Evan Howell
Developer
Profile
Subtitle
Evan Howell
Developer
Resume
Resume
Education
University Of Houston
B.S. Computer Science- GPA 3.5
2019
St. Edward's University
Business Admin
2004-2007
Experience
Developer Network Dawn
Austin, Texas
2009-2022
Develop and maintain web solutions for Realtors, Doctors,
Dentists, Non-profits, Municipal Districts, E-Commerce,
Construction and more. Created LAMP CRUD stack for gathering
pre/post op data from stem cell procedures. Managed
international teams for development and QA. Coordinated with
orthopedic physicians to develop custom web solutions. Currently
maintain all web hosting and development for small to mid-size
companies.
Accomplishments
- Web Development with emphasis on project
management. - Presented new various technologies including streaming
surgeries, and university/commercial level training video
archives.
Linux Admin, Hostgator
Houston, Texas
March 2013- July 2015
Diagnose, Troubleshoot, and Solve- web related issues with
emphasis on Linux/cPanel/WHM on shared and dedicated
hosting environments. Extensive web hosting experience with
these platforms. Knowledge of dns, http, exim, .htaccess,
apache, SSH, WHM/cPanel, access logs, CentOS and some
proficiency in most major front end languages. Additionally
operating within strict company policy to securely and effectively
solve customer issues. Fixing code on web platforms-
WordPress, Magento, etc. and diagnosing or solving approx.
80-130 issues per day from backend to frontend.
Accomplishments
- Team leader within the second month of being on the
floor. - First in hiring class to receive cross training in policy, root
access, and billing. - Consistently ranked #1 out of #224 Employee’s.
- Built a Training Portal for new hire Employees at the
commendation of immediate Supervisor(s).
Developer, US Gold Bureau
Austin, Texas
Jan 2012- Aug -2013
Maintain Rackspace Cloud servers (CentOS 5&6) and Cloud
Sites on the backend. Maintain 6+ websites in Drupal and
WordPress on LAMP stack. Research and develop new tools for
directly impacting lead generation. Landing pages, creative and
cross browser popups with strong emphasis on metrics and
analytics. Create webforms and front end features like
cross-browser functional popups. Ping XML data via SOAP to
receive real time precious metal prices and display live product
prices and charts. Present weekly meetings on Sales and ROI of
E-commerce websites. Lead harvesting via Cisco/Marchex/Web
forms into master database for outbound sales. Average
Ecommerce Volume of 1MM+/month
Accomplishments
- Researched and implemented CDN to save bandwidth
cost, increase load speed by 20% and substantially
reduce spam/bots/hacks. - Site UI Redesign to have featured products on
Homepage as well as implementing features like a static
page bar for gold prices as well as popup/forms were
directly responsible for 500k+ deals.
Co-managed 80k/mo. Adwords budget and remarketing
boosting sales up to 50%. - Programmed office intranet with relational spreadsheets
for Sales Pipeline, company chat, and consolidating
product pricing sheets that saved management 2-3 hours
daily. - Managed high load servers in a load balanced
configuration with separate database server. Customized
swap space and modules to optimize performance
Programming Skills
Some Extra Skills
Projects
UE4
Calculus Video Learning
UE4
Language Learning
Raspberry Pi
Built Pi Cluster computer running MPI
Quant
Implement various trading algorithms techniques
Leadership
ACM- Vice President
SGA – CST Senator
Mensa – Web Developer
Language Skills
Software and Tools
EC2 | Heroku | DigitalOcean
Trello | Cpanel | Magento | UE4 |
WP/Joomla/Drupal | Photoshop |
Docker| Balsamiq | Visual Studio
Python XY | Netbeans/Eclipse
Endeavors And Certs
Google Adwords Certified Startup Engineering
Coursera on full stack startup development AWS/Node JS Crowdfunding.
Languages
Basic Spanish | Japanese | Thai | Chinese
Music
Classical Guitar | Piano Composer | Ukulele
Art Welding
TIG/GMAW | Oxy-Acetylene | Blacksmithing
Business
Memberships
Mensa (Wais III IQ 142) | Houston Chess Federation | NAR
Real Estate Broker
TREC (2011-)
Typing
