Brent Thomas Johnson

Gerobellum, Inc

Chicago, Illinois

Freelance Computer Consulting.

Senior Application Developer

• mpatmos.com: Currently developing an E-commerce site for New York designer Marcia Patmos that works in conjunction with leroyandperry.com, a collaborative site that presents another line of work. Mpatmos.com and leroyandperry work are integrated from an administrative standpoint in order to streamline product display and client orders.
• leroyandperry.com: Leroyandperry consist of the second domain managed my Mpatmos Design, Inc.
• jameskjohnson.com/index/1/: Currently working on a site to display the work of artist James K Johnson. The site attempts to present the past, present, and future work of the artist, in addition to revealing the process behind designing and building large scale metal sculptures, small scale bronze casting, and other pieces built from bronze, copper, aluminum, and glass. The site utilizes Flash, PHP, and MySql
• chicagovillagecobbler.com: The Village Cobbler needed a site to display and describe the work they do on shoe, purse, and leather repair. The goal of the site was to characterize the history of the shop and create a page the illustrates the worked performed utilizing before and after photograhy.
• yoursportingapparel.com: Developed an E-commerce site for a sporting apparel provider. The site utilizes PHP, MySQL, AJAX, and interfaces with UPS to verify shipping rates and track packages. The project also contains a custom shopping cart and checkout module that interfaces with the merchant bank account.
• vipertradeshow.com: Recently completed work on an online tool for Viper Tradeshow Services that offers their clients the ability to order and configure their exhibits for various cross country trade shows and services. Zero bugs have been reported since going live in late January 2010. Viper Tradeshow Services is a major service provider for internal corporate events, company launches, and corporate showcases throughout the U.S. and Canada. The application has a web interface to help plan and manage the logistics of trade shows across the country for all of their clients. The system has incorporated business rules to allow for special labor rates, custom rates for products/variants for each individual show location, and customized tax rates for different cities, states, and municipalities. Recently built system enabling the administrator to upload show kits and documents, and the ability to link of the document to a show, saving the document information to a the database, and allowing the customer to download the show kit once they have registered for the event. System requires code to create account and tracks all user clicks. A flexible invoicing system has been created that allows Viper administrators to add subsequent surcharges and/or credits to existing orders which interacts with the credit card processor and simultaneously sends out an updated invoice to the client.
• michaeljordansteaks.com: Responsible for maintaining and developing e-commerce site and productCart backend utilizing ASP 3.0 and SQL Server 2005. Currently enhancing the Content Management System and drop-shipping capabilities of the site. Developed new inventory management system that tracks inventory levels on not only product levels but also the packing used in the sale of products including the number of ice packs, Styrofoam containers and gift boxes used. Developing corporate gifting center that allows single user to create a list of recipients and customize gifts and select dates specific dates gifts are processed.
• gavina-graphics.com: Developed client portal for screen-printing and embroidery company to manage the web orders of multiple domains. Gavina-Graphics has been contracted by various companies/clients to produce garments. Web application system also contains unique login for each company/client so they view orders and log all customer correspondence and manage all products for the different domains. Currently building system to handle bulk orders. Set up photo studio and trained staff on how to use equipment and edit/organize product images.
• eiuclothing.com: Developed and Architect for e-commerce site. Created custom cart that is designed to display multiple variations of garment types and size runs for individual products. Created an administrative system that tracks all credit card transactions, manages inventory updates, customer service correspondence/questions for orders/product questions and logs all administrative activity with user names and time stamps. Built system that views products and corresponding variants with AJAX making it easy for the customer to browse all the possible color/size combinations and place them in the cart as quickly as possible. Set up photo studio and equipment. Photographed and edited product images currently on site.
• products-rainbows.org: Lead Developer and Architect for e-commerce site for not-for-profit organization for children. Product views and cart checkout was developed primarily with AJAX.
• yogaview.com: Developed content management system. Created web based administrative tools that control the schedule, class levels, and instructors biographies, Responsible for coding and sending out company bulk emails to subscriber list. Currently designing a e-commerce module for online class registrations.

