Jason Funk

Iowa, United States

Member since June 12, 2015

Jason is an experienced web developer with a broad range of both professional and personal technical achievements. He is the founder of Tough Space Consulting, a cloud-based business software consulting company that has helped a number of clients become more efficient and save money by improving their internal business processes. Jason is a strong team player yet at the same time enjoys taking on personal challenges.

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Portfolio

Tough Space Consulting / Independent Freelancing
PHP, JavaScript, Responsive HTML
Palisade Systems
PHP, HTML, JavaScript, C
Iowa State University
C, C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

PHP, 8 years
JavaScript, 8 years
WordPress, 4 years
HTML, 8 years
CSS, 8 years
Laravel, 3 years
React.js, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

OS X, Linux, Atom, Vim, Git, Terminal

The most amazing...

...and useful website I've made acts as a proxy between iCloud Calendars and Google Calendars to allow iCloud Calendar events to appear on a Google Calendar.

Employment

Founder/Consultant
Tough Space Consulting / Independent Freelancing
2012 - PRESENT
- Developed and maintained a number of internal applications for one of the largest orthodontic practices in the USA.
- Took over the development and maintenance of a SaaS platform for HVAC management software.
- Developed and supported a SaaS platform for the management of technicians for a rapid prototyping machine repair company.
- Developed and marketed a premium WordPress plugin that enables users to easily run content experiments on their websites.
- Developed, maintained, and supported a sales-channel news blog based in New York City.
Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, Responsive HTML
Software Engineer
Palisade Systems
2009 - 2012
- Developed and maintained PacketSure, a network based data loss prevention solution.
- Designed and implemented ComplainceSafe, a SaaS product for email-based data-loss prevention.
- Assisted in supporting customer base via phone and email correspondence.
Technologies: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, C
Intern
Iowa State University
2007 - 2008
- Assisted in the development and maintenance of systems for Iowa State University; including their online account management utility.
- Rewrote a large portion of Iowa State's network enforcement application which monitors low level network traffic for spam or abuse and takes corrective action.
Technologies: C, C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Experience

Guru Business Suite (Development)
http://www.gurubizsuite.com
A suite of applications that I've built or assisted in building for orthodontics to manage and grow their practices.
ThermoGrid (Development)
http://www.thermogrid.org
I took over the development and maintenance of ThermGrid at the beginning of 2015. Since starting, I've added a number of enhancements to the software including storing job site photos, adding signatures to invoices, and an entire call tracking and dispatching system.
WP Experiments (Development)
http://wpexperiments.com
WP Experiments is a premium WordPress plugin that allows users to run content experiments (also known as A/B tests) directly from their WordPress dashboard.
Title Experiments Free (Development)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-experiments-free/
Title Experiments Free is a free WordPress plugin that I maintain that allows blog authors to write multiple titles for a single blog post. The plugin then experiments with those titles to figure out which one the audience reacts best towards.
Tough Space (Development)
http://tough.space
My companies own website. Built with October, a new PHP CMS that focuses on the developer.
The 2112 Group (Development)
http://the2112group.com
The 2112 Group is a business strategy firm based in New York. I've worked with them for a number of years on development and support of their website.
iCal to gCal (Development)
http://icaltogcal.com
icaltogcal.com is a calendar proxy that allows iCloud calendar events to be added to a Google calendar account. Apple currently blocks Google calendar from accessing a user's public events. This proxy solves the problem. It isn't the most complicated project I've ever built but with over 15,000 calendars being proxied, it is the most popular.
OCR Text Extraction (Other amazing things)
https://github.com/jasonlfunk/ocr-text-extraction
This is an implementation of a PHD thesis that I found that attempted to pre-process images to remove background textures from text before passing through an OCR system. While the implementation didn't work as well as hoped, it was a fun experiment.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, PHP, SQL, CSS, Less, HTML5, SCSS, HTML, Python, Ruby
Platforms
WordPress, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
Storage
MySQL
Misc
Custom WordPress, Restler, Lumen
Frameworks
Laravel, Django, AngularJS
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React.js
Tools
Sublime Text 3, Terminal, Git, Vim
Paradigms
Behavior-driven Development (BDD), REST, Test-driven Development (TDD)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa
2004 - 2008

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