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Eric Savage Sr. Full Stack Web Developer

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Web Developer with over 16 years’ experience building custom web sites / applications, and over 5 years’ experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing Drupal (7/8/9.x) sites. Combines proficiency in all stages of development to plan and scope out new projects.

Programming style is focused on lightweight scalable solutions to client challenges as they arise, preferring custom coding to templates, contributed modules and 3rd party libraries.

Active learner, able to adapt to new technologies, environments, and methodologies with ease.

Technologies

Disciplines

Experience

Apti (Digitec) Orlando, FL (remote)

Senior Software Developer Jan 2023 - Present

  • Maintains a custom Learning Management System platform
  • Builds and deploys new features to a custom LMS, launching multiple new features each month.
  • Oversees AWS server and network management, and reduced monthly costs by 25%.
  • Built and maintains the company WordPress website (https://hiapti.com)

Sandstorm Design Chicago, IL (remote)

Senior Full Stack (LAMP) Developer Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

Full Stack (LAMP) Developer Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

  • Contributed to planning data architecture, site structure, selection of technology for current and future projects.
  • Oversaw small team web projects. Includes Sprint Planning, guidance on development, and code reviews / pull requests.
  • Built and maintained Drupal (and other CMS) sites for large scale organizations

Artistic Digital Services Evanston, IL

Designer, Developer, Administrator Jun 2012 - Jan 2017

  • Built and maintained custom web sites and web applications primarily in PHP/MySQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.
  • Created custom CMS and E-Commerce solutions for small to medium sized businesses and design firms/ad agencies.
  • Experienced in UI design and development.

Selected Projects

ACFAS (American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons)

Url https://www.acfas.org

Role Lead Front End Developer

Published May 2022

  • Front end development for a brand new Kentico site for a Podiatrists; medical association.
  • Developed a pattern library of front end styles, with an aim towards minimal CSS and broadly applicable classes and selectors.

NOW Foods (Drupal 9)

Url https://www.nowfoods.com

Role Lead Front End Developer

Published Dec 2021

  • Created a set of custom blocks, including MailChimp integration, related content carousels, and customizable WYSIWYG content
  • Utilized Drupal entity queries to generate related content (based on shared, multi-level taxonomies, and client business logic) for products and article content.
  • Wrote and organized templates, jQuery, SCSS for a single unified menu with distinct behavior based on screen size and scroll position. All code maintains WCAG accessibility standards.

National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)

Url https://statepolicies.nasbe.org

Role Lead Developer

Published Feb 2021

  • Utilizes Drupal views, relationships, and contextual filters to perform complex data queries across 10653 permutations of state / category.
  • Custom feeds architecture allows massive (18,000 rows) CSV data import.
  • Utilizes relationships between multiple content types and taxonomies to create dynamic content.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

Bachelor of Science Psychology,
minor: English 2008

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