Michelangelo van Dam - Zend Certified Engineer

PHP / Zend Framework consulting services and web application development for enterprises, mid-sized companies and sohos.

• project management
• development lead
• functional and technical analysis
• scalability and performance tuning
• PHPUnit testing
• PHP application development
• code revision
• migrating PHP 4 applications to PHP 5
• giving in-house training courses for
  • Zend Framework
  • Zend Studio for Eclipse (ZSE)
  • Zend Platform
  • Version and Release Management with Subversion
  • PHPUnit testing
  • Continuous Integration
• customization of e-Commerce platforms
  • Magento
  • PrestaShop
  • osCommerce
• guest speaker
  • TEK 11 (Chicago, IL, USA) - Conference Session
  • Confoo 2011 (Montreal, Canada) - Conference Session
  • ZendCon 2010 (San Jose, CA, USA) - Conference Session
  • PHPNW 2010 (Manchester, UK) - Conference Session
  • ZendCon 2009 (San Jose, CA, USA) - Uncon Session
  • PHPNW 2009 (Manchester, UK) - Conference Session
  • Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (Amsterdam, NL) - Conference Session
  • PHP|tek 2009 (Chicago, IL, USA) - Uncon Session
• publications
  • column writer - PHP|Architect Magazine May 2011
  • article writer - PHP|Architect Magazine Mar. 2011
  • column writer - PHP|Architect Magazine Feb. 2011

Recent work involved:

• architecture of Zend Framework applications on Windows Azure (cloud)
• lead development on an app for police units to
  • enforce speed restrictions
  • detect stolen vehicles
  • measure speed on trajectories
  • automatic inventory of heavy traffic/dangerous products in tunnels
• implementation of traffic density measurement systems (Zend Framework)
• implementing LDAP/Active Directory authentication module with ACL (Zend Framework)
• creating a device monitoring application (Zend Framework)
• building a multi-message merger (Zend Framework)
• creating a translator adapter with database storage (Zend Framework)
• building a Rules Engine (Zend Framework)
• creating a message queuer on a memcache backend (Zend Framework)
• creating a single sign-on (SSO) webservice (Zend Framework)

As an expert on Zend Framework application development, I provide on-line training courses for php|architect:

• Essential Zend Framework training courses for PHP|Architect
• Professional Zend Framework Developer training courses for PHP|Architect

PHP web application development.

• development on mass-user web application

Recent work involved:

• development of mass user web applications
• PHPUnit Testing on code base and MVC compontents
• AJAXification of existing applications
• performance tuning Zend Framework apps

Macq NV hired my services for development of web applications to control their own build hardware, coaching and training of in house PHP development teams and to upgrade and improve their development processes.

• Implementation of Quality Assurance (QA) and testing platform
• Development of an application monitoring pump stations for tunnels
• Development of an application controlling road signs above highways
• Development of an application to control and manage speed enforcement equipment
• Implementation of version control, bug tracking, reporting and logging
• Interfacing with back-end systems and hardware drivers
• Integration of LDAP Single Sign On module

As IT consultant I work in-house on fixed-priced projects (Mobistar) or at the customer's location (Belgian Railways - NMBS/SNCB). These projects mainly are front-end interfaces for manipulating back-end systems, based upon the industry standard Zend Framework.

• installation and configuration of a complete development environment (LAMP)
• development of the PDF reports generated by Zend_PDF
• development of a LDAP connector accessible via Web Services
• technical analysis and lead development for a security intranet application
• development using Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns and Zend Framework
• AJAX interfaces with Yahoo UI Toolkit and EXTJS
• Test-Driven development with PHPUnit

As ICT Manager, I'm responsible for all ICT related issues on the 6 sites located on the outskirts of Brussels, from where this non-profit organization operates.

• project management on external development for integrated back-office application
• network architecture and design
• responsible for purchase and leasing contracts
• license management
• support and problem solving

Designing and developing mass user web applications and integration of third party/open source software packages for Belgiums secondary leading ISP.

• evaluation and integration of NetIQ's WebTrends Reporting Center
• partially designing and developing our customer services platform (myTelenet)
• developing various online tools for B2C purposes
• designing and integration of customer tools based on open source projects

Developing and maintaining web applications for their customers and integration of web services.

• Online shop for Adobe Europe (http://eurostore.adobe.com)
• Online reservations for Belvilla holliday houses (http://www.belvilla.nl)
• Maintenance of the KNSA website (http://www.knsa.be)

• maintenance of network for cyber café
• setting up game servers for online gaming

• development customer applications for digital media (CD-ROM and website)
• creation of the European award winning customer CD-ROM 12move.com
• building co-branded online and off line marketing projects

• providing support by phone to customers
• check remote services (POP3, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP)
• report network failures