PROFILE
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Laverdure, Luc
Technical Consultant
contact@LucLaverdure.com

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http://LucLaverdure.com
http://github.LucLaverdure.com
http://stackoverflow.LucLaverdure.com
http://linkedin.LucLaverdure.com

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EDUCATION
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    Certified technician analyst/programmer
    Cégep de l'Outaouais
    Gatineau, QC, CA
    Computer science, Programmer branch
    2004 to 2007
    Awarded Year: 2007

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WORK EXPERIENCE
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    Technical Consultant
    05 2019 to Now
    Infosys
    Ottawa, ON, CA
    Experiences and Skills acquired while on the job:

	I provide insights on technical matters, on the Drupal platform, in PHP (backend).
	I also code in SaSS, JS, HTML and CSS (frontend technologies) to implement visual designs.
	I also ensure site accessibility
	Please see below detailed information on technologies used.

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    Web Developer, Technical Lead, Technical Solutions Architect, International Teacher
    06 2009 to 08 2019
    RealDecoy
    Ottawa, ON, CA
    Experiences and Skills acquired while on the job:

	During my time at RealDecoy: I developed Websites. I've lead development teams. I've architected solutions. I've teached technologies internationally.
	Please see below detailed information on technologies used.
	
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AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
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	Hacking Health Ottawa 06 2019
	Hackathon at Shopify
	People's Choice Award

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	Student President 01 2006 to 01 2007 
	Collège de l’Outaouais
	Elected by students

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KNOWLEDGE ON TECHNOLOGIES
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	CMS: Drupal, Wordpress, Magento
	Frontend: HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript
	Backend: PHP, Java, .Net
	Tools: Git, Office, Jira
	Databases: Mysql, Endeca, Elastic Search
	Frameworks: Bootstrap, jQuery, AngularJS
	Concepts: Ajax, Analytics, MVC, Sorting, Responsive, CORS
	OS:	Linux (Mint, Ubuntu, Kali, Debian, CentOS, Arch), Windows Desktop, Windows Server

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TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
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	Architecture Planification: 
	- Disaster recovery planning and testing

	Bug Tracking:
	- Mantis
	- Jira

	Frontend Implementations: 
	- Taking a design (Photoshop, Adobe XD or Invision) and implementing it in CSS and HTML
	- Responsive development (To make Website work in mobile/tablet/desktop)
	- Javascript implementaions, frameworks (Angular, jQuery)
	- Developped compatible pages for all major 
	- W3C valid HTML
	- Ajax implementations (Modifications of page without a full page load)
	- Development of custom UI elements

	Backend Implementations: 
	- Pure PHP integrations
	- Authentication systems (Azure / PHP with blowfish encryption / Active Directory )
	- Upgraded single language websites to multi language 
	- Scheduled integrations (Cron Jobs)
	- Fixing encoding issues (Fixing odd characters appearing on a page, often due to French accents; i.e. Fixed with iconv for Latin1 to UTF-8)
	- Web Forms
	- Search optimizations within site
	- SEO: Search engine optimizations for external crawlers (i.e. Google, Bing)

	CMS Implementations: 
	- Making static pages into dynamic pages (Creating custom fields for admin user to modify site without the need of a developer)
	- Drupal 7 & 8: Creating views, templates, modules
	- Wordpress 4 & 5: Creating blocks, templates, plugins, Advanced Custom Fields, Gutenberg custom blocks
	- Magento: Multiple store fronts &  inventories
	- BBPress: Forums implementaions
	
	Data Integrations:
	- Dashboards development to visualize data and statistics with Highcharts JS / D3 JS
	- Web Scraping to fetch data (wget/custom)
	- Migration of data (with AWS / ETL / custom scripts)
	- Baselines monitoring
	- Data ingestion
	- Data extraction
	- Data transformation
	- Data storage
	- Data backups (Files & Database)
	- Data sanitization
	- Data clustering
	- Multithreaded integrations
	- Background processing
	
	Source Versioning:
	- Git knowledge
	- SVN knowledge
	
	APIs:
	- BambooHR
	- Google Maps
	- Google Analytics
	
	Tools:
	- SSH
	- Bash / Shell / CMD / CLI
	- AWS (EC2)

	Payment Implementations:
	- Discreet implementations of financial data
	- Stripe integrations
	- Paypal integrations

	Documentation:
	- Through microsoft office

	Servers Integrations:
	- Virtual Machines to contain all app servers/code/data
	- Docker to replace virtual machines
	- Tomcat/Websphere for java applications
	- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin) for PHP applications

	Security:
	- Can protect against SQL Injections
	- Can protect against XSS Injections
	- Can project against DDOS attacks
	
	Teaching:
	- Hosted multiple Lunch & Learns to share knowledge
	- I have multiple webinars that can be found on the Web
	
	Security Clearance:
	- Secret