RON MELLO
59 Wild Street Providence, RI 02904 |- |-OBJECTIVE
Highly motivated and results-driven Web / Software Developer with over 20
years of experience in engineering and web application development
complimented with United States Marine Corps leadership and project
management experience. Able to work unsupervised, under pressure and
manage multidisciplinary teams. Dedicated to the software development
process and project management of distributed and on-site teams. Continually
investigating new technologies and development process improvement.
SUMMARY
Most recently developed a real estate web application with Laravel,
jQuery and MD Bootstrap. I've also built a CRM for companies and
corresponding employees and a similar CRM for car rental tracking.
Prior development in vanilla PHP / MySQL web applications from
scratch utilizing jQuery, AJAX and other JS libraries where needed.
Involved in all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
which includes Requirements, Analysis Design, implementation,
integration, Testing, deployment, maintenance and involved in Product
Life Cycle Management (PLM). Well versed in developing SOA services
and consuming the services.
Experienced with the API life cycle and security policies using the AWS
API gateway.
Good knowledge in configuration and management of RDBMS systems
like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Working knowledge in the design and implementation of applications
relying on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Web Services,
SOAP, and WSDL.
Programming knowledge in XML related technologies like XML, XSL,
XSLT and schemas like DTD, XSD.
Worked on Operating Systems Windows Environment, ISO, UNIX and
LINUX.
Experienced in GUI/IDE tools using Eclipse and PHP WebStorm.
Great at documenting and understanding user requirements and system
specifications.
Creative team player with good communication and interpersonal,
analysis skills with ability to lead the team of developers.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Web Application Developer (presently)
January 2003 - Present
• Web application development with PHP / MySQL, jQuery and Bootstrap, using historical
data
• Developed a PHP / MySQL and jQuery content management system used in multiple real
estate web applications for a moderately large group of real estate end users.
• PHP / MySQL, HTML/CSS, Java Daemons for Google Maps API development
• Web Services protocols such as REST and API design
• Experience with Shopify’s object/properties, AJAX API, and Metafields
• Experience working with 3rd party services and APIs, specifically plugins for Shopify
• WordPress development with PHP / MySQL customizations and optimizations
• Database optimization and security audits
• CRON jobs for automated script execution
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) for various clients
in the Rhode Island and Massachusetts areas.
• Distributed team environments using: Laravel, Vagrant, AWS, Jira, GIT and Slack
• WordPress development and customization including eCommerce, SSL, security, Linux
system admin
• Experience with data migration, transformations and scripting
• Experience with Jira, Trello, GIT and other Agile development tools
CVS Caremark, Woonsocket, RI
IS Lead Applications Developer, Retail Portal Team (permanent)
February 2012 – October 2013
• JAVA development with Eclipse, JSP, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, ANT, SVN and SWING
GUI Dev
• XML configuration and communication between systems
• API Integration
• AES Encryption / HTTPS
• Store Systems Support
Bradley Hospital/Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
Research Engineer (permanent)
September 2004 – September 2006
• Re-design of a kinematics system consisting of IR lights / cameras, and CCTV cameras
• Design of ECG / Respiration system, encompassing professional digital video and audio
• Access database programming for section intranet
• Website development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Developed MATLAB routines to perform analysis of infant cry signal energies in the time
and frequency domains
• C / C++ routines to post-process various types of physiological data
• MATLAB used in the post-processing of MRI data sets
Raytheon, Portsmouth, RI
Electrical Engineer II (permanent)
May 1999 – January 2003
• Responsible for the development of C and assembly code for farms of TI TMS320C4x
digital signal processors using Code Composer Studio and the SPOX real-time operating
system
• Designed MATLAB / C++ / JAVA applications to model RF sensor performance
• Developed C programs for a side-lobe detection algorithm within the signal processing
and target identification stages of a system
• Programming of software packages in C++ for radar system performance modelling
• Responsible for forming a signal processing discussion group for all levels of expertise to
exchange ideas and share technical knowledge
EDUCATION
University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Graduated: May 1998
Community College of Rhode Island Warwick, Rhode Island
Associate in Science in Engineering
Graduated: May 1995
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Engineering Student Association (ESA)
President
Community College of Rhode Island (4 consecutive semesters)
United States Marine Corps
Construction, Engineer and Shore Party
Parris Island, South Carolina
Graduated: September 1991
