Phil Pastorek

Build out of custom features and layouts in the ARC Publishing platform with ReactJS.

Oversee management of technology at KnifeCenter. Manage the development teams, oversaw and participated in the development of the company's next generation e-commerce platform, as well as maintained it's existing platform.

Professional highlights at KnifeCenter included:

• Established best practices, secured checkout and logging mechanisms to bring the company closer to PCI compliance.
• Managed and participated in the maintenance of the existing infrastructure.
• Resolved many critical issues with the company's aging infrastructure.
• Consolidated internal and external technical services the company uses to streamline the technology budget.
• Managed a team of developers and creative.
• Oversaw build and migration of existing e-commerce platform to Magento 2 with external vendors.
• Created replacement credit card processing and shipping estimate utilities in NodeJS as well as many back end admin utilities with ReactJS, VueJS, MySQL and MSSQL.
• Mentored and reviewed team members. Lead by serving their needs to clear obstacles and fostered collaboration and efficiency in the team.

Specializing in the architecture and build-out of SaaS and traditional web application services.

Hitcher is a new social platform that promotes personal connections and meaningful interaction through shared experiences. At Hitcher I architected, managed, and implemented all web based technologies, as well as backend systems for all platforms.

UI/UX team lead in charge of developing the company's enterprise level mobile responsive front-end SaaS offering in AngularJS, Zurb Foundation, HTML5, and CSS3. Target application audience is tuned for the mid to low end non profit advocacy and donation space.

Professional highlights at Salsa Labs included:

• MV* development with AngularJS
• Architected the project's UI development structure and base framework
• Worked heavily with HTML5, SASS/SCSS utilizing CSS3 modernizations, Grunt and Bower.
• Converted many jQuery only Javascript utilities to AngularJS directives to be used natively in the app, as well constructing wrappers for some that could not be easily converted.
• Consumption and assisted in design of the platform's REST API.
• Constructed NodeJS mock API instances for in-development UI communication.
• Managed a team of four front end developers in a parallel development stratagem, which included developers located locally and abroad.
• Presented SCRUM sprint demonstrations for the larger development team at the end of each sprint cycle.
• Trained new developers in the project's standards, schemas and code base to get them productive fast.
• Worked closely with the senior management team and product manager for task assignment, scheduling, and prioritization.
• Managed the UI project's Git version controlled repository.

My responsibilities at Virid included UI/UX construction from a front end web development role to team collaboration taking the UI that was made and integrating it with the company's custom E-Commerce solution. In an average day you will catch me throwing together HTML5/CSS3 templates utilizing several of the most modern HTML frameworks on the market today, such as Zurb Foundation and Twitter bootstrap, utilizing Section 508 Compliance and SEO best practices.

Professional highlights at Virid included:

• Custom jQuery/javascript plugin creation
• HTML5/CSS3 utilization
• Front end team member recipient of a silver DC Addie award for Journey's BBQ 2012 website
• AJAX/JSON data communication to ASPX, C#, VB backend systems

Websites that I worked on at Virid:

A'GACI

agacistore.com

Bakers Shoes

bakersshoes.com

Journeys Shoes

journeys.com

Virid - Revere

revere.marketagility.com

Journey's BBQ 2012

journeysbbq.com
Silver DC Addy Award

Johnston & Murphy

johnstonmurphy.com

Lead technologist for a small, niche marketing firm. Worked with a team of professionals to create and maintain over 30 high-traffic websites that drew millions of visitors per month. Managed system operations, server infrastructure and application development based on business needs. Implemented SEO best practices to achieve ranking in search engine results.

Professional highlights at Charlie Company included:

• Designed, developed, and launched a custom CMS to handle over 20 data-intensive websites.
• Overseeing advertising and affiliate sales revenue of over $2 million per year.
• Developed a social marketing application that increased monthly traffic by 15% after launch.
• Managed contractors and small team of employees on internal software projects.
• Maintained the organization’s OpenX ad server and managed advertising campaigns. Designed advertising banners as needed.
• Fielded data mining requests, social network marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and maintaining Web content as part of daily responsibilities.

Worked independently for the business division of a large internet corporation. I developed software to help the sales and implementation teams efficiently process orders. I also managed a large commercial Microsoft Windows based web hosting platform for business customers.

Professional highlights at RCN included:

• Designed and developed intranet CRM systems, eliminating paper orders and increasing efficiency.
• Maintained High Availability (HA) clustered networks of application servers; maintained hardware and software of commercial MS Windows based web hosting platforms of over 30 web servers and SAN storage networks.
• Developed data migration tools that connected to Salesforce.com.
• Collaborated in deciding technological means and feasibility of future software/hardware requirements.