Bonn Clothing Company LLC

Chicago, Illinois

Online Retailer.

Senior Application Developer

• Lead Developer and Architect for e-commerce site. Developed proprietary system that connects the brick and mortar POS RPRO systems to the online system resulting in real time inventory data. Completed importing sales and product data from a third party service into proprietary system. Created scripts to matched previously unmatched RPRO data with web data into the new system. Built and managed server farm configuration that supports web business.
• Utilized MySQL, PHP, Linux, AJAX, CSS, Apache, Active Directory for company network, MSDE for shipping integration and intermediary database between web database and RPRO proprietary database, and RPRO
• Built Qmail bulk email system that sent out 600,000 - 700,000 emails per week and tracked user the opening of the email, and subsequent site views.
• Enhanced Search Engine Optimization via Apache rewrites and CSS.
• Built system for photography department to track and organize products and variants in shoot lists. Built system to match thousand of catalogue images with corresponding products.
• Created SOAP interface with FedEx and UPS shipping systems that provides customer tracking, rate quotes, required signatures, and price confirmation.
• Built GUI interface for content management system for company policies and press releases.
• Developed robust reporting system that reflects profit margins, daily and monthly sales statistics, and email click-through and open rates. All reports export to Excel.
• Managed network and company email.
• Designed artwork for emails and affiliate programs. Redesigned logo and graphics on website.
• Built backend system that coordinates work flow among the creative, customer, and shipping departments.
• Developed coupon system that limits by dates, users, sale items, or profiles.

Caxy, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois

Computer Consulting.

Senior Web Application Developer

• Lead developer for education website for the medical industry. Designed and implemented an email newsletter and calendar/scheduling application. Built backend tools used to publish online articles and send out automated notices to subscribers. Developed and implemented access level permissions to administrative tools and client side web pages. Developed automatic payment module and notification.
• Lead Developer for education website for an options trading company. Responsible for designing and developing backend administrative tools to manage users, subscriptions, and payment schedules. Created web interface to educational subscriptions, online discussion boards, and built custom shopping cart. Conceptualized and developed custom coupon payments options and integrated it with existing payment methods.
• Worked on numerous hospital web sites consisting of a content management, calendar module, event registration application, and newsletter with bulk mailer administrative tools. Utilized PHP, MySql, Linux, and PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository).

Technium, Inc.

Chicago, Illinois

Computer Consulting.

Web Programmer

• Worked on a web application for the insurance industry using the .Net framework, Visual Studio.net, ASP.net, VB.net, Crystal Reports, SQL Server 2000, DevTrack, and Visual SourceSafe. Responsibilities included designing and building dynamic PDF reports across all modules of the application. Development included creating/accessing stored procedure in SQL 2000, grouping and sorting data in Crystal Reports, formatting objects, design page and report headers, and incorporate sub reports within main reports. Significant time was devoted to writing formulas (scripts) used to format titles, data, sections, and headers conditionally based on data returned in query.
• Member of three man team that developed content manager for client web site using PHP/Oracle on Red Hat 7.1. Primary role in this three month project consisted of designing and implementing the code for all the screens, the navigation structure, and style sheets.
• Member of Internet/intranet development/design team. Designed and implemented web sites for clients including Go2Call.com and CertificateDepot.com. Worked with ASP, JavaScript, HTML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Homesite, and Visual Studio 6.0.
• Member of eight man team that developed an online financial application using ASP 3.0, Visual Basic, and DB2).

Active Endeavors

Chicago, Illinois

Web Designer

• Worked on team to design and implement company website. Developed numerous features using Perl/CGI and MySQL. Designed graphics using Illustrator and Photoshop.

Computing Services Offices/University of Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

Unix System Administrator

• System administrator for a Unix BSD 4.3 mainframe system. Performed backups, maintained newsgroups, set up and troubleshot printers, created student accounts, and provided general technical support.