Nelson J.

## BIO <font face="tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica" size= "2"> **Architect / Senior Developer / Server Administrator** **LAMP and Open Source technologies**</font> <font face="tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica" size= "2">**Profile** Results-oriented lead architect with a focus on delivering high-quality code and products in high traffic environments. Enthusiastic about building new products and services. Proven leadership ability; capable of keeping a team focused on the tasks and deadlines at hand. Solves immediate crises with solutions that will fit for the long-term. Eleven years of experience in the Internet industry, specializes in LAMP technologies. Hands-on experience with all aspects of building large-scale, high-availability applications — application development, frameworks, data interchange, security, online commerce, database administration, replication, and optimization, server administration, open source software, and quality assurance. Stays up to date with best practices.</font> <font face="tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica" size= "2">**Technical Skills** PHP, MySQL, Apache, Lighttpd, Linux, IPTables, CheckPoint 4.1 and NG, Perl, Bash, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XML-RPC, Ajax, ActionScript, Mod\_Rewrite, Regular Expressions, Apache Bench (AB), HTTP\_Load, ProFTPd, qMail, SendMail, Smarty, WordPress, Flash, Photoshop, CorelDraw, SEO, Google AdSense and AdWords, Google Analytics. Prior experience with C, C++, XSL, XSLT, Delphi, Access, and ASP.</font> <font face="tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica" size= "2">**Last Professional Experience** October 2005 - Present **Server Administration, Web development** [login to view URL], São Paulo, Brazil Ensure availability for web servers handling over 2 million pages and 1 million unique visitors per month, and over 70+ GB of traffic per month.</font> * Implement e-commerce systems including shopping cart applications in PHP and MySQL, integrate payment gateways, perform security audits. * Working towards hosting our web services and content. * Designing hot failover between managed hosting and local office servers. * Perform load testing with tools like HTTP_Load and AB (Apache Bench). * <font face="tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica" size= "2">Participate in senior management team.</font> * Cut CPU utilization on web servers by adding class autoloading within existing code. * Identified strategies for scaling applications based on hardware needs, caching schemes, database expansion and optimization, and application tuning. * Planned site architecture changes and URL schema responsible for increasing Google search index penetration. * Developed promotion code and tracking system for site referrals and conversions. * Continue to update and migrate legacy code and databases into new standards. ## Area of Expertise CorelDraw Photoshop Acrobat Flex Flash Linux Apache Lighttpd Bash PHP Perl MySQL Delphi JavaScript HTML CSS Ajax OOP