30210 Hazy Mills Ln.Spring, TX 77386Phone: 832-875-3422Email: adam.lacoste@hotmail.comAdam LacosteWork HistoryHearst CorporationHouston, TXMay 2012—PresentSenior Developer, WCM Team; Solutions Engineer, DevOps Team; Release Manager, DevOps TeamAssumed role as Build Master in a nascent DevOps initiative, responsible for the curation, maintenance and deployment of WCM software to QA/staging and production environmentsDeveloped and maintained scripts responsible for deploying code to testing and production environments, initially in Bash shell and later ported into object-oriented PHP.Planned and executed a transition from SVN to Git, defining new development and deployment processes in addition to training developers to use the new systemLater expanded into Release Manager role, acting as shepherd for WCM software releases and coordinating the efforts of development, QA and DevOps.Self-managed a project to develop an internal application for managing a prioritized backlog of tasks, built on Node.js and CouchDBDeveloped new features and fixed defects in the WCM content management system, a PHP application which supports all Hearst Corporation newspaper property web sitesWaste ManagementHouston, TXOctober 2011—May 2012Web Development Analyst III, UI TeamMaintained and enhanced a mature, enterprise-level e-commerce website serving over 1 million customers monthly as part of a tightly integrated front end team of UI developers and UX designersDiagnosed and resolved front end quality defects (HTML, CSS, jQuery/Javascript) in high volume and under tight time constraintsPerformed iterative enhancement of website presentational and user experience features in close cooperation with UX designersUtilized cutting edge web development technologies and methodologies such as Node.js, LESS and html5shiv2nd.MDHouston, TXAugust 2011—October 2011Senior Application DeveloperDeveloped new application features including a user dashboard, unified inbox and conference calling system implementing TwilioRefactored, streamlined and reorganized code at every level of the application: MySQL queries, PHP models and controllers, HTML views and jQuery scriptingDesigned and drafted a set of coding standards to improve the quality and maintainability of the technology team's code baseAlert Logic, Inc.Houston, TXJanuary 2010—August 2011PHP Developer, UI TeamMaintained a highly complex user interface incorporating PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS through debugging, refactoring and proactive enhancement of massive codebaseDeveloped new features to meet customer demands and emerging trends, threats and opportunities in the network security fieldOptimized code processes to scale with heavy load conditions, reducing a 16 hour process to 4 hours without any loss of functionality in one notable caseActed as 24/7 on-call troubleshooter for all live environment UI components, handling critical issues that arose and overseeing scheduled and emergency software roll-outsCu