maintained a high-traffic, highly complex transactional e-commerce platform connecting global travelers with agencies.
  • Built custom architectural components including automated invoicing mechanisms and secure internal messaging systems.
  • Developed a component-driven front-end ecosystem via a living style guide and design pattern library using KSS.
  • Implemented and executed a custom multi-variate (A/B) testing engine to continuously optimize user conversion funnels utilizing Pantheon Multisite and Google Analytics.

SunPower.com | Senior Drupal Developer | 2015 – 2016

  • Led development for the SunPower "Savings Calculator," which won the 2016 Oracle Markie Award for Best Web or Commerce Experience.
  • Engineered an internationalized multi-site architecture, developing streamlined multilingual translation workflows on Acquia.

Alzforum.org | Senior Drupal Developer | 2013 – 2014

  • Served as lead developer rebuilding a 15-year-old scientific networking platform into an enterprise Drupal architecture hosted on Acquia.
  • Migrated over 150,000 legacy content items from an aging MSSQL database; leveraged Apache Solr to perform complex scientific database searches.
  • Integrated a 3rd-party vendor's responsive template into a custom theme, and built a custom publishing/review system that integrated with PubMed APIs to pull in nightly scientific updates.

Early Career & Enterprise Contract Experience | Senior Drupal Developer | 2012 – 2013

  • University of Phoenix (Research Portal): Collaborated directly with Acquia teams to develop and launch an agile, responsive portal for research fellows under highly aggressive timelines.
  • General Electric (Inside GE Software): Built an internal, responsive corporate platform using custom installation profiles, heavily leveraging panels/ctools for a highly flexible content editing experience.
  • Johnson & Johnson: Engineered mobile-responsive Drupal sites for One Touch diabetes testers and for Children With Diabetes, crafting multi-step AJAX-driven forms with custom Google Analytics tracking funnels.

Additional Information

  • Languages: Native English; conversational proficiency in basic Spanish (read, write, speak).
  • Interests: Science, health and safety, communication, music, and open-source mentoring.