Brad P. Severance

Brad P. Severance

Web Developer

  
me@bradseverance.com
  
317.413.8865
  
6443 Bayside North Drive
Indianapolis, Indiana 46250
  
linkedin.com/in/bradseverance

Personal Profile

  • A seasoned programmer with an eye for design and a proven track record solving difficult real-world problems.
  • An excellent communicator that can articulate complex technical ideas to others in ordinary language.
  • An artist that sweats the details without losing sight of the bigger picture.
  • A personable, friendly person that enjoys learning from others.

Key Skills

Back-End Development

Real-world experience building websites, back-end applications, and API's, on multiple platforms and frameworks, including Node.js, Express.js, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Magento, Open-Source CFML on Lucee, Adobe ColdFusion, and Framework One, and multiple database technologies, including MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and MS-SQL Server. Hands-on experience with Firestore.

Front-End Development

Years of development experience with JavaScript and jQuery, HTML, CSS, and responsive design. Hands-on experience with Angular, SASS, and LESS.

Additional Skills

Hobbyist photographer, with hands-on experience with Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.

Elementary proficiency in the French language.


Work Experience

Web Developer II @ Batesville Technology

November 2014 - Present (Full-Time)

Responsibilities

  • Maintained, wrote new features, and fixed bugs for a feature-rich, enterprise-level CMS for the funeral industry that generates 190 million visitors per year and 75 million page hits per month.
  • Collaborated with a team of QA analysts, developers, infrastructure engineers, and project owners in an agile environment to successfully deliver software releases and hot fixes.
  • Integral member of a development team that architected and built an API for an exciting, industry-first mobile app.
  • 1,775 commits. 155,176 lines of code written. 309,994 lines of code edited or removed.

Technologies


Senior Web Developer @ SRI Incorporated

December 2013 - November 2014 (Full-Time)

Responsibilities

Helped build an online auction system (www.zeusauction.com) leveraging modern technologies to replace an outdated system.

Technologies


Web Developer @ TEKsystems (Notre Dame University)

June 2008 - March 2013 (Short-Term Contracts)

Responsibilities

  • Designed and built an application for the management of community engagement opportunities. Prototyped a complex UI.
  • Wrote new features and fixed bugs for an application for the Tax Assistance Program (TAP).
  • Created a website for the First Year of Studies program.
  • Helped redesign an application for the Institute for Scholarship in Liberal Arts.
  • Helped create and design a Registrar application (eTusc) to facilitate the input of semester classes.
  • Website maintenance and database administration of a student admissions site.
  • Wrote new features for an extranet for the Alliance of Catholic Education (ACE).

Technologies


Application Developer @ Health Systems International (Equian)

July 2008 - February 2009 (Short-Term Contracts)

Responsibilities

Wrote new features and fixed bugs for the corporate website, extranets, and intranets.

Technologies

  • Adobe ColdFusion
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • ColdFusion Report Writer, Crystal Reports
  • MS-SQL and Oracle (writing complex queries and stored procedures)

IT Manager @ Health Systems International (Equian)

November 2001 - November 2007 (Full-Time)

Responsibilities

As the IT Manager for a fast growing medium-sized business, I was responsible for the continuing growth of its technology. I was accountable to executive level individuals who came to me with various projects to improve existing applications and create new functionality. My work required constant communication and collaboration with executives, other departmental managers, vendors, and consultants to ensure that the company’s technology needs were met in a timely and successful manner.

Accomplishments

  • A corporate extranet site and a custom appointment application based on a client request using Adobe ColdFusion and MS-SQL Server.
  • An imaging upload system to automate the import of claim data into an Oracle claims system using Adobe ColdFusion and MS-SQL Server.
  • An intranet site housing custom applications, including a medical provider directory, a funds request reporting process, and a claim routing process using Adobe ColdFusion and MS-SQL Server.
  • An extranet between two company sites for catastrophic claim management, contract uploading and viewing, and contract record creation.

Projects

Laravel Books (Learning Laravel)

A project I created to learn Laravel, a popular and really cool MVC framework for PHP.
Laravel Books | Git Repo

Certifications

Education

Ivy Technical State College

Associate Degree Applied Science in Computer Information Systems (August 2000)

Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Bachelor Degree General Studies (May 1997)

Associate Degree General Studies (May 1995)


References and salory requirements available upon request.