I managed a team of up to 6 developers while running my own company, training and inspiring them to achieve success while ensuring project delivery.

At Platform.sh. I was the first team leader to lead two teams: The USA and the Europe teams) simultaneously.

I believe in Agile development and I am notably a Certified Scrum Master

Everywhere I work, I try to increase morale and inspire people to achieve greatness with great positiveness and a cheerful attitude.

I also try to improve company culture by adding to the exciting cultural initiatives or by building a cultural framework where one is absent.

For example, at Fiska, I introduced a bi-weekly board game lunch where up to 10 of the 12 employees participated, and began creating a culture of eating together at lunch time.

I have managed hundreds of projects to completion, often managing not only junior developers working under my supervision but also developers from external firms working simultaneously on a project.

I ran SCRUM meetings and working in Sprints (personally, I find that 3 weeks sprints are optimal, but I can work with other intervals)

I have been coding in PHP since early 2001 and built tens of thousands of sites using pure PHP or various CMS systems such as TYPO3.

I typically code using OOP and still follow the strict TYPO3 coding guideline which ban the use of inline HTML (using ?> and <?php inside a file), single line statements (if, while or for without brackets) and global functions and variables.

I have built many MVC applications using various frameworks/CMS such TYPO3 ,Fat Free, Symfony, PhalconPHP and CakePHP, in addition to custom made systems.

Ever since I took an advanced SQL class at McGill University, I have been obsessed with Databases! I implemented the first SQL databases in my first job fresh out of college and never stopped working with SQL.

I have expert knowledge of MySQL and advance knowledge of MSSQL, having worked notably with custom triggers.

I have almost as much experience with JavaScript as with PHP as I believed in Full Stack development before it was a thing: I was building  JavaScript enhanced PHP application already in 2002 and 2003!

I mainly used JQUERY as a Framework since both TYPO3 and WordPress relied on it for the longest of time have I have built amazing JQUERY-UI applications.

I also worked on a few projects with ReactJS

Almost at every point of my career I was also tasked to handle some level of customer support, either internal (the employees of my clients) or externals (the end users themselves).

I have learned patience with non-technical users and how to properly talk to them without being condescening or sarcastic.

I spent the first 14 years of my web development career working almost exclusively with TYPO3.

This made me the developer who wrote a world record  number of TYPO3 extensions (over 1850) and the most experienced TYPO3 developer in North America (on the day I stopped building TYPO3 websites in 2018).

 I was also the 2nd TypeHead nominated (head of a Country for TYPO3 affairs, including Marketing of TYPO3) and remained in position until the program was disbanded.

I integrated over a thousand TYPO3 templates.

You can recognize a senior developer at his (or her) ability to quickly change and adapt to new languages and/or frameworks.

At Fiska, I was thrown into C# and quickly began the developer modifying the most lines of code in their C# payment software while keeping the connectivity to the Symfony based REST API backend.

I have used git for CD/CI deployments for years, notably using Gitflow and Github.

I even built for previous employers custom git tools to help new users navigate the complexity of using Git in a multi-user environment.

Complex merges, cherry-picking, pull requests and squashing merges hold no secrets for me.

At Fiska, I worked on a Symfony REST API back-end based on JSON:API. I improved the quality of the back-end by added new endpoints, new functionalities, input validation notably based on custom validators.

I had however, worked on previous projects made with symfony!

I have executed a few projects using the test driven development method including with the World Council of Church for an almost year long project of vital operational importance!

I have worked hand in hand with QA engineers to help automate tests based on Testrail and Jenkins

Mainly in 2017, I built a few websites applications using the Fat-Free Framework, notably using its MVC module.

While employed at EmpowerDB, I build their Google Chrome Extension which features dynamically refreshing tabs via AJAX, persistent timers for tracking tasks and a full overview of the current state of the company.

I have built dozens of solid highly used REST API servers, most of which are still in use today for business critical operations!

Of course, I also wrote REST API clients, but which developers didn’t?