Technical Architect + E-commerce Aubrey, Texas
25+ Years of E-Commerce and Creative Engineering consulting with LAMP stacks, beginning with early PHP e-commerce packages such as: X-Cart, Os-Commerce, and custom solutions. Currently focused with exciting crypto, Solana, VR/AR, Three.js, React, Web3, etc. With a long history unraveling Magento. Self taught and driven to learn about cutting edge technologies and their unique solutions to novel dilemmas. This has inspired me to go even deeper into information technology, specifically in the E-commerce Magento discipline for enterprise solutions that are custom geared for client business requirements.
Owner at Molotov.bliss September 1999 - Present
Creative & unique technical based solutions for specific requirements; to help achieve better ROI while streamlining & considering technical debt and management. A consult/developer provider for numerous clients. Research and Development into cutting edge technologies with experience knowing how to best utilize new technologies for leveraging the best turn-key & custom solutions for specific client needs. Decades of knowledge gained while growing up alongside the world wide web before the web was nothing more than text & dial-ups and local BBS.
A few clients include but not limited to: Blues Traveler, Artist Management, Group LA, DollsKill, Full English, Spraybooth Supplies, Forklift Accessories, and many others.
Current Personal Project(s):
Physis: Solana based crypto/blockchain ($PHY) for the metaverse & outerverse (reality) with a focus on health and wellness. Initial project development & technical direction. Other duties include Web3 & WebGL/ThreeJS sites with react & planned Magento.
Lead Technical Specialist July 2021 - November 2021 Technical Lead, Contract. Magento 2.x Cloud (Adobe Commerce) maintenance, extending and support for various agency and stake holder. Additional Aspects in WebGL/3D aspects consulting, code reviews, assisting knowledge transfer of implemented technology for a Room Builder React application.
Magentico Sr Developmer November 2020 - May 2021 A first employee of a quickly growing Magento & other technologies agency. Multiple management & solutions to clientele of varying industries. Working directly with product owners, outside agencies (on and offshore), project managers and contractors to implement full stack requests from general support to 3D experiences. Magento cloud, 2.x and 1.x versions. Other duties also include best practices implementation, thought leadership with other Sr Devs & Stakeholders. Development for adaption of fast growing environment & pace of timelines, DevOps, Documentation, Troubleshooting of difficult to solve issues to day to day development both backend and frontend.
ArrowCore Group Sr Magento Consultant May 2020 - September 2020 Magento 1.x/2.x & Cloud. Migration of previous highly customized M1 to M2; working with a small team Other duties - maintaining existing M1 & M2 international multi-store setup of other client entities. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap, Prototype, etc.
Weidenhammer Sr Magento Analyst November 2019 - April 2020 Responsible for providing quality solutions that meet development requirements in support of eCommerce platform projects on Magento 2 (mostly on Magento cloud). Provides senior level guidance to others on the team and can working directly with clients to understand requirements. Current forte Magento 1.x to 2.x data migration.
aFe POWER - advanced FLOW engineering, Inc. Sr Magento/Solutions Architect July 2018 - July 2019 Automotive aftermarket industry. Duties include Magento 1.x enterprise enhancements, maintenance & server support, including AWS environments along with local VMWare instance for other team members. Other duties include WordPress, Hubspot, Microsoft NAV, Code audits & git repo maintenance with builds & deployments. Working directly with marketing efforts.
Guidance Technical Magento Lead March 2017 - December 2017 Contract Technical Magento Lead working closely with Project Management, Front-end and Back-end developers on a Magento 1.x to 2.x migration as well as maintenance. Code reviews, Builds (Jenkins), project delegation, documentation & unblocking stuck developers.
Robofirm Senior Technical Lead December 2015 - February 2017 Digital agency innovating content, commerce, and user-centered experiences: Managing Clientele from Fortune 500's to Mid-Size business who use Magento as their E-Commerce platform and front end to their business to their customers. Some examples of services performed: Magento integration, Custom geared Magento modules, existing Magento code base audits for performance and security, server hardening for security, A/B testing, payment method integration,and much more. Guiding clients with expertise in technology on methods and best practices to appease customers needs to help maximize profits while heavily influencing clients ROI.
Aydus Sr. Magento Developer July 2013 - February 2015 Aydus Consulting specializing in strategy, custom development, and design in eCommerce, CMS, and custom web application verticals. Extensive international and corporate experience in all aspects of web/software development.
Sr. Magento Developer at Lyons Consulting Group March 2012 - February 2013 Building custom geared Magento Enterprise Modules, Integrations, Frontend development, and more.
Technical Architect / PHP Developer at Amplifi Commerce December 2010 - January 2012 Magento Commerce Enterprise Edition: Development, Implementation and Design. Helping build, launch and manage successful e-commerce channels for leading brands.
Software Engineer at CORE Action Group February 2008 - August 2010 Developer / Designer duties, as well as IT related duties. Developing a state-of-the-art Video capture and retrieval system based on LAMP and Windows Stacked servers and custom Windows multi-threaded C# WPF Applications which utilize RF-ID, IP Camera, and Social networks technologies for tracking individuals, recording their presence, processing and uploading the tagged videos for retrieval online or offline. Other duties include but not limited to: HTML/XHTML, CSS, Customizing out of box solutions, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop and General Networking and Server Support.
Contract C# Developer at Modis February 2007 - February 2008 Contract Frontend .Net C# Developer. Working closely with Marketing, Backend developers and Testers for Corporate Website features and Bug resolutions. Main technologies used: HTML, Flash, CSS, JavaScript, C# and Photoshop.
Owner at Cart-Lab.com October 2003 - November 2007 Owner and Operator. Developing custom “Geared” e-commerce solutions with a PHP/MySQL Based E-commerce package X-Cart. Custom programming, Design, Server administration and other related services & products available to clients. Duties include, but not limited to: Developer, Designer, Sales, Support, Technical Support, etc.
Some highlighted technologies I have worked with:
- Magento 1.x & 2.x (+Cloud)
- 3D: Three.js, Xeogl, WebGL, Blender, etc.
- Frontend: React, ReactNative, PMNDS, Javascript ES5/6 (KnockOutJS/AJAX) / JSON/XML/XSLT / CSS/xHTML / etc.
- Backend: OOP / PHP / Bash / SQL / Python / Node.js
- Troubleshooting & Debugging (X-Debug/htop/systrace)
- DevOps: Linux (all flavors) / Windows Server
- SecOps: Prevention / Monitoring / SSL / Auditing post breach
- Infrastructure: AWS / RackSpace / Magento Cloud / etc.
- Optimization & Performance: Backend to Frontend Optimizations (TTFB/Metrics/Compression)
- Auto scaling / Load Balancing
- Apache / Nginx / Caddy
- ElasticSearch / Solr / Sphinx
- MySQL / MariaDB / PerconnaDB
- Varnish / Redis / Memcached
- CMS: Wordpress / Grav
- Integrations: ERP / 3PL / CRM / General APIs / etc.
- JIRA / Confluence / Git / GitHub / BitBucket / GitLab
- VSCode, VisualStudio, PHP Storm & Sublime Text IDEs
- Audio & Video: Re-Noise / Abelton / Sound Design / Blender / After Effects
- (817)754-0303
- jared.blalock@gmail.com
- Personal Site / Github