Richard Knop

November 2011 » Present

PHP Developer

Saffron Digital

I am working on SOA for mobile media applications (mostly Android smartphone apps for clients such as HTC).

My main responsibility is developing, testing and maintaining RESTful web services. I am using Zend Framework, PHP 5.3 and MySQL relational database to implement the APIs.

I am using Test-driven development (TDD) and writing unit test coverage for all models and APIs. Git is used as version control system.

Other technologies used include Memcached, XML, HTML, CSS, FreeBSD, VMWare, JIRA etc.

August 2011 » November 2011 (4 months)

Senior Programmer

Accenture

I worked on a project for a major telco company to integrate an old legacy system with a new generation CRM system (NGCRM).

I used JDeveloper to create ABC (Application Business Connector) services that would act as an interface between a legacy system and EBS (Enterprise Business Service).

Involved technologies were XML, XSD, XSLT, SOAP, BPEL.

May 2010 » June 2011 (1 year 2 months)

Web Programmer

BE-soft

Main part of the project I worked on was to develop an e-learning web portal (elearning.besoft.sk) which would allow employees to complete occupational safety and fire protection courses required by law in their web browser.

It is being used by major companies in Slovakia such as T-Systems. The e-learning application also needed to be integrated with a legacy CRM system (eklient.besoft.sk) which was the second part of the project.

My main responsibility was for the first part of the project, the e-learning portal. However, I also worked on some extra functionality for the legacy CRM system and on updating and maintaining older company websites.

Involved technologies were Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery and SVN for version control.

April 2008 – April 2010 (2 years)

Web Developer

Freelance

I have worked on multiple smaller websites (cutting PSDs to HTML/CSS templates, Wordpress blogs, PHP scripts) and notably also on one larger social networking website for amateur models (hunnyhive.com).

I have developed this social network from scratch using rigorously tested and reliable Zend Framework.

I have also been working on an off on my own content management system which has provided me up to this day with lots of high quality reusable code.

Involved technologies were Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and jQuery.