- Founder/Consultant2012 - PRESENTTough Space Consulting / Independent Freelancing
- 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 Engineer2009 - 2012Palisade Systems
- 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 - Intern2007 - 2008Iowa State University
- 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
Jason Funk
Iowa, LA, 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.
Jason is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Tough Space Consulting / Independent FreelancingPHP, JavaScript, Responsive HTML
- Palisade SystemsPHP, HTML, JavaScript, C
- Iowa State UniversityC, C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Experience
- CSS, 8 years
- PHP, 8 years
- HTML, 8 years
- JavaScript, 8 years
- WordPress, 4 years
- Laravel, 3 years
- React, 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
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)
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
- LanguagesPHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, HTML5, CSS, SCSS, Less, Python, Ruby
- PlatformsWordPress, Linux, Mac OS, Windows
- StorageMySQL
- FrameworksLaravel, Django, AngularJS, Lumen
- Libraries/APIsjQuery, React
- ToolsSublime Text 3, Terminal, Vim Text Editor, Git
- ParadigmsBehavior-driven Development (BDD), REST, Test-driven Development (TDD)
- OtherRestler
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering2004 - 2008Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa
