Ryan Kinal
100 E. St. Clair St.
Warren, PA 16365
716.581.1000
ryan.kinal@gmail.com

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Ryan Kinal

Web Developer

Contact

100 E. St. Clair St.
Warren, PA 16365
716.581.1000
ryan.kinal@gmail.com

Profile

Programmer, web developer, and site designer with experience in team-based and large project development. Independent worker; flexible programmer; quick learner; excellent communicator. Studies at SUNY Geneseo provided a solid theoretical background in computer science.

Skillset

Languages

  • ASP.NET
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • (X)HTML
  • XML
  • VB.NET

Operating Systems

  • Linux/Unix
  • MacOS
  • Windows

Software

  • Adobe Suite
  • Apache2
  • Expression Engine
  • Microsoft Office
  • MySQL
  • phpBB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Subversion

Technologies

  • AJAX/XMLHttpRequest
  • Cross-Browser Support
  • JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
  • jQuery
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • PDO
  • Smarty Templates

Employment

Web Developer

- McKissock, LP (5/10 to present)
Hired on as a web developer in an ASP.NET environment, largely for front-end development, but involved in some server-side items as well. Responsible for constructing pages, as well as analyzing existing code for SEO.

JavaScript Specialist

- Ivory Tower Group (4/07 to 10/07)
Part of the development team for the Event Strategy Group event management system (working title: LUMI). Included front-end development with DOM scripting and dynamic HTML, communication with the server via normal page loads and XMLHttpRequest and JSON, backend work in PHP and SQL.

Technical Support

- Sutherland Global Services (10/06 to 4/07)
Provided technical support to Answers by Gateway customers via telephone. Demonstrated strong communcation skills; ability to instruct customers on how to solve their hardware and Microsoft Windows issues; and documented the provided support effectively.

CIT Multimedia Assistant

- SUNY Geneseo (9/01 to 5/06)
Performed routine maintenance on various multimedia hardware. Supported faculty in the classroom, demonstrating interpersonal skills with faculty, students, and other employees. Trained employees in necessary skills.

Freelance

Independent Contractor

- Self Employed (6/09 to present)
Hired for small projects with various clients, from individuals to web design and development firms. Largely involved in front-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, creating sites from scratch, though some back-end PHP development was required.

Designer and Developer

- InternU (3/09 to present)
One of the two professional developers involved in creating and maintaining skinnywater.com, as well as maintaining ibuzz.gointernu.com, and other websites contracted by InternU. Works well in an extreme development format with a limited timeline, gained experience with Expression Engine and jQuery.

Interface Designer/Developer

- CatchPhrase Games (6/04 to 1/09)
Demonstrated ability to work in a team that is spread over a large geographic area, as well as the ability to work independently on specific areas of a large project using object-oriented web programming techniques.

Lead Developer

- Retireze.com (8/06 to 12/07)
Created a functional website to aid in retirement planning based on client's site design and mathematical model. Implemented these requirements in a test environment, made changes as the client requested, and moved the site to a live server.

References

Available on request