Resume WordPress developer

Aug 2008

Oracle Certified Associate 11i

NIIT

Certifications

Feb 2019

Design Patterns & Object Oriented Programming

LinkedIn

Oct 2018

HTML5, CSS3, MySQL Expert

PluralSight

Jan ***************

Federal University of Technology, Owerri

B.Tech - Physics & Applied Electronics

Built a LED display system that projected soccer match values using Visual C++ & Windows Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL).

Education

Jan ***************

AppWorld Technologies

WordPress Developer

Responsible for designing custom WP themes used on client websites and various SAAS applications using PHP 7, Bootstrap, jQuery.

Worked on custom plugin called Widgetify used by our team for design. Saved company $5,000 in theme purchases costs annually.

Resolved plugin issues and fixed broken WordPress themes used on client sites. This helped prevent downtime for over 92% of our client sites.

Set up, cloned & backed up WordPress projects & databases via WordPress Importer & VaultPress plugins. Increased client satisfaction by 20%.

Led preparation of design documentation, functional specification manuals & user acceptance criteria for various projects.

Set up Docker containers for various WordPress projects to facilitate local development for other developers.

Aug ***************

LadipoMarket.com.ng

Senior WordPress Developer

Designed functioning theme of the existing website based off UI/UX wireframes using PHP, Bootstrap (CSS) & jQuery.

Developed custom plugins for vendors, auto-mechanics registrations, thereby enabling site gain traction of up to 15,000 members.

Built plugin that tracks users buying behavior and suggests related products to users at checkout point. Increased sales by up to 15%.

Optimized website to yield faster search results for products and engage potential clients via custom chat bot built into the site.

Migrated on-site DB to cloud DB using Amazon Web Services - RDS (Aurora MySQL). This enabled site scale to 25,000 search requests per day.

Set up development, staging, production environments for e-commerce project.

Mar 2020 - Present

Turing LLC, Palo Alto

Senior WordPress Developer

Designed custom WordPress themes based off UI/UX wireframes using PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery and theme builders - Divi & Elementor.

Developed custom WordPress plugins used for extending Elementor’s Nav Menu & migrating a non-WP database to WordPress 60% times faster.

Optimized speed for client WordPress sites thereby reducing load times by up to 80% using WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Asset Minify, e.t.c.

Improved user accessibility & SEO for client WordPress sites using WP Accessibility Helper, Yoast SEO. Increased client satisfaction by up to 25%.

Resolved plugin issues & broken themes by updating dependencies via Composer (e.g. Carbon Fields). Helped prevent downtime up to 97%.

Set up development, staging & production environments for various WordPress websites using Pantheon.io.

Work Experience

WordPress Developer with over 12 years experience building various WordPress themes and plugins using HTML5, CSS3 (LESS, SASS), Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Themes 
(Elementor, Divi, e.t.c.), Plugins (WooCommerce, iThemes, Yoast SEO, Jet Pack, WP Super Cache, Akismet, Contact Form 7, e.t.c), PHPUnit, Composer, Packagist, Bedrock, Themosis, Git 
(GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket), Docker, AWS EC2 (T2 & M5 instances), RDS (Aurora MySQL), Lightsail, OAuth, Stripe, Travis CI, Circle CI, WP CLI, React (Gutenberg Blocks).

WordPress Developer

Chigozie ******

Skills & Tools

Tool Stack

Skills & Tools

Toolkit - PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery, WordPress
Web - HTML5, CSS3 (LESS, SASS), JavaScript
Themes - Elementor, Divi, Salient e.t.c.
Plugins - WooCommerce, iThemes, Yoast SEO, Jet Pack, e.t.c.
Database - MySQL, Oracle
Containerization - Docker, Vagrant
Cloud - AWS EC2 (T2 & M5), RDS (Aurora MySQL), LightSail
Dependency Managers - Composer, Packagist
3rd party - OAuth, Stripe, SendGrid, Twillo
VCS - GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
Gutenberg Blocks - React
Unit Testing - PHPUnit

Skills

WordPress Projects

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Profile

Websites, E-commerce & Web Applications

www.acumen.com.ng - Worked on UI/UX design, implemented front-end design. 
www.armlabs.com.ng - Worked on UI/UX, testimonials, template-parts & plugins. 
www.ibukunawosika.org - Worked on UI/UX, custom plugins and site speed optimisation. 
www.ladipomarket.com.ng - Worked on registration plugins, shopping cart bot, mobile app. 
www.leftplusright.com - Worked on Divi contact form, implemented custom solution. 
www.charlescity.org - Worked on DB migration plugin & database records UI. 
www.trilogymentors.com - Worked on UI/UX for home page and implementation. 
www.byteback.org - Worked on calendar, custom javascript & site speed optimisation. 
www.aigbeomoregie.com - Worked on UI/UX, gallery, blog sections. 
www.intercontinentalpaintltd.com - Worked on UI/UX, colour chart and custom javascript. 
www.simpletexting.com - Worked on custom carousel used on home page. 
www.elementor.com - Worked on extending Elementor Nav Menu options. 
www.ofadahut.com - Integrated front-end to WordPress RESTful API end point. 
www.tigsltd.com - Worked on UI/UX, implemented design from scratch to finish. 
www.rovitecservices.com - Worked on UI/UX, implemented design from scratch to finish. 
www.weizdhurmfranklyn.com - Worked on UI/UX, implemented design, integrated stripe.