Brian Jonathan Christianson

Summary

  • Experienced full stack developer, specializing on site and app development in PHP and C#
  • Team and quality motivated
  • Areas of special interest include Standards and Accessibility

Skills

Practices

  • Object Oriented Design
  • Test Driven Development
  • Agile Development
  • Web Accessibility

Languages

Advanced

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS (including SASS)
  • Javascript (including jQuery, Bootstrap, React, and AJAX)

Intermediate

  • C#
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Java

Beginner

  • Python

Experience

  • Develop custom features for client Learning Management System (LMS)
  • Debug and improve existing features of the LMS
  • Skills Used: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Moodle, PostgreSQL Git, JIRA, Confluence, Apache
  • Develop new features for company’s Moodle-based Learning Management System (LMS)
  • Debug and improve existing features of the LMS
  • Major project included being the primary developer of an extendable plugin for resolving user data conflicts
  • Independent study project providing Web Accessibility guidelines for use by company staff
  • Skills Used: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Moodle, MySQL, Software as a Service, Git, JIRA, Confluence, Apache
  • Participate in the development of web applications to meet the needs of various clients
  • Projects included the use of various front and back end technologies
  • Significant projects included creating a secure document repository, enhancing company time-tracking software, and development of government agency cost reimbursement platform
  • Skills Used: C#, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, React, SQL, Agile Development, Test Driven Development
  • Maintain and develop new features for company website and intranet • Develop new templates for email campaigns
  • Produce automated reports from database
  • Troubleshoot and fix website and intranet bugs
  • Respond to employee produced work tickets in a timely manner
  • Skills Used: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, MySQL, Apache
  • Maintain and implement changes to Sunbear Squad website
  • Administrate Sunbear Blog Squad weblog
  • Recruit appropriate websites for participation in reciprocal links exchange
  • Skills Used: HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Apache .htaccess, WordPress Development
  • Temporary contract position
  • Make update to McNair Scholarship Program website
  • Design and implement interactive online photo album
  • Skills Used: HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS

Education

B.S. Computer Science

Honors Program
Iowa State University, Ames, IA