Don Wilson

4613 Bellcrest McKinney, TX 75070 [ 972-658-8339 ]

OBJECTIVE

Solve problematic development-based issues. Provide intellect and experience to a growing business. Encourage strong quality-based PHP coding and a highly structured MySQL environment. Provide forethought to future challenges that a business might have in regards to competition, technology, and trends.

SUMMARY

• Experienced PHP developer (OOP, cURL, et al) of 6+ years
• MySQL database design and optimization, 4+ years
• Extremely quick JPG -> XHTML/CSS conversion
• Abundant experience with managing sites with large amounts of traffic
• Setup and deploy of CentOS-based servers (Apache, PHP, MySQL)
• Knowledge and leadership in the web development arena
• Strong ties to adaptation to new and challenging business climates

EXPERIENCE

Client March, 2008

Scraping website for location-based information

I was asked to provide a spider that will scrape a retail search engine and record results based on geographic locality. Program presented was under 200 lines of code.

ProfileGoodies.com August, 2006 – July, 2007

Development, Design, Marketing, Server Admin

Built from scratch, the website housed hundreds of thousands of images, CSS styling, and other assorted items for MySpace profiles. Eventually growing to over 15,000 active daily visitors, I sold the site to a buyer in order to move on to other projects.

Client (BlingBoo.com, et al) October, 2006 – November, 2006

Development, Database management, Server Admin

I provided the facelift to three websites own by a client, as well as implementing several new additions to their overall product. Design improvements included JPG to XHTML/CSS exportation. Development included custom PHP programs, MySQL database design and implementation, and other areas of work.

ProfileMix.com January, 2006 – April, 2006

Development, Marketing, Server Admin

I co-owned the site and provided the complete development of the site. We housed thousands of assets to users and I presented numerous unique ideas into the market that are still used today. The site was sold within four months of being conceived.

Guzzlefish.com March, 2004 – April, 2004

Development, Server Admin

I provided necessary upkeep to existing site software after previous partner left. I provided a custom program that pulled music/movie information from our data warehouse provider and automatically synced with our database. I had the fortune of being part of the site when it was featured in a full page story in the New York Times.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business

• Degree in Business Computer Information Systems
• University of North Texas, Denton, TX
• Currently attending

I am currently taking a broad range of business and information system-related courses. I believe that I’ve learned far more than a college could instruct me in regard to the web development arena, so I’ve decided to focus more on the business aspect of the internet and computers-related fields.

Associate of Arts

• Collin County Community College, Plano, TX
• Graduated: December, 2007

I attended several computer-related courses amongst finishing core requirements.

High School

• McKinney High School, McKinney, TX
• Graduated: May, 2004

I was involved with Web Development courses in years 2000-2001 and 2003-2004. Due to my high level of knowledge and experience, I was the go-to guy, even to both teachers, when questions of unsolvable questions arose.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I’ve always been an entrepreneur; I live and breathe the life of one every day and I never tire from it. I’ve been part of numerous business deals in the past, both in conception, development, implementation, as well as selling off to a buyer. I’ve worked on my own, hired by countless clients, as well as dealt with multiple partners on numerous occasions. I work strong in a team (if not better) and can always bring the energy required to a project to help achieve its highest potential. I hope to gain better knowledge in website optimization, both in the area of database structure and PHP cache efficiency, as well as sub-version and IDE development.

OTHER

• Work has been featured in New York Times (Technology, Feb 26, 2004) and subsequent newspapers.
• Sold several self-owned, for profit websites to numerous buyers. I learned to deal with escrow and wire transfers, as well as managing several bidders at once.
• All education fees have been paid by my self. I have always been self sufficient and a strong entrepreneur and business man.
• I am one in a very short list of students who have a substantially larger experience record than education, and I take more pride in that than anything else.