Thomas Cocuzza

Profile
Since leaving the brokerage industry in 1998, I have been working with various Internet technologies. Most of my early experience was from developing sites for my own companies. For the last three years I have succeeded in a corporate environment. My main areas of expertise are web development in a LAMP environment and internet marketing.
Objective
To find a position where I can work with an advanced team of developers in building and marketing a cutting edge website
Education

Kean University (2003-2005) Union, NJ

B.S., Computer Science - Info Systems

3.86 GPA - summa cum laude

Experience

Max.md Fort Lee, NJ

Senior Software Engineer (2008-present)

  • MVC Framework
    • Created a php MVC framework based on Symfony for all of the company's websites. The framework provides an intuitive architecture which allows new developers a shorter learning curve. The "model" uses Propel object-relational mapping to allow access to the database using object oriented php code. The "view" uses a template system similar to Smarty. The "control" uses a action file similar to the one used in Symfony which contains all of the interaction between the model and the view. This setup allows developers to manage the area within MVC with which they are most comfortable.
  • MySQL
    • Extended and maintained to monitor several MySQL databases. The databases contained email, dns, and user information needed for the company's domain registration and email business. I also wrote cron-job scripts renew registrations, clean data and mirror multiple databases.
  • SVN
    • Used SVN to manage all of the company's websites. Utilized and extended a publish script which pushed versions of the website to either the production or evaluation server.
  • Administration tools
    • Built administrative tools to manage products and user data in order to allow non-technical personelle to manage the databases.
  • SEO
    • Developed the Internet marketing plan for each of the company's websites. The plan increased targeted traffic and maximized conversions through a combination of keyword rich press releases, remote bookmarking, and restructuring of the local html.
  • Maintained a custom shopping cart with credit card capabilities
    • The cart was database driven. All products could be managed from an admin site. The cart interfaced with a money handler that could accept credit cards. Upon finalization of the checkout transaction, the user's subscriptions would be updated in a local database and pushed to the remote database which handled the domain registrations.
  • CSS
    • Developed the website's css to ensure many frontend changes could be made via CSS.

Fantasy Brains,LLC Manasquan,NJ

Senior Web Developer (2007)

  • Built two web sites for the fantasy football industry using php on a Symfony platform
    • Created all of the functionality for two websites from a non-working prototype. Functionality included interaction between the database and users, multi-tier authentication and user administartion tools.
  • Developed and maintained 3 mysql databases
    • Designed the mySQL database that held the statistics to rank players for fantasy football. Also created the database to store user rankings of players. And wrote scripts to data mine information to assist the content writers.
  • Created a custom shopping cart with credit card capabilities
    • Implemented the shopping cart from a non-working prototype. The products could be managed from a administration tool. Each subscription would give a user a different credential which would allow access to various tools on the site.
  • Implemented Ajax tecniques to improve the user experience
    • Used ajax to allow users to drag and drop players to allow them to rank players. Upon saving the rankings would write to a database and track the changes.

Wells Ideas, Inc. Mendham, NJ

IT Consultant (2005-Present)

  • Built, maintained, and hosted approximately 50 LAMP websites.
  • Designed databases for over 40 websites after gathering user requirements
  • Work with clients to maximum their success using the Internet
  • Assist companies in the purchasing, upgrading, maintenance and assembly of hardware and software
  • Write programs for clients that extend the life or improve their existing software
  • Assist clients with data management, storage, mining and parsing

Aztec Sports and Information Systems Inc. Basking Ridge, NJ

President, CIO (1999-Present)

  • Designed, constructed and maintain Aztecsports.net web site in a LAMP environment
  • The site houses the industry’s best Internet-based scouting software
  • Designed, maintained, and hosted the relational database that stores data for football coaches to predict their opponent's play calling tendencies
  • Consults with high school, college and professional football teams in order to develop a technologically efficient workplace

Barmenu.com Morristown, NJ

President, CIO (1999-2004)

  • Designed, constructed and maintained BarMenu.com, a social networking site used to promote bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.
  • Handled all aspects of the company's Internet marketing including SEO and advertisement purchasing
  • Managed a team of 5 advertisement salesman
  • Designed, constructed and maintained approximately 30 web sites for the company’s clients
  • Designed, constructed and maintained an Access database which was used to store over 65,000 establishments
  • Migrated site from asp scripts, Access database and an NT server to PHP, mySQL, and an Apache server
  • Sold the company to a private group in 2005

Montclair Financial Group Montclair, NJ

CIO (1999)

  • Converted Wells Capital Corp. web site into MontclairFinancial.com
  • Hosted and maintained web site
  • Managed a team of 5 advertisement salesman
  • Set up and maintained a network of 6 IBM computers using windows NT
  • Merged Wells Capital Corp. database into MFC


Wells Capital Corp. Livingston, NJ

CIO, CFO (1998)

  • Designed, constructed and maintained the first fully functional web site in the advanced funding industry
  • Designed, constructed and maintained a database of leads and clients
  • Integrated Act database and tutored all brokers to increase productivity
  • Negotiated the sale of the company to the third largest company in the industry
Technical Skills

Languages

  • Java (11years)
  • Perl (11years)
  • Bash scripting (11years)
  • C/C++ (11years)
  • Ruby (7years)

Web Technologies

  • (D)HTML (14years)
  • PHP (11years)
  • ASP (14years)
  • XML Schema (9years)
  • AJAX (10years)
  • XSL/XSLT (9years)
  • RSS (8years)
  • Ruby on Rails (7years)

Databases

  • mySQL (12years)
  • Access (14years)

Operating Systems

  • Linux (Redhat, Fedora Core)
  • Windows (NT, 2000/2003, XP)