DENNIS SLADE JR.
208 West 140th Street #3
New York, NY  10030
USA

Mobile: +1/917-553-2812
E-mail: DennisSladeJr@gmail.com
URL:    http://DennisSlade.com/hire-me


THIS IS NOT YOUR RESUME.
WHAT IS IT EXACTLY?
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The following is an exhaustive list of my duties and
accomplishments from my 17-month stint at Ascentive LLC
(Philadelphia, PA, February 2006 to August 2007).  I thought
it might be helpful to post this information in one document
as it has been partitioned throughout my multiple resumes.


JOB TITLE
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Senior Web Developer.  I was also de-facto Team Leader/
Manager: although that never made it into my job title,
itŐs fairly obvious from the duties outlined below.


JOB DUTIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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GENERAL

* Developed and maintained code for all front and back
  office systems.  Worked directly with all departments in the
  company (CEO & Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer
  Service/Support, Systems Admin/QA, and HR), analyzing
  business requirements and delivering subsequent systems
  implementations.

  (The back office system is used daily by all 15+ employees. 
  The front office system is accessed weekly by partner
  affiliates and resellers, daily by hundreds of ordering
  customers, and continuously by 100K+ retail users of the
  company's software.)

TEAM/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

* Led weekly team meetings.  Maintained pipeline document
  used by CEO to track the completion status of all projects. 
  Installed third-party applications to improve team
  efficiency, including open-source wiki (PmWiki) and bug
  tracking (Mantis) systems.  Trained, mentored and supervised
  team members.

* Screened web developer candidates' resumes and background
  questionnaires.  Performed detailed code reviews of
  candidates' programming projects.  Participated in
  face-to-face candidate interviews.  Created weighted
  checklists to standardize the analysis of the questionnaires
  and programming projects.

* Trained and mentored offshore (Indian) team members. 
  Managed offshore development through weekly code reviews,
  biweekly IM chats, and daily emails.  Wrote offshore
  development document emphasizing class design, commenting,
  and code style guidelines.  Integrated submodules completed
  offshore into the in-house source code repository.

* Created and implemented team standards for class design,
  object use, and commenting styles.  Wrote 50+ page
  application development guide as both Word and wiki-based
  documents. 
  
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS/DESIGN

* Increased company revenues through the design and
  implementation of several systems: 

  - Daily, automated renewal notifications.  Customers are
    emailed reminders at database-specified times depending on
    when their individual subscriptions are set to expire.

  - System monitor which, when coupled with a third-party
    URL checking service, significantly decreased outage times
    of the online store.

  - Chargeback tool which enabled much quicker responses to
    incoming chargeback requests, significantly reducing
    banking fees.

  - An email opt-out application, which greatly reduced
    customer disputes and legal complaints.

* Solved or made significant contributions to these important
  issues:

  - Facilitating company-wide PCI compliance

  - Guaranteeing delivery of automated emails to customers

  - Creating specifications for data exchange with partners
    and third-party vendors

  - Internationalizing the company's web-based customer tools.

* Designed and/or implemented these tracking systems:

  - Consolidated analytics/statistical reports, for the
    performance of business partners

  - Campaign expense tracker, for costs related to sales
    campaigns and partner management

  - Human resources, for employees' time-off requests and
    timesheet entries

  - Public relations, for press mentions and customer
    testimonials

* Worked on all aspects of the company's online ordering
  process including credit card transaction processing
  (Authorize.net), renewal ordering, and internationalization.
  Extensive background in AVS verification (US and
  international), CVV codes, and void transactions.

PROGRAMMING

* Managed huge object-oriented code base of 2000+ source
  files covering three major web applications and dozens of
  submodules.  Maintained code developed by 10 programmers
  over an 8 year period.

* Extensive use of MySQL in development and production
  environments.  Worked with hundreds of tables, some with
  millions of rows and gigabytes of data. MySQL
  troubleshooting on issues relating to non-indexed columns,
  overuse of JOIN clauses, maximum connections limits, and
  UTF-8 internationalization.  Regularly designed complex
  MySQL queries.

* Worked daily in a multi-OS environment (Red Hat Linux,
  Windows XP, Mac OS), with extensive use of command line Unix
  tools.  Installed and maintained Linux servers.  Wrote batch
  scripts and edited cron job schedules.  Maintained the
  company-wide DNS server, and the development team's CVS
  repository.

* Wrote detailed project specifications from both the
  business and technical perspectives.  Created and executed
  exhaustive system test suites for completed projects.

* When required, provided one-on-one technical support for
  all employees, including the CEO.