sholsinger.com

resumé

Stephen Holsinger

70 Broadway
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229
e: sholsinger {a} gmail_com
p: 717.451.5769

I am a Web Developer in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA area. An enthusiastic quick learner specializing in PHP, MySQL, and Linux with in depth experience with PHP on Windows with MSSQL. Experienced with ASP .NET development with SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Windows, Unix, and Linux systems administration and configuration, networking, communications and IT infrastructure planning, installation, and maintenance.

Work Experience:

Independent Contractor

2008-05-28 to present, Affordable Engineering Services, Inc. [www.affordservices.com]

ASP .Net Developer performs a variety of tasks associated with the development of standard and unique computer applications to support the requirements of Tobyhanna Army Depot programs. Contributes in any of the stages of the software development life cycle management (i.e., plan, design, develop, code, test, revise, installation, implementation, documentation, deploy, and support for new or existing applications software). Provides expert-level skills with web publishing, Java, C Sharp, ASP .NET, Visual Basic 2005, OLAP, AJAX, Visual Studio, and ORACLE.

Lead Web Developer

2006-08-01 to present, Steel Lotus Solutions [www.steellotus.net]

Steel Lotus Solutions is a partnership company with my wife, Candice. Responsibilities include completing projects as per specifications from our customers. Developing functional specifications and contracts for projects. Use existing knowledge of web development standards and techniques to provide answers to clients regarding their projects. Continue learning languages and techniques being used in web development. Manage product offerings such as: web design, development, and hosting, data transformation and cleansing, e-commerce business development consultation, and intra/extra-net application development. Acted as lead developer for customer projects.

Systems Administrator

2007-08-01 to 2008-05-26, ELK Lighting, Inc. And Landmark Lighting, Inc. [www.elklighting.com]

Primary job responsibilities include maintenance of computer systems and networks. Major projects include: infrastructure planning and deployment for a 174,000 square foot warehouse with the ability to easily upgrade to wireless warehouse technologies by simply installing the access points, implement a storage server for consolidating the company’s data, replace a malfunctioning email server that was running on the same system as the web server, overhaul the company’s malfunctioning phone system by switching to a hosted managed voice over IP telephony solution, upgrade internal infrastructure to support the extra load incurred by VoIP technologies. Minor on-going projects included monitoring the security of the local network, remote servers, and remote workers’ workstations. Additionally offered levels 1-3 tech support to a 50 person office. Secondary job responsibilities include management of web sites and databases.

Web Systems Architect

2007-02-02 to 2007-08-01, ELK Lighting, Inc. And Landmark Lighting, Inc. [www.elklighting.com]

Responsible for management of existing web sites, search engine optimization, and the development of new websites. Oversee and plan for growth and development of internal IT infrastructure. Monitor logs for security threats and defend against attacks. Maintain digital assets and assist IT Manager in developing a plan for backup and recovery of critical systems and data. Manage multiple locations infrastructure and ensure secure communication between them by installing a gateway to gateway IPSEC VPN. Write and maintain custom applications to automate daily tasks for various personnel within the company; more specifically to increase productivity and accuracy. Implement a secure, reliable solution to bridge the gap between ELK’s web server, which is utilizing a Linux platform, with the ERP solution’s database server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2003. Ensure proper documentation for all projects and solutions. Provide level 3 help desk support for a 40-user network which included several office workstations in remote buildings. Assist IT Manager with projects as needed.

Web Developer and RTML Programmer

2006-06-01 to 2006-10-27, Solid Cactus, Inc. [www.solidcactus.com]

Responsible for developing Yahoo! Merchant Solutions stores in Yahoo!’s proprietary language, RTML. Responsible for completing projects on time as per project manager’s specifications. Assist Project Manager to determine client’s requirements. Assist Sales Team in projecting costs for proposals. Projects often required slicing of Adobe Photoshop documents (.psd) for use in W3C compliant CSS 1.0 with x HTML 1.0 and HTML 4.1 markup. I assisted with a more advanced internal project using PHP and MySQL. Responsible for markup of email marketing campaigns and ensuring proper display in as many clients as possible.

Intern

2006-01-15 to 2006-03-30, Hanover Direct, Inc. [www.hanoverdirect.com]

Application and web development to support EDI department, internal personnel, and vendors. Projects were completed as per specification of the project manager. Major project included re-writing an internal application to use Visual Basic .NET instead of Visual Basic 6. I discovered several memory leaks and fixed them while rewriting the application. The new application performed the same tasks in about a third of the previous version’s run time. The program searched archived purchase orders and invoices to provide metrics by date and / or by Vendor ID. During this project I learned a lot about object-oriented programming and professional coding techniques.

Education:

Associates of Science in Internet Technology

2004-10-05 to 2006-03-30, Lehigh Valley College

Diploma

2004-06-25, Oxford Christian Academy