Web Development Consultant
IT Contractor
Freelance Software Engineer
Mark Nagle

Chicago area IT specialist offering a wide range of services for small businesses and entrepreneurs

Web Development
Expert level web development by a university trained Software Engineer, with over 7 years professional programming experience, 5 years of consulting experience and 2 years of freelance consulting experience

Custom Web Development - PHP and J2EE

  • hand coded dynamic web development
  • cross browser and XHTML compliance
  • complex javascript and AJAX configurations
  • custom content management systems
  • Google Apps and third-party applications integration
  • reliable and maintainable single site architectures
  • custom SSL integration
  • RSS Feed publishing and web integration
  • Web Services development
  • graphical design integration

Custom Web Database Solutions - MySQL

  • expert level data modeling and performance tuning
  • MySQL and postgreSQL
  • specialized PHP and J2EE database driver solutions

Grassroots SEO and Black Hat SEO

  • Keyword and Metatag optimization
  • HTML SEO optimization
  • content and link optimization
  • sitemap generation
  • Google Webmaster Tools integration
  • Flash SEO
  • SEO strategy

Linux/Apache Server Migrations - PHP

  • thoroughly tested web host migrations
  • database migrations and backups
  • help you to find a web host to fit your future needs
  • SSL certificate re-key and migration
  • legacy code updates

Linux/Apache/PHP Web Host Configurations

  • full understanding of web hosting concepts
    • Domain Registry
    • DNS and MX
    • host to IP address to SSL relationships
    • shared hosting vs. private server paradigms
    • redirection
    • regular expressions
  • full understanding of third party tools
    • Web Host Manager (WHM)
    • cPanel
    • phpMyAdmin
  • http authorization integration
  • crontab processing
  • Apache extension updates
  • SSL certificate installations
  • shell scripting and ssh

Web Hacking

  • custom web-crawlers, -miners and -spiders
  • graphical design replication and alteration
  • web form hacking
  • web browser hacking

 

Software Engineering
Seasoned Software Engineering - incorporating best practices for personal software development

Well Versed in Many Programming Languages

  • C/C++ and Visual C++
  • Java
  • Basic and Visual Basic
  • SQL and PL/SQL
  • PHP and Perl
  • Lisp and Scheme
  • MIPS and x86 Assembler

Designing and Tuning Relational Databases

  • ORACLE
  • DB2
  • MySQL

Application Server Configuration

  • Websphere
  • Tomcat
  • Struts

Requirements Gathering

  • personal consultation
  • knowledgeable explanations

Detailed Design

  • detailed system and workflow design
  • detailed technical design
  • bluebook documentation

Quality Assurance

  • software testing
  • benchmarking

Application Development Workstation Setup

  • local Apache/MySQL/PHP setups for developers
  • local Apache/Tomcat setups for developers

 

Qualifications
University educated, professionaly accomplished and active in Software Engineering

Educated Freelance Software Engineer

  • BS is Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (UIUC)
  • specialized in real-time systems and process scheduling, digital signal processing and analogue/digital analysis
  • full spectrum understanding of modern computing and complexity analysis
  • ongoing self education is complex mathematics and fractal theory
  • Fluent in German and maintains interest in language study

Personal Accomplishments

  • offline C++ fractal generation and animation engine
  • online PHP fractal generation and animation engine
  • online PHP/MySQL Chess - fully functional

Professional Accomplishments in Software Engineering

  • first-class Software Engineer / Consultant for many high profile companies
  • developed large scale logic reduction engine for product research
  • developed large scale item grouping engine for product research
  • developed thread-safe ACID transactions over connection pools associated to different database types
  • built many software components for automated image processing
  • implemented security structures for online and automated digital property transfer

 

Current Portfolio Links

Professional Graphical And Functional Online Software

Professional Functional Online Software

Professional Graphical Online Software

Personal Online Software

 

Rates

I offer very competitive rates for my level of expertise.

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10% off for the first month of service

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