Evan Coury
Senior Software Engineer | Gilbert, Arizona, United States
+1 (602) 403-5510 | me@evancoury.com
Summary
Over eight years of programming, development, and management experience; seven years of which have been professional, fast-paced, and high-demand. Notable strengths include strong experience in project management, team and individual development, outstanding motivation, innovative problem solving, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Qualifications
Languages
- Expert in: PHP, JavaScript/AJAX/JSON/Node.js, Bash/Shell, Python, (X)HTML, CSS, and Flash ActionScript
- Familiar with: C, Perl, Ruby (on Rails), and Java/JSP
PHP Specific
- Certified: Zend Framework and PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer; Brainbench PHP 5.3 Certified.
- Version Diversity: PHP 4, 5, 5.3, and actively following 6 development.
- PHP Frameworks: Zend Framework (contributor), Symfony, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Smarty Template Engine, etc
- PHP Tools & QA: APC, PHPUnit, Xdebug, phpDocumentor, PEAR/PECL, PHPLint, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, and phpcpd.
Other Qualifications
- Database: Deep knowledge of ANSI SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB, etc).
- Best Practices: Extensive knowledge of OOP principles and design patterns. Strong proponent of MVC and dependency injection.
- Community Involvement: Contributor to various open source projects and communities such as Zend Framework and WebOS-Internals. ZendCon attendee; ZendCon UnCon speaker. Founder of open source projects such as Shorty, a Node.js SMPP client/server and Issues, an elegantly simple issue tracker.
- High Scalability & Availability: Knowledge and experience with various scaling and failover techniques such as database clustering/replication, partitioning, and load balancing in addition to utilizing Memcached, DRBD, and Heartbeat / Pacemaker.
- Mobile Platforms: Extensive knowledge and experience creating web-based solutions for mobile phones including mobile web sites, applications, audio/video streaming, content delivery, GPS integration, SMS Gateways (SMPP, etc). Strong knowledge of Palm (HP) WebOS platform and Mojo JavaScript framework. Contributor to WebOS-Internals open source community.
- Miscellaneous: Regular Expressions, Web Services (XML/JSON-RPC, REST, SOAP, etc), Version Control (GIT/Subversion), Linux/Apache/Nginx (LAMP) Management, JavaScript frameworks (jQuery/jQuery UI, Prototype/Scriptaculous, MooTools, Ext JS, Dojo Toolkit), Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Strategies, payment gateways and PCI-compliance, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), IMS Global E-Learning Standards, and more.
Experience (In reverse chronological order by end-date.)
Southwest Medical and Rehab, Inc.
Web Development Manager 06/2008 - Present
Develop, maintain, and manage a complex, custom e-commerce platform for multiple high-traffic, high-revenue e-commerce websites. Provide one-on-one web development training and consulting. Successfully manage design/development staff to meet deadlines. Developed an innovative, one-of-a-kind wheelchair parts shopping platform that has revolutionized the way people around the world get parts for their wheelchairs and other durable medical equipment.
MediaTech Designs, LLC
Owner, Web Development Manager 05/2001 - Present
Design and develop various websites and web-based applications as business ventures as well as for a wide variety of clients.
Manage employees to successfully meet goals and deadlines, satisfy clients, and generate a solid revenue stream for the company.
Launched and operate a large-scale SMS gateway service, SMSCloud.com, which powers many of the large SMS service providers on the web.
Glynlyon, Inc. Learning Companies
Software Engineer 12/2004 - 06/2008
Introduced and implemented open source technologies to the companies. Provided personalized, one-on-one PHP training and consulting to superiors and co-workers while assuming various development roles among the subsidiary companies (see below).
OdysseyWare, Inc. (Glynlyon, Inc. Subsidiary)
Software Engineer
07/2005 - 06/2008Worked successfully in small teams to create and implement new, innovative ideas and solutions. Created advanced Flash applications, tools, and games. Created dynamic games, videos, and other dynamic learning activities to enhance web-based K-12 curriculum. Developed web-based tools to help curriculum authors be more efficient. Created advanced, interactive, web-based user interfaces for various online products.
Alpha Omega Publications, Inc. (Glynlyon, Inc. Subsidiary)
Software Engineer
12/2004 - 07/2005Assisted converting an inefficient ASP website to a successful, PHP-driven website (see www.aop.com and connected sites). Assisted with HTML/CSS Design. Developed many miscellaneous PHP applications to increase efficiency of the website(s).
Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda
Competitive Event Judge 04/2008 - 06/2008
Appointed judge for the following events at the 2008 Arizona FBLA State Leadership Conference: Web Site Development, Help Desk, and Public Speaking II. Appointed judge for E-Business and Web Site Development events at the 2008 FBLA National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.
OpenReaction Hosting Solutions, Inc.
Web Developer (telecommuting contractor) 07/2006 - 05/2008
Created a custom, proprietary "Network Operations Center" (N.O.C.) software to manage the operations, handle emergencies, and remotely administrate a complex, high-speed network of dedicated servers in a state of the art data center. Developed a custom, proprietary live sales chat solution with advanced features to allow sales representatives to respond to customers from their mobile phones. Create and maintain a collection of web-based tools to assist in the operations of the hosting company.
CBS Radio, Inc.
Software Engineer 08/2007 - 02/2008
Created new, innovative web-based advertising solutions to increase revenue. Developed voting system and custom Youtube player with integrated voting buttons for the "So You Think You're a Star?" singing competition. Planned and executed the development and deployment of all new radio station web sites.
MMG Enterprises, LLC (now MPI Innovations, Inc)
Web Developer (on-site contractor) 04/2006 - 12/2006
Created custom PHP back-end for subscription-based website, utilizing CC-Bill credit card processing. Developed proprietary, web-based photo gallery management software. Handled HTML/CSS design aspects of web projects.
Education and Accomplishments
Desert Hills High School
NCA Accredited Charter School, Gilbert, AZ
- Graduated one year early.
- Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Chapter President for two consecutive years.
- Honor roll student.
- Student store manager.
- Volunteer teacher for web development classes.
FBLA Achievements
Competitive Event Awards
- 1st Place, Web Site Development - 2007 National Leadership Conference, Chicago, IL
- 1st Place, Web Site Development - 2007 State Leadership Conference, Tucson, AZ
- 1st Place, Web Site Development - 2007 Central Winter Regional Conference, Yuma, AZ
- 2nd Place, Emerging Business Issues - 2007 State Leadership Conference, Tucson, AZ
Certifications
- PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer
- Zend Framework Zend Certified Engineer
- PHP 5.3 Brainbench Certified
Résumé last updated Thursday, January 6th, 2011.
