> Hi, I'm  Joe Barry

Occupation:
Full Stack Web Developer

Location:
Central Pennsylvania

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717.968.6583

Projects
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Pet Age

Pet Age is a national pet industry resource that uses WordPress as its content management system. My contributions to petage.com include the design, front-end, and back-end development of the website. This includes a custom theme, extensive use of custom post types for specialized content, payment integration with Authorize.net, optimized landing pages for sales conversion, automation of newsletter sending, and much more. I’ve also optimized meta-tags and html structure across the site which has led to continuous growth of organic search traffic.

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Central Penn Parent

The Central Penn Parent website is the top parenting web resource in Central Pennsylvania and uses WordPress as its content management system. My contributions to centralpennparent.com include the design, front-end, and back-end development of the website. This includes a custom built theme, extensive use of custom post types for specialized content, custom built WordPress plugins, development of a web app that analyzes PA school data, payment integration with Authorize.net, stability improvements using AWS, automation of newsletter sending, and much more. I also handled the migration of the website from a proprietary CMS to WordPress.

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Best Companies Group

Best Companies Group is an international research service that identifies companies who are superior in workplace excellence. Best Companies Group includes a central hub website (bestcompaniesgroup.com) and more than 50 program websites (such as bestplacestoworkinpa.com). My contributions include part of the frontend and backend development on bestcompaniesgroup.com and the program websites. This includes building out the infrastructure for the sites, taking advantage of modern tools and services like let’s encrypt to reduce costs and streamline new site roll out, setting up a registration and checkout process using Gravity Forms, building a middleware piece that converts and saves WordPress post data to PDF, and more.

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Central Penn Business Journal

The Central Penn Business Journal website is an award-winning business news resource that runs on a proprietary content management system called Saxotech. My contributions to cpbj.com include integrations that use a third-party email service API, implementation of the ad system, custom landing pages, general maintenance and bug fixes.

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NJBIZ

The NJBIZ website is the top business news resource in New Jersey, and runs on a proprietary content management system called Saxotech. My contributions to njbiz.com include integrations that use a third-party email service API, implementation of the ad system, custom landing pages, general maintenance and bug fixes.

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Lehigh Valley Business

The Lehigh Valley Business website is the premier business news resource for Lehigh Valley PA, and runs on a proprietary content management system called Saxotech. My contributions to lvb.com include integrations that use a third-party email service API, implementation of the ad system, custom landing pages, general maintenance and bug fixes.

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Sending Platform for GetResponse

Sending Platform for GetResponse is an open source plugin that I released to the WordPress repository. This plugin works as middleware piece between WordPress and the email service GetResponse. It allows a page in WordPress to be sent as an email to a contact list in GetResponse. This plugin was developed out of a need in the publishing industry to streamline and automate the newsletter sending process.

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All About Brownies

All About Brownies is a company based in York, PA that strives to make the best brownies of all time. I built and designed their website in 2013. This included setting up a PayPal based checkout system and e-commerce solution.

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A Bit About Me

Let me introduce myself

I am a 27 year old full stack web developer living in Wrightsville PA. I currently work for BridgeTower Media, developing and managing a variety of publication and data service websites. Working with a variety of content managements systems, doing database migrations, configuring cloud-based servers, developing our company intranet, and building custom PHP web apps has allowed me to cultivate a diverse set of skills over the past 6 years.

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Experience

Over six years of experience working with:
PHP JavaScript Amazon Web Services HTML5 CSS3 JQuery Linux Apache Amazon Web Services LiteSpeed Web Server MySQL WordPress GIT SVN CLI LiteSpeed Web Server SharePoint SOAP/REST APIs Visual Basic Vagrant SOAP/REST APIs CDNs Photoshop Illustrator

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