About Me

I live and breathe everything web.

Whether it is developing well structured, standard compliant front-end interfaces, highly extensible back-end applications, deploying secure LAMP environments, or designing thoroughly planned user interface experiences.

I am a 5-tool developer with a business oriented mindset.

Let's build something and save some money while doing it.

anthonysessa@gmail.com

Recent Work

www.drinkchai.com

CakePHP MVC Framework.

www.dekko.co

High-end, mobile friendly, WordPress - implemented the best standards, SEO, caching and server based optimizations.

www.halfpretties.com

Shopify.

www.whosright.com

Custom MVC Framework.

www.7diamonds.com

Magento @ DO

www.dananddave.com

Magento @ DO

www.preserveproducts.com/vuerecycling

Magento @ DO

www.stussy.com

Magento and Wordpress. @ DO

www.centerrific.com

ZendFramework MVC @ DO

www.livebydesign.com

ZendFramework MVC @ DO

www.reassure.com

Magento @ DO

www.gospelflatfarm.com

Wordpress.

Technical Specialties

PHP

5+ years of experience

MVC framework experience: ZendFramework, CodeIgniter, CakePHP

MySQL

Scripting, normalization, and optimization

HTML(5) / CSS(3)

High quality, organized, and standard compliant

JavaScript

OOP, jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Node.js

LAMP Server Administration

Full production/development server environment setup and management

Extensive subversion configuration and management

Regression and Unit Testing

MemCache and other database optimization techniques

iOS

iPhone and iPad native application development

PhoneGap and Appcelerator

Magento eCommerce

Custom theme development

Custom module development

Content Management Systems

WordPress: Full theme and plugin

Shopify: Full front-end and back-end

Others: Drupal, Joomla, MovableType, MediaWiki

Education

Georgetown University

B.S., Science, Technology & International Affairs: Focus in Computer Science

While attending Georgetown University, studied in Cairo, Egypt and obtained written and oral proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic

Experience

Digital Operative | Senior Developer, Lead Front-End Developer - January 2011 - Present (11 months)

Front-end and Back-end developer specializing in Magento eCommerce. Additionally, I develop using the WordPress blogging platform, as well as ZendFramework.

Consensus Media | CTO and Developer - February 2010 - December 2010 (10 months)

Helped raise a second round of angel investment for WhosRight.com, while managing a team of programmers for the first several months. Afterwards, I set-up a environment managed via Subversion with auto-syncing pre and post-commit scripts as well as integrated Unit/Regression testing. Additionally, managed quality assurance and bug reporting.

Department of State, eDiplomacy | New Media Technical Advisor - July 2009 - February 2010 (8 months)

Held Top Secret Clearance. Developed and Designed intranet blogs using the MovableType platform. Worked with MediaWiki project called Diplopedia, which was a centralized wiki for the 50k+ Department of State employees. Additionally, worked with Elgg, Drupal, and WordPress.