Brian DiChiara

20 S Forty Road, Alabaster, AL 35007
http://www.briandichiara.com
205.910.7676
me@briandichiara.com

SUMMARY

More than 8 years experience in web/graphic design and web application development. Once self-employed, my current goal is to work with an innovative company where I can use my programming skills and concepts to write great web applications.

Programming Languages (version)

I primarily program in OOP PHP and have the most experience with this language. In March of 2009, I began using CodeIgniter as my MVC Framework of choice, although I have a small amount of experience using Symfony. I have about 1.5 years experience using ASP.NET (VB & C#). My primary database experience has been with MySQL, although I have about 1 year's worth of experience with SQL. I write standards compliant XHTML/CSS, and have been working with Javascript my entire career as a developer adding 3 years of jQuery experience. Most recently gaining experience with mobile web application development and Facebook application development. I am comfortable working on Windows, Mac or Linux OS, and am highly familiar with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office.

PORTFOLIO

Chick-fil-A (Houston Road)

• Allows users to purchase tickets to a screening of the Chick-fil-A Leadercast Event on May 7, 2010.
• Responsibilities: Built entire site within short time-frame. Had 3 days to get ticket system up and running. Site uses Google Checkout to handle transactions.

Hibbett Sports

• Sporting goods company with over 750 stores in 24 states.
• Responsibilities: Varies additions/revisions to website (News/Events/What's New), complete design of mobile site, Facebook application development including a custom video application which allows for friend selection and encourages sharing with other friends.

Mark’s Outdoor Sports

• Used gun search tool, lake reports and scope finder for local outdoor sports company.
• Project Details: Setup system and administration panel for adding/managing inventory. Users can create a “unique finder” that will email them whenever their selected item has been added in the product inventory.

Trussville Police Department

• Local police department/law enforcement in Trussville, AL.
• Responsibilities: Entire site design and functionality, including full content management and user submitted forms.

SportsEvents Magazine (Covey Communications)

• Helping planners of amateur sporting events and competitions be more effective, informed and successful with their events.
• Responsibilities: Entire site design and functionality, including full content management, advertisement management, and many user submitted email forms.

Hoover Chamber of Commerce

• Providing services to the Hoover community, member businesses, visitors and prospective residents by promoting a healthy business environment and featuring great restaurants, lodging facilities, sporting events, and vacation areas.
• Responsibilities: Entire site design and functionality, including full content management, advertisement management, and member directory management.

First Industrial Realty Trust

• An established leader in providing real estate solutions for every stage of the industrial supply chain.
• Responsibilities: Site backend/structure, majority of Javascript/AJAX, some CSS, Live Maps API integration, and user submitted forms.

HealthSpring of Alabama

• Project Details: To setup a communications tool and inventory application to streamline communication between marketing department staff and printing source.

Moody Soccer Club

• Local soccer organization in Moody, AL.
• Responsibilities: Entire site design and functionality, including full content management, as well as an instant communication tool that sends text messages and voice calls allowing the organization to notify subscribers about important announcements and schedule changes.

JSValidate

• A client side form validator that utilizes aspects of prototype and scriptaculous to bring you a simple to execute, non-intrusive javascript form validator.
• Project Details: Came up with concept and all script programming/testing. Also designed website and forms.

StoneCMS

• Website and web application content management system designed with built in search engine optimization, easy to use interface and a ton of features.
• Project Details: 3 years in the making, this system has been implemented on about a dozen websites including a corporate intranet site. Please contact me for a demo login.

EMPLOYMENT

Web Developer

02/2009 - Present
Diamond Studios

Responsible for website and web application development, following the SDLC. Working with PHP/CodeIgniter and MySQL as well as CSS/XHTML/Javascript/jQuery to developer client websites and web applications. Largest project (responsible for 80% of code) is online medical/health profile to streamline process of visits between patients and their doctors, reducing necessary forms to be filled out as well as simplify the information presented to physician and staff. Several other projects include mobile web application development, content management systems and Facebook application development.

ASP.NET Developer Intern

01/2009 - 05/2009
ProAssurance

Completed various portions of company external website, proassurance.com. Working with SQL and ASP.NET C# to create a file upload utility, user survey, and helped developers debug several CSS/Javascript issues throughout the site.

Designer/Developer/Owner

04/2008 – 02/2009
Sole Pixel

Self employed, completing freelance work on a contract basis. Partial work history detailed above in portfolio.

Web Developer

01/2007 – 04/2008
Alabama Telco Credit Union

Hired as an employee after working 3 months on contract with Telco; Intro project was to completely remodel Intranet site using PHP and MySQL. I designed and coded entire Intranet application, including a content management system, allowing company employees easy access to important everyday information, documents, forms, procedures, and training materials. Content manager was restricted by username/password as well as specific permissions to certain areas. Successfully integrated with LDAP/Active Directory; Other aspects of Intranet include online form submissions, polls, charity donation tracker, AJAX enabled goals demonstration, user history tracking, database search tool, DHTML flyout menus, and javascript enabled PDF reports to calculate expenses and other financials.

Second major project was to redesign Internet website using ASP.NET (VB) 2.0/MySQL; I was also designed this from Photoshop to XHTML with direction from Marketing. Website is database driven, allowing the content to be searchable and managed through a CMS admin system available strictly on intranet site. The site features online application requests, an amazing drop-down navigation tool, the occasional flash promotion on the homepage, and a repossessions photo gallery.

Other projects include designing a mockup for new home banking platform interface, a sales number tracking tool, employee dashboard, training and online testing tracking, and a Halloween contest voting system.

Designer/Web Developer

08/2005 – 08/2006
High Ground Solutions, Inc.

Began High Ground as a graphic designer; Solely responsible for creating corporate marketing materials from concept to completion; Including flash presentations, posters, flyers, brochures, signage, logos, and email newsletters. Major projects included 11x8.5 Hanging Wall Calendars, customized for several public and private schools and churches; Tri-fold brochures for clients; and full size fold-out brochures for organization.

Position changed once the development of their company website began. Handled design from start to finish using Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Admin for site included managing content, user email accounts and auto-forwarders, MySQL databases, and an online calendar creation tool.

Additionally, began the development of two web based products known as SchoolCast and TestPoint using PHP/MySQL; includes layout, design, programming and graphical elements.

Graphic/Web Design Intern

11/2004 - 08/2005
al.com

Primary responsibilities were to design creative elements for banners, web ads, and splash pages, while following strict style guidelines for fast load time, small file size and versatility among common browsers. Designing involved work in Photoshop, Flash/Actionscript, and HTML/programming. Also provided creative copy for advertising purposes and occasionally created websites and splash pages using HTML/PHP.

EDUCATION

Westwood College of Technology (Online)

01/2004 – 12/2005
Denver, Colorado

Graphic Design Major - Completed all but three courses in the Graphic Design curriculum!