BRIAN VEVERKA

ABOUT ME

2225 BISPHAM RD SARASOTA FL 34233

BRIAN@BRIANVEVERKA.COM (941) 227-4861

I would like to secure a position in IT, Development, or support staff where I may utilize my extensive background in computer technology. I pride myself on my ability to learn on my feet, as well as absorb information and apply it to real-world situations. I have decades of experience in computer hardware, software and programming, which grants me the ability to think and solve problems logically and quickly.

EXPERIENCE
Freelance Programming and Web Design
May 2008 Present

Software Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Eclipse MS Office Suite SQLYog, Filezilla, Textpad Postal Soft/BCC Software Languages/Scripting PHP HTML/XHTML AJAX jQuery / mootools SQL CSS JavaScript XML/XSL Visual Basic Java API/REST Programming Frameworks/CMS Kohana WordPress Joomla Drupal Databases MySQL Postgress MSSQL Access OSes Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Etc) Windows Vista/XP/7/Server (Any flavor) Web/App Servers Apache/IIS Tomcat/Resin WebSphere

Currently freelance coding for several companies. Ground-up projects are done using the latest LAMP (PHP/MySQL) and JavaScript frameworks and libraries. Much of the contract work is troubleshooting broken sites and implementing solutions for clients that expect results in hours, not days. Much of the independent work I get is from local business, so it is mainly CMS template and content generation, but I can provide samples of code from some of the more complex projects with the consent of the owners.
Partial Portfolio http://www.brianveverka.com/portfolio.

Lead Web Development, Remote Helpdesk

Hypercube Technologies, Sarasota Florida

April 2006 May 2008

Responsible for incoming calls from existing clients, troubleshooting hardware and software issues, and in most cases repairing the issue remotely. Assisted in creation of advertising and marketing material as well as design and consultation. Responsible for day to day client domain administration and maintenance as well as webmaster duties for the sites under the Hypercube umbrella. Responsibilities also included initial client contact, and follow up for web work. Development was mostly LAMP with a bit of flash work. .

List Management, Data coordinator

Colorama Mail and Print services, Sarasota Florida

June 2001 April 2006

Responsible for list acquisition, client house database consultation and retrieval, house list maintenance, cleansing of client supplied and outside source data, postal presorting, and print merging to high speed equipment. Participated in every aspect of the direct marketing cycle. Duties included customer contact, job quoting and planning, design and layout of print material, digital duplicating, customer targeting and neighborhood marketing, mailing, and delivery to the post office.

Senior Programmer, Senior Software Engineer

ChoicePoint Public Records International, Sarasota, Florida

June 1996 July 2000

Participated in all aspects of website development, including back end connections to farms of database and web servers. Made purchase recommendations for hardware/software and carried out implementation of approved systems. Successfully carried out the integration of

international search capability into ChoicePoints legacy search system, as well as development of techniques and algorithms for searching non-English databases for information. Worked with my team to develop a front-end web interface for law enforcement and government clients to search the data using our custom engine. Public Records Online , Sarasota Florida Designed and created a website to search public record data. Oversaw all aspects of site development, including backend databases, redundancy, and public facing web servers. Acted as a technical liaison between QA and development. Developed a web based retrieval tool containing billions of records. Personally wrote an intelligent report building tool which gathered and related information from multiple sets of data across sparse data, building a profile on an individual. This report both became one of the industrys standard reports and generated over a million reports in its first year of its use.

Data Processor, Database Management

Advanced Mail Concepts, Sarasota Florida Page and Associates Direct Marketing, Sarasota Florida

December 1992 June 1996

Responsible for customer-supplied data, as well as list services from sister company. Provided list generation, mail piece design, piece addressing, and mailing. Each database was cleansed, sorted, processed and shipped via qualified mail streams.

ACTIVITIES & AWARDS

Outstanding Achievements: 1) Developed a system of matching VINs to claims, accident reports and previous owners. 2) Lead developer of profiling and investigation system that was accessed by law enforcement, government, and private investigators throughout Florida. 3) Senior Developer and DB Manager of international profiling and investigation system; 4) Custom matched names from government lists to Latin American countries, assisting in investigations for their projects. 5) Received the ChoicePoint Rhino Award for programming excellence within our project group. Mail Projects Used extensive knowledge of direct mail industry to develop intranet systems which focus on tracking jobs thru the life cycle of mail and print processing, production scheduling, and complete customer care and tracking. Developed online quote system designed to ease the process of quoting jobs for clients thru a branded website and deliver the requests to a sales team. Online Auction System Worked with Tidewell Hospice and palliative care on an auction site to raise money for their organization. The Clowning Around Town auction was a real time auction with a backend on the internet set up so people could bid online in real-time as the actual auction was going on. Site was developed from a limited shell with no live auction ability into the used system within 4 weeks.