James Higgins

Experience

1. Technical Project Manager

   Falcon Software Company Inc. September 2020 – present

   • Manage enterprise web projects delivered to the Government of British Columbia through Falcon's IBM partnership, owning scope, estimates, schedule and stakeholder reporting.
   • Led the development phase of the BritishColumbia.ca redesign and migration to WordPress, and now manage its ongoing feature and enhancement backlog.
   • Managed the redevelopment of HealthStream.com from scoping to launch, and continue to oversee its maintenance and enhancements.
   • Leading the redesign and WordPress build for the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan.
   • Provide fine-grained time and cost estimates, advise on code architecture and DevOps strategy, and direct UX and UI decisions with client stakeholders.
   • WordPress
   • Kentico
   • Sitefinity
   • Jira
   • Microsoft Azure
   • WP Engine
   • UnderStrap
   • Microsoft Teams

2. Technical Project Manager

   NativeAds July 2019 – May 2020

   • Managed web advertising projects end to end, including website builds, PPC funnels, landing pages and lead-generation systems, with detailed time and cost estimates for each.
   • Created and ran InvestorWebinars.com, a WordPress and WebinarJam platform that earned revenue from sponsored webinars syndicated as widgets on partner sites.
   • Managed the technical implementation of a private CPA network on the HasOffers/Tune platform, including conversion tracking through postbacks and pixels.
   • Led a company-wide initiative to build a knowledge base and introduce Git version control.
   • WordPress
   • PHP
   • Google Analytics
   • Monday.com
   • Git
   • Slack

3. Web Developer / Project Manager

   Ryders Eyewear November 2016 – November 2019

   • Took over a WordPress/WooCommerce store supporting roughly $1M in annual sales and reverse-engineered its automated build and deployment pipeline on Pantheon and Lando.
   • Introduced a Kanban workflow in Trello for scheduling and tracking development work.
   • Delivered feature requests covering third-party marketing and tracking tools, checkout changes and catalogue restructuring.
   • Produced MySQL reports for business analysis by stakeholders.
   • WordPress
   • WooCommerce
   • PHP
   • Pantheon
   • Lando
   • Docker
   • Git
   • MySQL
   • Gulp
   • Basecamp

4. Web Developer

   The Rand Group June 2017 – October 2018

   • Managed and developed the company's own sites, RandGroup.com and Dynamics101.com, and client sites including HoustonSymphony.org, itsolutions.bdo.ca and LSRetail.com for a Microsoft Dynamics solutions partner.
   • Built responsive front ends in Bootstrap 3 and 4, added multilingual support with WPML, and integrated marketing automation through ClickDimensions and Microsoft CRM.
   • Provided monthly maintenance, updates and cross-browser compatibility reporting.
   • WordPress
   • Microsoft CRM
   • Microsoft Azure
   • WPML
   • jQuery
   • Bootstrap 4
   • Asana

5. Web Developer

   Noble Pixels 2017 – 2018

   • Developed CMS interfaces for user stories across three production applications in an in-house Agile environment.
   • Created and modified REST API endpoints consumed by reusable Vue.js components.
   • Built admin reporting tables and interfaces using Eloquent ORM and raw SQL.
   • Laravel
   • Vue.js
   • MySQL
   • jQuery
   • Git

6. Developer

   Soulpepper March 2016 – March 2018

   • Managed and developed the agency's Magento store, RoderickAllan.com, and set up its Git deployment workflow on Beanstalk.
   • Integrated third-party stock data from Google Sheets into Magento with Magmi through a custom PHP cron job.
   • Wrote project proposals for prospective clients and worked alongside SEO, PPC and marketing specialists on campaign tracking.
   • Magento
   • PHP
   • MySQL
   • Beanstalk
   • Git

7. Independent Web Developer

   Self-employed (contract) 2013 – 2019

   • Delivered hourly and full-project contracts on the LAMP stack for agencies and direct clients.
   • Scoped and estimated projects with clients, advised on design, and carried them through to launch.
   • Built and maintained Magento, WordPress/WooCommerce and Shopify sites, including HornbyIsland.com for Ventureweb, a Magento build for Beautsense.ca and a Shopify build for HeadhunterSurf.com.
   • Set up stable development and deployment workflows for client projects.
   • PHP
   • WordPress
   • WooCommerce
   • Magento
   • Shopify
   • jQuery
   • MySQL
   • Git
   • Trello

Education

• Applied Web Development

  BCIT 2014

• BA, Philosophy

  University of British Columbia 2006 – 2010