A little bit about me

I am a multi-talented, motivated individual who is looking to change career paths. I am currently employed by NUMMI where I hold the position of Senior Specialist in the Security section of the General Affairs department. I have been with NUMMI for nine years, all in Security, having advanced through 15 levels of promotion in that time.

Through the years I have developed a strong drive and desire to expand my knowledge base. I have, over the past five years, taken on several different responsiblities from requisitions/purchase orders to fire systems management to budgeting to sales. I am a self-starter and I am always looking for ways to improve current situations.

I am also a self-taught PHP/MySQL developer that has been writing code since 1998. I began by hard coding HTML after learning it from a magazine. I briefly dabbled in Perl in 2002 before discovering PHP in 2003. Since then I have become very proficient in PHP/MySQL development both on Linux and Windows platforms.

In my spare time I help the PHP development community by moderating the very popular PHP Developers Network Forums, on which I am in the top seven posters in total contributions (3,600 as of 8/7/06).

Career Highlights

The following are some milestones that I have achieved:

  • Promotional advancement through 15 levels in nine years
  • Perfect attendence for nine years
  • Implemented cost savings of over $800,000 per year
  • Nine years of Standard or Above Standard employee reviews
Relevent Work Experience

Senior Specialist, New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. — Sep 1997 to Present

  • Corporate security, fire and facility protection
  • Emergency response planning, development, training and coordination
  • Management of over $1.5M of company assets
  • Management of $4M+ annual department budget
  • Coordination of annual departmental goals and objectives
  • Management and maintenance of Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Contracts

Web Application Developer, Everah Media Services Company — Mar 2003 to Present

  • Concept to Delivery, standards-compliant web application development
  • Object Oriented PHP Programming
  • MySQL database development
  • LAMP stack management (Fedora Core, HTTPd 2, MySQL5, PHP 4/5)
  • (X)HTML and CSS standards compliant UI Development
  • Moderator on the PHP Developers Network community forums

Community Work Supervisor, The Independent Way — Aug 1994 to Aug 1997

  • Supervision of production workers
  • Compliance with OSHA regulations and VocRehab policies
  • First-aid and Emergency response
  • Worker reviews, time studies and job training
Skills and Training
  • Microsoft Office (Expert)
  • Lotus Notes (Advanced)
  • Peoplesoft Financials (Advanced)
  • MySQL 3,4,5 (Advanced)
  • (X)HTML (Advanced)
  • CSS 1, 1.1, 2 (Advanced)
  • PHP 4 (Advanced)
  • PHP 5 (Intermediate)
  • phpMyAdmin (Advanced)
  • Apache HTTPd (Intermediate)
  • Linux (Fedora Core) (Beginner)
  • ASP (VBScript) (Advanced)
  • SQL Server (Intermediate)
  • Javascript (Intermediate)
  • C#.NET (Beginner)