John LaPointe

The website was completely redeveloped and designed to be more user-friendly and faster to access critical resources, with a complete overhaul of the resource manager.

The most time-consuming part of the development was coming up with a way to organize their large library of resources with advanced filtering when searching.

I redeveloped a WordPress website and reorganized content based on a new design delivered to me via Figma. I was responsible for the full development, creating the front end in Bootstrap. I also used Advanced Custom Fields for advanced content editing on each page, including the management of different content types like newsletters, publications, videos, and their different product pages.

There is a cost estimator form on the Bioreference.com website that allows to enter their personal data and get back a cost estimate for a lab test. My job was to take that HTML table of data that was returned and add a "print or email" functionality that allowed the client to have the results printed or emailed. Using PHP and the FPDF library, I was able to generate a nice PDF summary of the cost estimation results that would either prompt the client to print or allow the client to enter an email to have the PDF estimate emailed to them.

I developed this to allow clients to search for lab tests by test code, test name, or CPT code. The page consisted of a form that allowed clients to enter text and PHP code for using the user-entered data to search for the corresponding tests using a company-built API that returned test results. Then the client could click on a test to see the full details for any test.

Developed new websites for popular international alcohol brands such as White Claw, Mike's Hard Lemonade, and Bearface Whiskey. The websites included all the international websites for White Claw (www.whiteclaw.com), Bearface Whiskey (www.bearfacewhisky.com), Mike's Hard Lemonade (www.mikeshard.com), Cayman Jack (www.caymanjack.com), Glendalough Whiskey (us.glendaloughdistillery.com), Freed Earth Tea (www.freedearthtea.com), and Mike's Lemonade Seltzer (/www.mikeshardseltzer.com.)

Developed a starter theme in Bootstrap 4 with a foundation for building a huge event management web application using the Tessitura Network API. I integrated logins, password resets, account creations, and event registrations into WordPress.

Worked on a 3-month contract to redevelop and simplify a 1,000+ page WordPress website for Vancouver-based Maximizer CRM. The tasks involved creating a new Bootstrap 4 theme based on a new design, setting up the site to use the WP Bakery visual editor and redoing all the pages to work with it, reorganizing the content and assets, removing the obsolete Blade templating engine from the core, and recreating all their sale and lead pages using Gravity Forms, various APIs, and custom functions.

Worked onsite as the lead developer for four months developing new websites for the Rogers Communications’ Cityfone line of websites, including www.cityfone.net and www.simplyconnect.ca.
My duties involved front-end development using Bootstrap 4 for converting design files to responsive templates and employing jQuery at an advanced level. I also completed the back-end development using PHP, Ajax, an Oracle database, and the ExpressionEngine CMS. I created a very advanced 1-page app that allowed visitors to select phone plans and up to two different devices while fetching pricing deals and bonus offers from the database. The result can be seen at www.cityfone.net/solution_builder.

The purpose of this project was to allow administrators to add new bricks to the Historic Horseshoe on campus with people's names and inscriptions. A website viewer could search by name or inscription to find the brick.