My Resume

Tyler Merrell

 
Hard working full stack web developer with desire to create excellent user experience for clients through web apps and marketing sites. Previous site development on multiple sites with tens of thousands of pages in Nodejs, PHP, Laravel, WordPress, and Drupal. Expierence consolidating multiple sites with thousands of pages into single brand and marketing site. Also experience in Bootstrap, Uikit, Javascript, Jquery, CSS3, HTML5, Python, C#, and C++.
 

DEVELOPER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Micro Focus (EKR Agency) – May 2016 to Present
Worked on multiple teams and multiple stacks to build full stack experience on a large team of developers.

• Worked as front end developer on a team that consolidated many years of Micro Focus acquisitions into one website. Consolidated Attachmate.com, Borland.com, Serena.com, Novell.com, Netiq.com, and gwava.com into Microfocus.com. These sites were migrated to a LAMP stack that used the Laravel framework.

• Worked on the consolidations of the seven different intranets due to Micro Focus acquisitions into one company wide intranet to be accessed by 10,000 people. Built modules and specialized pages to pull in content from several SQL databases.

• Built over 30 training videos on how to use the new custom WordPress site, including how to properly use modules, navigation, and custom pages correctly.

• Managed redirects in Apache and Nginx for websites with over 50,000 pages as content was migrated from multiple sites to move Microfocus.com to a headless Drupal, and Nodejs website. Implemented a python script to test all redirects.

• Built new modules for Microfocus.com using a headless Drupal system and Nodejs. This included building dynamic UI in Drupal to input page content. The content was then passed as JSON to the Nodejs site where the front end of the module could be developed to display content.

• Maintained code in 5+ Git repositories using feature branches, release branches, rollback branches, pull requests, code reviews and Bitbucket.

• Practiced Agile methodologies using Jira, stand-ups, grooming meetings, sprints, retrospective meetings, and demonstration meetings.

• Worked on front end modules that included the use of Bootstrap, Uikit, Css3, Javascript, Jquery, HTML5, Blade templating, Nunjucks templating.

• Worked on backend of Laravel site that included the use of API’s to query data for 200+ products and the assets.

• Trained new employees on the systems and processes of the team. Became go to guy for getting new team members set up. Also preformed trainings for the team on Jquery, Mongo DB, and WordPress development.

• Decreased time to set up a local environment from two to three days down to four hours. Built the new local environment in Docker and setup script. Created documentation for the set up processes.

• Wrote Python scripts to build a site map, test for broken links, test redirects, and to spell check page content. Also wrote test scripts in PHP to check valid input from development and content teams.

• Worked on cross browser and operating system testing and styling.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Founder and Manager            Merrell Recycling                                 2004 to 2016
Maintenance Manager          Elms Holdings LLC.                              March 2015-April 2016
Finish Worker at                       Cory Christensen Construction     2011 to 2015
Full-Time Missionary Lima Peru                                                               May 2009 – May 2011

EDUCATION: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science – Utah Valley University
• Built a VM, assembler, and compiler in Nodejs.
• Built a CRUD website and REST API in C# and .NET that used a Microsoft SQL database.

Programming Expierence:

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Jquery
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Less
  • WordPress
  • HTML
  • C
  • C++
  • Java
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Bootstrap
  • C#
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Nodejs
 

References

“I just wanted to tell you nice work on the (Micro Focus) homepage. I’m sure you are still making edits but it’s looking really, really good!”
  Travis White – Quality Assurance Team Lead at Micro Focus/EKR
 
“Tyler Merrell did a great job with very little direction building the product page module for pulling in the blog RSS feed posts. He also figured out how to get Docker set up to work locally all on his own.”
Jenny Quinn – Sr. Developer Team Lead
 
 

My sites

thfoutdoors.com

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