Gerald Bullard Jr

Sr Developer | gerald.bullard@gmail.com

ABOUT

I'm Sr Web Developer with almost 18 years of professional experience. My main area of expertise is in PHP/MySQL building backend admin systems for any size company. Some of my major projects have included things like a Backorder Management system for BigCommerce that communicates via API, a Voluntary Benefit Portal that imports outside enrollers from a separate WordPress installation then tracks user enrollment and profitability in real time and one of the most robust (Free) Retirement Calculators on the market today.

I enjoy writing and maintaining systems like CMS, Ecommerce Stores and Web Portals as well as WordPress based projects with very complex needs. The more challenging and complex the system, the more I seem to enjoy the work.

With a strong talent for Art & Design at a young age I have been known to blue print, design and style websites at a professional level when needed. You can view some of my work below in screenshots or live demos.

In recent years my current employer has worked with me to develop a much more leadership driven role that allows me to help set standards for new dev hires, help produce more SOP style documentation for long term use within the company, and allows me to be more involved in defining the scope of new projects that involve more complex feature-sets. The guidance and consistent encouragement, along with a great review process, has been more beneficial to my career than I can explain in mere words.

WORK

Elyk Innovation, Inc.
PHP Lead/Sr Developer

I am a full stack Web Developer in charge of some of the companies most complex projects mostly in the Ecommerce industry. I help train incoming developers on the systems and processes we use here at ELYK Innovation. I sit in on most every kickoff meeting with clients to help better devise a development approach before handing the project off to the dev responsible for it's completion. I spend time daily assisting other developers with direction, solving blockers and keeping my own builds moving while working with our leader to keep pace with best practice and emergency repairs to sites for some of our most valuable clients. With over 5 years of employment here it's safe to say I have found a very comfortable and satisfying home for my efforts!

Jun 2015 – Present

Loaded Commerce, LLC.
Development Manager

Manage daily progress of development flow. Assign design/bug tasks to development personnel. Assist in the adoption and integration of new technologies and methodologies under the direction of then current CTO Michael S. Logsdon.

Apr 2013 – May 2015

Loaded Commerce, LLC.
Developer

Lead developer in charge of integration of multiple new features and modules into the upgrade of the platform from 6.4 to 6.5. Assisted in the feature set needed for 6.5 version of the platform. Helped in resolving existing bugs and issues in the platform previous to and during the upgrade of the platform at that time.

Nov 2011 – Feb 2014

Short Sale Specialists Network
Lead Developer

Assisted in the design and implementation of methods and code to support the mining of Real Estate leads for a country wide lead generation service to Short Sale Subscribers. Created and configured multiple WordPress blog sites for SEO purposes. Created and customized Ecommerce/CMS platform for Short Sale Symposium website.

Feb 2011 – Oct 2011

ContributionCentral
Owner/Founder

ContributionCentral was a self run company that specialized in osCommerce based Ecommerce forks with an emphasis on additions or contributions to the core code of platforms like osCommerce, CRE Loaded, ZenCart, osCMax, True Loaded and others. The sites mainstay was customizations and added value features either contributed by the community and enhanced or created out of a need for functionality that did not exist.

Feb 2007 – Feb 2011

WebDomains4U
Technical Support

Assisted the Owner/Founder of a small web hosting company and domain reseller with technical support issues and Level 1 & 2 issues on a daily basis via support ticket system, online chat and telephone.

May 2003 – Jan 2007


SKILLS/STRENGTHS

PHP/MySQL


JavaScript/jQuery


Wordpress


HTML/CSS


JSON


API


CodeIgniter


Ecommerce


Photoshop



PORTFOLIO

Tabmin Blaze Edition

This project was a self initiated rewrite of a proprietary in-house system written many years ago for my current employer to build custom web portal admin interfaces. This rewrite served two main purposes for over 1.5 years of my spare time. One, it gave me a full platform understanding of the Tabmin system. Two, it gave Elyk Innovation a much more future proof, more modular and mobile responsive platform based on the in-house goto system for custom works. This along with the ease-of-use of the Bootstrap styling methodology gives Tabmin Blaze Edition a new life going forward. Contact me for admin access to the demo.


Retirement Calculator

This Retirement Calculator was developed to allow some of the most powerful financial calculations based on an experts' years of experience from a very complex Excel Spreadsheet to perform the calculations converted to a web-based interactive form input based live calculator that redraws the charts on each individual input change by the end user. This project also had the ability to save and recall user specific results with an email address. To see it in action go here.


WordPress Ajax Loading Accordions

These two pages for the Florida Education Association were built using a very complex import (PHP/CSV) script to populate cross-related data into multiple Advanced Custom Fields and WordPress Taxonomies to produce an Ajax Loading Accordion-Based page for each grouping. You can see each page in action by clicking the links to the two pages below.
Local Unions
Service Units

Also check out the Ajax Driven
Join Your Union page.


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Voluntary Benefits Portal

More Details/Screenshots Soon.




CONTACT

Email:
gerald.bullard@gmail.com

Adress:
Ruskin, FL
USA

Phone:
(904) 945-0456

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