Cory Fischer
corynospam@planetkodiak.com
www.planetkodiak.com/portfolio | www.linkedin.com/in/corywfischer

Summary

Over twenty years experience in the web and software development industry as an engineer, manager, full stack developer, and consultant. Over ten years experience in management and leadership roles that include hiring, training, mentoring, and planning. Worked with small businesses, NGOs, and Fortune 500 companies. Launched over 150 separate websites and over 300 projects including major enterprise application implementations, eCommerce, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, JavaScript Apps, Azure cloud, and web services.

Qualifications

• Leadership: experienced coach, team lead, and project manager with bias towards execution. Strong history in professional development planning, hiring, promoting, and creating new job families. Advanced at translating business concepts into technical solutions. Able to speak publicly and individually ranging from C-suite to entry level audiences.
• Planning: Agile with Scrum and Kanban; running sprint planning, backlog grooming, work breakdown; partner with Product & Program management to productize software and prioritize work; velocity tracking, Jira reporting.
• Architecture: systems and enterprise analysis to determine architectural roadmaps. Experienced at writing technical specifications, functional & non-functional specifications, system diagrams, integration, data flows, security reviews.
• Development: built many intricate apps with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Sass, LESS, RWD, AWD, Bootstrap. Developed many advanced back-end systems with PHP, WordPress, Drupal, JSP, Java, Node.js, ASP, VBScript, Bash, SQL, MySQL, Apache, NGINX, IIS, SQL Server, REST, and SOAP/SOA. SMS with Twilio and Mobile Commons. Web SSO, OpenID Connect with Auth0.
• Cloud: delivering on Azure with App Services, serverless Functions, static sites with storage accounts, Azure table storage, Azure DevOps/Azure Pipelines; Amazon S3 buckets; Pantheon WebOps.
• E-Commerce: extensive experience delivering merchandising, cart, checkout, and e-commerce marketing with WooCommerce, Oracle iStore, ECWID, osCommerce, and Magento. Enterprise integrations with TokenEx, Cybersource, WorldPay, Stripe, Braintree, ApplePay, Google Pay, and PayPal.
• Security: web security, WAF, PCI protection with SAQ compliance, PII protection, PAN Tokenization, SSL, encryption in transit & at rest, and PAN data flow through network.
• Open Source Contributions: WordPress plugin: Similar Posts Ontology and Drupal Module: Mini Blocks.

Work History and Education

Principal Software Development Engineer Lead (Dev Manager), World Vision US. Federal Way, WA. (2018–current)

• Leader of the software engineering team which develops primary websites, web apps, eCommerce, custom portal, CIAM, child sponsorship, and messaging platforms such as SMS.
• Architect of the digital systems across Apps, CRM, ERP, Marketing Automation, and web services.
• Increased digital revenue for five straight years by digitizing many offline marketing channels.
• Delivered the full digital experience for World Vision Chosen^tm product which transformed child sponsorship.
• Reduced engineering team's overall development process by over 70% through automation and process changes while simultaneously increasing code quality and improving work/life balance.
• After 8 years of scrum, successfully transitioned engineering team to Kanban.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Program Management to define digital products and roadmap. Break down ambiguity into shovel-ready work for developers.
• Lead planning and SDLC analysis through Jira, Confluence, and MS Office. Run sprint planning and other sprint ceremonies.
• Mentor Sr. Engineers into solutions architects.
• Recruit, interview, and hire developers; assist QA manager, TPM manager, and IT Director in recruiting. Create new job families such as Design Technologist.
• Manage partial digital budget with purchasing authority.

Owner/Developer, Freelance and Consulting, Planet Kodiak. (2001–Current)

• Started business to market my own websites. Quickly started taking clients ranging from small to medium-sized businesses, NGOs, and subcontracting to large companies.
• Served over 50 separate clients, providing services ranging from development of custom apps, portals, Drupal sites, WordPress sites, custom web apps; to technical writing; to consulting on marketing, SEO, analytics, security, and business process.
• Developed, marketed, and maintained massive website dedicated to the best selling computer game series www.myst5.com. Site sustained number one status on Google search results in the most important SEO terms through the series run.
• Technical writer for G2Crowd. Writing definitions for industry categories such as PaaS, SaaS, VCS, CI/CD, bug tracking, among many others. Categorize 100s of products into appropriate taxonomies.
• Developed massive Drupal implementation to create an Angie’s List competitor: LATCH.
• Open Source Contributions: WordPress plugin: Similar Posts Ontology and Drupal Module: Mini Blocks.

Application Architect, World Vision US. Federal Way, WA. (2012–2018)

• Architect all technical aspects of the digital marketing team. Work with Product and Program Management to convert business requirements into working technical solutions and contribute to the digital roadmap vision.
• Member of the leadership team.
• Pioneer of new processes and technologies into the organization.
• Architected the successful transition off of monolithic ERP, Oracle E-Business Suite, onto five new systems including CIAM (Auth0), payment gateway (Cybersource), CRM (Dynamics), financials (Netsuite), and product data (custom) for all web integrations.
• Saved the organization nearly half a million dollars a year by initially recommending and delivering WooCommerce as the primary eCommerce system while simultaneously improving our delivery times, site performance, and feature sets.
• Designed and developed custom Drupal distro for World Vision.
• Technical lead of Magento implementation overseeing coordination of technical teams in three companies across four countries and five states.

Senior Web Developer, World Vision US. Federal Way, WA. (2008–2012)

• Created custom CMS consisting of a comprehensive access control system, revision system, content workflow, drag-and-drop admin GUI, module extension system, and API using JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.
• Developed My World Vision project to integrate all donors account information and child sponsorship media (photos and videos) from hundreds of data sources across the world into a media aggregation portal using Drupal, Bamboo, iStore, and custom systems.
• Designed, developed, and lead the effort to convert Oracle iStore into RESTful eCommerce web services tier using Java, JSP, IIS, and Oracle with PL/SQL.
• Pioneered new technologies and processes into the organization including PHP, MySQL, WordPress, git, responsive web design, mobile first, web services, REST, Node.js, CI/CD, and CDNs.

Web Developer, Safeway Inc. Phoenix, AZ. (2005–2008)

• Hired to manage web applications for call-center but quickly promoted to write enterprise applications for broader back-office.
• Lead project as PM and lead engineer to build custom CRM system. Built with JavaScript, ASP, SQL Server, AD/LDAP, and IIS.
• Designed and developed Safeway's store locater tool with advanced searching capabilities.
• Developed custom employee knowledge management tool containing employee info, interaction logs, surveys, tests/quizzes, assessments, career development tracking, acknowledgments, attendance, job performance measurements, schedules, compliance, and detailed reporting of all encompassing data. Built with an access control system integrated into Active Directory. Built with JavaScript, ASP, VBscript, JScript, SQL Server, PHP, AD/LDAP, and IIS.
• Member of leadership team. Coach for junior developers. Given hiring authority.

Bank Teller and CSR, Columbia Bank, Auburn, WA. (2004 – 2005)

Swing Manager, McDonalds, Orting WA. (2001 – 2004)

Two-year Career Diploma, Web Design, Penn Foster College, Scranton, PA. (2002 – 2004)