Thomas J Belknap

HP/LAMP/WordPress Developer

Certifications/Skills/Qualifications

• WordPress, bbPress and WordPress MU
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) developer
• AJAX programming and third-party API’s (Technorati, Google, Sphere, del.icio.us, etc.)
• CSS, XHTML and Standards-Compliance
• Search Engine Optimization
• XML/XSLT
• Internationalization, localization, multi-lingual sites
• JavaScript
• Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, ImageReady, Acrobat)
• Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash
• JHTML, ATG Dynamo development environment. Basic Java.
• UNIX/Linux Command-line, Samba and PuTTY.
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server: Deploying, Installing and Maintaining
• CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ Certification

Current Projects

Christian Science Monitor Blogs

Contract
Contract Developer

• Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com) is currently developing WordPress MU blogs, to be released in the near future.
• My role has been developing plugins for back-end functionality such as content management
• Development work done remotely, with packages being delivered and installed by me.  I have been granted FTP access to the servers and site-admin level access to the blogs for this purpose.
• Content management includes creating custom upload fields for the post writing screen of WPMU’s GUI. A generic set of admin-configurable fields is installed on each new blog, and if necessary, each blog can have it’s own set of admin-configured fields. Uploads are stored in a custom-defined area on the server, outside the normal file locations for WPMU and changes the names to the Monitor standards.
• A function was also required that would allow the assets to be recalled within the page template where they wanted them to go. The idea is to allow journalists to provide the needed content without also having to place it within the article in required areas, thereby maintaining some consistency to the layout of the blogs.

KODAK.com

02/07 - Present
Web Tech

• Corporate website driven by a proprietary platform built on ATG Dynamo.
• My primary function is stitching together creative elements such as photos, Flash animations and illustrations provided by the marketing team and third-party partners with a combination of JHTML, CSS, XML, and JavaScript. Creative typically involves a “composition” created in PhotoShop, from which I extract approved images and all of the basic layout proportions. The creative package also includes any required Flash files.
• Duties require many “project management” skills, including balancing several projects at once, setting and meeting all expected deadlines; communicating requirements and statuses to non-technical people and generally communicating with a wide variety of departments whose purview my changes affect.

Primary KODAK.com projects:

• The KODAK Gift Guide. This US-only site is a seasonal promotion “sitelet” that drives new sales leads for the KODAK Store. Layout is provided as stated above, with all structural design done by me. My portion primarily done with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Promotions on this site change weekly, especially through the holiday season.
• The multi-national Consumer Digital home page (change country at the top to see the multi-lingual content). Promotions change on a monthly-basis, with occasional additional promotions in the left hand navigation area, across all sites in all countries where KODAK sells products.
• The Page One Project, which involved moving the camera and printer pages to their own subdomains, printers.Kodak.com and cameras.Kodak.com. These sites are in turn also subject to internationalization for commerce countries GB, DE, NL, and FR.

HolisticNetworking.Net

04/00 - Present
Developer/Owner

• This webspace is largely my development environment along with my resume
• Currently driven by WordPress MU in much the same way that DFE is.
• This blog is dedicated to dissecting the WordPress MU code base and documenting its features and functions. I also provide my final products as plugins and hacks for the benefit of the community.

Other Professional Experience

• Sutherland Global Services ~ Designed and maintained my team’s website, which was a highly-dynamic repository of all technical, procedural and warranty information for the OEM PC manufacturer our account supported. Primarily static HTML with Flash and JavaScript functions.
• Transcend Medical Services ~ Designed and maintained the server support group’s knowledge base, which was a SharePoint portal, in addition to creating a PHP customer lookup database.