Professional Resume
graham.brookins at gmail dot com • 817-909-2512 • dfw, tx usa • open to relocation
Graham Brookins
Web Application Developer
Objective
Position developing or designing web applications for a company that needs a creative, experienced professional.
Skills
I have a wide range of skills including computing, software and technology.
Primary Skills
Skill | Years | Comments |
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PHP | 7 | Used daily. High comfort level coding new applications from scratch, or modifying existing applications. Solid understanding of OOP. Experience with methodologies such as MVC and a variety of frameworks. Familiarity with many open source programs and libraries. Experience with e-commerce, enterprise software, content management systems, and web services. |
XHTML/CSS | 14 | Able to create stylish, standards compliant websites. Most comfortable coding by hand. |
Javascript/AJAX | 7 | Experience using Javascript to improve usability and style. Comfortable using the open source Prototype library, among others, DOM manipulation, JSON, and OOP. |
Testing | 7 | High comfort level designing and testing software applications for the web. |
SQL | 7 | Web application oriented knowledge of SQL. Lots of direct experience with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Access databases. |
OOP | 10 | High comfort level designing and developing object oriented applications |
Secondary Skills
Skill | Years | Comments |
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Apache | 7 | Comfortable with installation and configuration on most platforms. Basic level of troubleshooting ability. |
MySQL | 8 | Longtime MySQL poweruser |
Linux | 8 | Longtime GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems poweruser. Familiar with many desktop and server programs. |
Windows | 10 | Longtime Windows poweruser. |
Apple | 20 | Longtime Apple user. |
Flash/Actionscript | 5 | Used occasionally. Knowledge of the basics. |
UML | 7 | Can read and create at a basic level. |
Macromedia Dreamweaver | 8 | Used for rapid prototyping before I started coding my HTML by hand, about 10 years ago. |
Adobe Photoshop | 12 | Basic knowledge. |
Tertiary Skills
Skill | Years | Comments |
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Perl | 8 | Primarily used for desktop scripting, cgi programing, regular expressions, experience with perl web applications / frameworks, knowledge of most major concepts. |
Ruby | 1 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with Ruby on Rails and WATIR. |
C# / .Net | 1 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with C# web applications hosted on GNU/Linux using Apache and mod_mono / mono. |
PostgreSQL | 4 | Basic knowledge. Some personal experience with server installation and configuration |
Education
Educated, trained and certified professional in the subject of computer software development.
Training
Various training courses completed over the years
- Learn2Serve, Food Handler Certification
- eZ Systems, Creating Certified Extensions for eZ Publish Certification
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish Now - Certified Extension Advanced Developer Training in Skien, Norway
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish Now - Customization Certification
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish Now - Installation Certification
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish Now - Developer Training in Austin, TX
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish - Certified Developer Certification
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish - Developer Basics Certification
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish - Advanced Training in Vancouver, Canada
- eZ Systems, eZ Publish - Advanced Partner Training in Washington, DC
- CompTIA, Network+ Certification
- CompTIA, A+ Certification
- Bruce Eckel, Thinking in Java, OO Training
General Studies
- 1999 : UAA - University of Alaska, Anchorage
- 1999 : Save High School, Anchorage, Alaska
- 1996 - 1998 : Diamond High School, Anchorage, Alaska
- 1986 - 1996 : Aboot Loop Christian School, Anchorage, Alaska
Source Code

I have written, developed and published a large amount of source code in my career. Feel free to review it, make use of it and suggest improvements.
GitHub: http://github.com/brookinsconsulting
Projects: http://projects.ez.no/users/community/brookins_consulting
Portfolio: http://grahambrookins.com/Portfolio
Business: http://brookinsconsulting.com
eZcommunity2 / Procurement: http://ezcommunity.net
eZregion: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezregion
eZGroupEventCalendar2 / eZCalendar2 / eZVote: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ezcommunity
Work Experience
Professional Work Experience
02/2001 - Present | Brookins Consulting | Dallas, Texas |
Lead Web Application Designer/Developer | ||
At Brookins Consulting I had the opportunity to play a variety of major roles in the development of a broad range of web projects. My duties included ...
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04/2006 - 06/2006 | eSession.com, LTD | Austin, Texas |
Lead Software Engineer | ||
Web application development, team lead, technical administration, quality assurance, project management, PHP5 / MySQL5, Action Script programming, existing software maintenance, responsible for code review of back end components, planing, implementing, change management, quality assurance, project planning. RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Administration managing Backup, software selection and installation and management DNS, Apache, MySQL, SVN, ACL, NFS, Firewall and software build environment development. |
10/2008 - 11/2008 | Verizon Business | Dallas, Texas |
Web Application Developer | ||
Web application development team’s technical lead, development and quality assurance. Utilizing PHP5, MySQL5, HTML4, Javascript, Apache2, SVN, ACL, Backup automation, WAMP server installation configuration and web application development expertise. Executed existing software code review, updates and improvements both functional and aesthetic. The goal to upgrade all WAMP dependencies and identify / resolve any bugs or functionality loss as a result of the upgrades. Including testing fully all aspects of the surrounding intranet platform. Customer facility required an upgrade of their internal web server and web applications. |
07/2006 - 08/2006 | IBM | Austin, Texas |
Web Developer | ||
Create and maintain external customer support web sites for System p5 hardware and software. Create and maintain internal support web sites for support representatives and technical analysts. Assisting the web architect in maintaining client and w3 standards on all projects by participating in UI reviews during the design process, and by testing/editing web applications during various stages of development. Working with development groups across multiple groups within the organization. Documenting technical subjects clearly and concisely to support both external and internal support sites or tools. Use of AIX, XHTML, CSS, W3 (internal and external web standards), XML, IBM System p servers. |
06/1999 - 02/2001 | 7x Group, LLC | Anchorage, Alaska |
Lead Web Application Developer | ||
Lead developer, mentor new employees, company protected information security. Design, develop and release object oriented web applications. Active management of development via cvs with multiple developers as teams and individually. Document breakdowns, create and implement resolutions. Manage task time estimates, manage dependencies, work flows. Programmer, problem solving for multiple internal and external projects. |
11/1998 - 04/1999 | Internet Alaska, Inc. | Anchorage, Alaska |
Technical Support Representative and Network Monitor | ||
Maintain call wait time below 400 seconds. Discover, recognize general / specific network problems affecting dial-up / dedicated user's connectivity problems. Responsible for development of standardized Bash profile. Responsible for development of their primary web based support site, support.alaska.net. |
Salary Requirements
Open to telecommuting, remote projects and contract opportunities.
- Full Time: $80,000 per year
- Contract: $45 - $75 per hour
Professional References
Additional references available upon request. See my customer's written recommendations.
Matt Sweetman
blueWIRE Technologies, LLC
President
Phone: 907-339-9119
Email: info@bluewiretek.com
Contact
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Southwest
Oregon, 97531
Phone
1-817-909-2512
Contact Form
Portfolio
My personal and professional portfolio of past website application development projects.