Patrick McElhaney

Experience

2010-Present Ally Financial (initially via TTI of USA)

Senior Web Presentation Architect

Developed a complex interest calculator and interactive graph for Ally.com (JavaScript, Highcharts, SVG/VRML)
Rewrote the search page for Ally.com, adding several enhancements using modern standards (HTML5, CSS3, etc.)
Created Ally's mobile home page (m.ally.com)
Gave "lunch 'n' learn" presentations on AMD/RequireJS, TDD/QUnit, and Git
Championed the practice of Test Driven Development
Authored the team's JavaScript style guide

2000-Present American City Business Journals (initially via Signature Consultants)

Lead Developer / Web Developer

Designed and built the specialized content management system that SportsBusiness Daily uses to write, edit, and publish (ColdFusion, JavaScript)
Improved integration between SportsBusinessJournal.com and ACBJ's fulfillment center database, eliminating errors and saving 10 man hours / week of labor (ColdFusion)
Designed and built a flexible, easy-to-use email marketing application that delivers hundreds of thousands of messages each week (ColdFusion, JavaScript)
Expanded the company intranet from a dozen to hundreds of applications; at the same time reduced maintenance and support requirements from 40 hours to 2-4 hours weekly (ColdFusion)
Built and/or maintained several news and e-commerce web sites (ColdFusion, ASP.NET, PHP, VB)
Rebuilt custom search engines for three different web sites to enhance accuracy, usability, robustness, and performance; reducing the average search time by an order of magnitude in each case (ColdFusion, Java/Lucene)
Linchpin in the seamless transition of 2000 users and several systems from iPlanet to Active Directory authentication (C#, ColdFusion, Python, PHP)
Spearheaded the formation of a new department to productively manage several of ACBJ's internal and external Web sites
Mentored and trained developers in all aspects of the software development lifecycle
Recruited, interviewed, and recommended new hires
Advised team and management on best practices in software construction, project management, usability, database architecture, and configuration management
Designed and implemented an extensible DSL for the SBJ/SBD reader survey, which facilitated frequent and often substantial change requests

2000 Unifi Technology Group

Senior Application Developer

Oversaw six Java developers
Lead developer / project manager of the web groups's most successful venture (ColdFusion)

1999-2000 Computer Associates

Senior Application Engineer

Specified the initial personalization engine of a multi-million dollar portal, securing the client's confidence to continue with the next phase

1997-1999 CC Communications

Production Assistant

Built dynamic web sites for dozens of clients in Perl, ColdFusion, and ASP
Discovered and plugged security holes

Summary

Skills

Experience

2010-Present Ally Financial (initially via TTI of USA)

Senior Web Presentation Architect

2000-Present American City Business Journals (initially via Signature Consultants)

Lead Developer / Web Developer

2000 Unifi Technology Group

Senior Application Developer

1999-2000 Computer Associates

Senior Application Engineer

1997-1999 CC Communications

Production Assistant

Other Projects