George “Mickey” Buckno Jr.

Web Developer and Designer

Brick, NJ 08724 | Contact | mickeybuckno.com | LinkedIn

Imaginative web developer and designer with an unquenchable passion to learn and push the boundaries of what’s currently possible.

Career Summary

  • More than sixteen years of web development and design experience on LAMP/NGINX platform, involving successful management of all aspects of website production and design.
  • Constant desire and passion to expand skillset and abilities via research and study of the newest and most in-demand technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to complete high-priority projects using research, intuition, knowledge of best practices and an array of skills garnered through experience.
  • Proactive problem solver that brings solutions, not problems and who can work multiple projects on tight deadlines to fulfill client and management needs.
  • Ability to work within a team environment or individually with the experience-based knowledge of the best time for each.

Design and Computer Skills

Language Skills:
      Advanced: PHP, HTML, SQL, CSS, XML, RSS
      Average: jQuery, JavaScript, RegEx, AJAX, SOAP, JSON, REST
      Novice: PERL, Linux, Terminus

Software: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Adobe XD, SVN, NetBeans, LibreOffice, GIT

CMS/Libraries: Joomla!, CodeIgniter/BackendPro, WordPress, Magento, OpenCart, FPDF, BootStrap, Flexbox, Zendesk

Platforms: Windows (preferred), Mac OS

Professional Experience

Homebridge Financial Services | Iselin, NJ | 2014 – Present

Senior Web Developer and Designer

  • Supported WordPress installations for over 15 different sites over my tenure, maintaining both third party and in-house plugins as well as optimizing code and style across all sites.
  • Worked with Marketing to help bring designs to life for ADA-compliant, responsive forward facing websites on Zendesk and WordPress themes from scratch as well as provide dashboard and backend options to make editing and updating content easy and reliable.
  • Developed schema and SEO techniques with the Director of Analytics to ensure proper search representation and optimization.
  • Developed techniques for communicating to third party and in-house REST servers via both AJAX and cURL.
  • Continual optimization of code, style, ADA compliance, and CX/UX techniques to provide the best user experience possible for content editors and users.
  • Developed several plugins to help maintain information, provide exports of data, and maintain the integrity of the forward-facing websites.
  • Worked with several outside resources including Zendesk, Zapier, LeadMailbox, TrustPilot, and Synup to increase review representation, leads, helpdesk response time, and much more.

Freelance Contractor | Merchantville, NJ | 2014 – 2014

Self-Employed Freelancer

  • Worked with several different companies including CEQUIX Information Technology and Idea Lab
  • Develop, maintain, and style WordPress themes using responsive HTML5 and CSS3.
  • Create, conceptualize, and implement WordPress plugins.
  • Research, test, and gather facts for weekly blog articles.
  • Debug and restyle Magento themes.
  • Edit photographs and graphics for web placement.

WebiMax | Mount Laurel, NJ | 2012 – 2014

Front End Web Developer

  • Maintain, modify and develop for an array of Content Management Systems including WordPress, Magento, OpenCart, and DotNetStoreFront by designing various modules, plug-ins, themes and features using PHP5 and MVC techniques.
  • Design for an array of CMS systems utilizing HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, jQuery, and responsive design.
  • Work with the graphic arts team to translate static images to CSS/HTML templates.
  • Consistently stay up to date with various technologies in order to anticipate further changes in the programs that the team utilizes.
  • Stay up-to-date with every system used by the company and my teammates in order to anticipate changes and work with them.
  • Collaborate with the project managers to ensure that the sites are coming along in the anticipated timeline and to the clients’ expectations.
  • Quality control and assurance as the work progresses, maintaining a “clean-as-you-go” mentality.

Destination ImagiNation, Inc. | Cherry Hill, NJ | 2009 – 2012

Web Developer

  • Maintain, modify and develop for an array of Content Management Systems including Joomla!, CodeIgniter and WordPress by designing various modules, plug-ins, themes and features using PHP5 and MVC techniques.
  • Work directly with a graphic arts team to translate static images to CSS/HTML templates.
  • Collaborate with communications team to maintain branding, messaging and visibility.
  • Create styles, modules and components for several promotional campaigns.
  • Work closely with a Web team to help ensure the consistency of the brand as well as the algorithms and scripts implemented throughout the organization’s web presence.
  • Managed a team of volunteers and consultants during the 2011 Finals event held in Tennessee.
  • Developed a REST authorization to help users deal with multiple usernames and passwords for multiple sites.
  • Created a quiz module that held all of the question and answer data in one column of a database, then parsed it and utilized methods and classes to display the questions to users and each user’s answers to staff.

Digital Marketing Group | Moorestown, NJ | 2007 – 2009

Director of New Technologies / Web Developer

  • Created custom graphics for promotional use of artists and bands to display on websites and social media pages.
  • Set up and maintained promotional social media accounts for artists and bands.
  • Scripted a PHP4/MySQL management system to keep track of clients, their assets and their analytics. This system generated reports, alerted staff of deadlines and provided tools to assist in the promotion of clients.
  • Built dynamic and scalable widgets for clients’ promotional use that included slideshows, streaming MP3 players, mailing list signups, concert listings, etc.
  • Devised a zip code radius concert promotion email blast system utilizing preexisting client mailing lists.
  • Client management system and multiple money-saving suggestions saved the company roughly $40,000 during the two years under employ.
  • Widgets and promotional tools developed directly resulted in doubling the client base for almost a year.

Freelance Contractor | Merchantville, NJ | 2006 – 2009

Self-Employed Freelancer

  • Create different artist-related graphics for CDs, T-shirts, promotional posters, stickers, and other media.
  • Photograph and videotape bands’ live performances for promotional use.
  • Develop Web sites and custom Content Management Systems for bands utilizing PHP4/5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash.
  • Clients include: Machan, DéNaté, Collision of Me and I, Tonight’s the Night, Waiting on Wendy and SouthernXpress.

Education

Chubb Institute | Cherry Hill, NJ | Graduated 2007

Visual Communications

Certification in Graphic Design and Animation

Burlington County College | Pemberton, NJ | Attended 2002-2006

Liberal Arts

Course work completed