Paul Hayes

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PAUL D. HAYES

12250 Gneiss Avenue, Downey CA, 90242  |  562-773-4960  |  paul@paul-hayes.net

 

Senior Developer skilled in creating applications and websites for business, media and educational needs

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Over 20 years of experience in web application and frontend programming
  • Able to analyze business requirements and recommend appropriate technologies
  • Strong understanding of Agile Software Development
  • Expert communication and organizational skills
  • Versatile in working on multiple simultaneous projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming:    PHP, MVC, Zend, Symfony, Laravel, HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, XML,

CSS, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Drupal & Drupal Module Development, 

WordPress plugin development, WordPress templating, React, Vue.js

Applications:               Photoshop, Illustrator, PHPStorm, SublimeText

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Warner Bros.  Fan Engagement Technology                                                        7/2020 – Present

Sr. Software Developer

Responsible for development on e-commerce platforms using Shopify and WordPress. Developed the harrypotterstore.com website. Responsible for the WB Studio Tours sites for US and UK.

 

Warner Bros.  Global Retail Experience

and Tour Technology                                                          10/2018 – 7/2020

Sr. WordPress Developer

Managed and developed the transfer of www.wbstudiotour.com from Drupal to WordPress. Created plugins and developed themes for the site. Managing the www.wbstudiotour.co.uk site. Implemented the OneTrust solution for GDRP compliance. Updated both sites to be WCAG 2.1 compliant. Currently migrating the www.wbstudiotour.co.uk site from Drupal to WordPress. Created APIs to connect with the eGalaxy ticketing system.

 

Espen Technology                                                                           7/2018 – 10/2018

IT Manager

Managed three employees and maintained the espentech.com website.

 

Walt Disney Digital Media Agency                                                        9/2017 – 6/2018

Sr. WordPress Developer

Developing and maintaining plugins, themes, websites using WordPress and Laravel.

 

Trinus Corporation (Contract)                                                    12/2016 – 8/2017

Open Source CMS Application and Developer

  • Developing and migrating sites for Los Angeles County Internal Services Dept. and the County of Los Angeles using Drupal, WordPress and Laravel.
  • Creating security procedures for hardening WordPress sites
  • Integrating WordPress sites into OpenShift, Jenkins and Cabot
  • Training staff on using WordPress and OpenShift

Prostate Cancer Foundation                                                        10/2016 – 11/2016

Senior Web Developer

Helped launched the manyvscancer.org website.

 

Metagenics                                                                                       7/2015 – 10/2016

Sr. Web & Ecommerce Developer

  • Maintain ecommerce platform using Drupal Commerce
  • Create APIs using PHP and MySQL to communicate with 3rd party vendors and our ecommerce platform.
  • Document current work procedures and suggest better alternatives to current technologies to further sell the company’s products.
  • Use Jira and Confluence to document and track issues and infrastructure information.
  • Act as point of contact with 3rd party vendors for external APIs (WePay, Avalara).
  • Assist Marketing and Customer Service with questions and concerns with the platform.
  • Guide two Web Developers to learn Drupal and understand the Drupal framework.

Interlace Media                                                                                12/2014 – 7/2015

Sr. PHP Developer

  • Develop and maintain post production application using PHP & MySQL that allows secure viewing, transcoding, watermarking and downloading of video assets for 20th Century Fox.
  • Add new features to the site using ffmpeg, PHP, jQuery and MySQL to allow quicker response and error reporting.
  • Successfully migrated site from a single web server to be used on an AWS environment, using EC2 , ELB, & S3.
  • These features allow the site to automatically scale depending on user and CPU load. The application can expand from 1 to 4 servers on its own.

Eventure Interactive                                                                         6/2014 – 11/2014

Sr. Software Developer

  • Develop websites using the Magento platform.
  • Transition a client’s 4 Ruby on Rails ecommerce sites to Magento Community edition sites.
  • Create new Magento modules using PHP & Zend to allow the client to sell their products, handle customer service requests without using a separate system and connect to their backend system for fulfillment.

Found Animals Foundation                                                              2/2013 – 6/2014

Lead Developer

  • Managed Found Animals servers using Apache, Linux, & Nginx
  • Develop and maintain such as our Microchip Registry website using PHP, jQuery, HTML and CSS. (https://microchipregistry.foundanimals.org)
  • Develop internal tools using PHP, HTML, jQuery & Symfony, along with Bootstrap that allow customer service for our customer service team. (Call Center, Microchip backtracking), which has created microchip sales profit of 900% for 2014.
  • Assisted in creating Found Animals’ first e-commerce store with Magento. (https://www.adoptandshop.org)
  • Managed internet security for the Found Animals main headquarters and our two Adopt and Shop stores.
  • Developed tools using PHP that connect different services from our partners to our company. (Automatic pet/owner content migration)
  • Manage a junior developer to create a more robust customer/pet importing tool for shelter and rescue partners via Dropbox.

NBCUniversal                                                                                       10/2000 – 12/2012

Senior Site Developer for NBCUniversal Operations and Technical Services.

  • Developed with a team of developers a Registration as a Service tool using HTML, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, Python and MongoDB along with a Identity Management tool that can handle 10 – 15 times the simultaneous traffic that the previous tool handled.
  • Developed and maintained public facing websites for NBCUniversal (over 300 sites) and its sister properties (Syfy, USA Network, NBC.com, Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios Hollywood & Orlando, Universal Home Entertainment, Universal Television, etc.) using HTML, jQuery, CSS, PHP, Zend, Perl, MySQL and Oracle & Flash.
  • Created a service using PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery & MySQL that is responsible for displaying television airtimes of shows depending on the user’s location.
  • Developed with a team of developers to refactor the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon & The Tonight Show with Jay Leno sites using PHP, MovableType, AJAX, jQuery and Zend.
  • Used Apache & Linux to manage NBCUniversal’s servers.

Vidnet.com                                                                                                                1999-2000

Vice President – Web Development

  • Managed a team of web developers to create a streaming service for social networking sites using HTML, JavaScript & Perl to show QuickTime, WindowMedia & Real video.

North Communications                                                                                           1998-1999

Media Developer – Web Development

  • Developed user interfaces for kiosks using HTML, Javascript, VBScript and ASP with a custom application called NetGain.

Education

University of Southern California – Computer Science, 1989-1993 , 1997 – 1998