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MICHAEL HINKSON

Las Vegas

Summary

Results-driven PHP Developer dedicated to building and optimizing user-focused websites for customers with various business objectives. Judicious and creative when crafting effective websites, apps and platforms to propel competitive advantage and revenue growth. Technically proficient and analytical problem solver with calm and focused demeanor.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Database Administrator

Engaged Nation
01.2022 - 05.2022
  • Streamlining and optimizing MySQL queries
  • Optimizing database entry procedures for new customer sites
  • Building PHP tools to facilitate data collection and transformation

Business Data Analyst

Reflex Media
12.2015 - 12.2018
  • Streamlining and optimizing the structure of our user databases
  • Mining customer data for useful insights for Marketing and Product Development teams
  • Providing data visualization tools to other departments so we can measure trends and notice problems
  • Designing and maintaining back-end systems for data migration, data modeling, and data extraction
  • Built data science department from ground up, eventually specializing in AI and data visualization
  • Worked with our development team to move from a monolithic application to a microservice-oriented architecture
  • Built all of the databases for each of the services and consulted on software best practices
  • Built tools to standardize packaging of user data for automated reports for both internal and external users

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Reflex Media
06.2009 - 04.2015
  • Overseeing and managing the systems for all of the company’s revenue producing websites, including: SeekingArrangement, WhatsYourPrice, MissTravel
  • Scaling the infrastructure to handle upwards of 40,000 simultaneous sessions per minute
  • Analyzing MySQL servers, and optimizing queries to decrease response time and server load
  • Writing automated support systems for infrastructure in BASH / PHP
  • Built and managed systems to support the explosive growth of the company; we grew from approximately $600,000 in revenue in 2009 to about $20,000,000 in 2015
  • We also ballooned from 4 to 50 employees
  • Designed and scaled infrastructure for all of Reflex Media’s websites
  • Reduced server response times to below 100ms by optimizing MySQL queries, designing a caching system (memcached + xcache), utilizing Sphinx for indexing, balancing all of the webserver load, and offloading secondary services like email to amazon (SeekingArrangement alone generates almost 2M emails each day)

Linux Systems Administration

Card Player Media
08.2008 - 05.2009

Lead Desktop Support Technician

Las Vegas Review Journal
12.2007 - 05.2008

Network Engineer, Technical Sales Analyst Team

Verifone, Inc
08.2004 - 06.2007

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

UNLV
Las Vegas, NV
06-2026

Skills

  • PHP development (Laravel, WordPress, Symfony)
  • Unit Testing (PHPUnit, Behat)
  • Javascript: VanillaJS, React, Vue, jQuery
  • CSS Frameworks: Bootstrap, Bulma, Tailwind
  • Code versioning using Git, Subversion
  • Agile development
  • Interface design
  • Website optimization
  • Continuous integration (Jenkins)
  • Data modeling and visualization
  • MySQL Administration / Query Optimization
  • PostgreSQL Administration / Query Optimization
  • NoSQL databases (Mongo, Cassandra, Redis)
  • Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
  • Web Server administration (Lighttpd, NGINX, Apache)
  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, SES, S3, SQS, SNS)

Timeline

Database Administrator

Engaged Nation
01.2022 - 05.2022

Business Data Analyst

Reflex Media
12.2015 - 12.2018

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Reflex Media
06.2009 - 04.2015

Linux Systems Administration

Card Player Media
08.2008 - 05.2009

Lead Desktop Support Technician

Las Vegas Review Journal
12.2007 - 05.2008

Network Engineer, Technical Sales Analyst Team

Verifone, Inc
08.2004 - 06.2007

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry

UNLV
MICHAEL HINKSON