Web Application Developer for Marketing Department
2019 - 2021Living Church of God- Helped the head of the marketing department refine the marketing strategy for the worldwide organization and identify, prioritize, and implement high-leverage marketing and optimization projects.
- Rebuilt and optimized the organization's key order funnel.
- Optimized the flow and conversion rate for the organization's most important contact form.
- Used an agile development process to build a custom online learning platform.
Technologies: Digital Marketing Strategy, Agile Software Development, Landing Page Optimization, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), JavaScript, Laravel, OpenID Connect (OIDC)Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2019Pynora- Identified requirements for a minimum viable product and planned the application architecture.
- Provided advice on the technologies and tools that would best fit the project's requirements.
- Helped manage and perform code reviews for an off-shore development team.
Technologies: Architecture, Strategic Planning, Agile Software DevelopmentSenior Web Application Developer
2012 - 2017Oregon Department of Administrative Services- Designed and built a single sign-on identity and access management system for 40,000 employees in more than 80 separate organizations based on IdentityServer4, OpenID Connect, and a custom group management application. This system resolved numerous security issues, reduced development time for new applications, improved the experience of users, and saved up to three million dollars in costs per year compared to alternative solutions.
- Worked with product owners to gather requirements for rewriting a sizable back-office WebForms application. Used a lightweight approach that resulted in a collection of system context diagrams and user stories. Used an agile process to refine requirements while building a minimum viable product and then added features to this base product based on the customer's priorities. Led a small development team to implement the design using microservices, ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and continuous integration.
- Developed a mobile-first, responsive web interface for an online time entry and approval application used by more than 20,000 employees and helped integrate it with the legacy mainframe payroll system via web services.
- Performed life cycle and security analysis for a portfolio of over 30 applications built with more than half a dozen technology stacks. Identified moderate to critical security and sustainability risks and helped create documents and visuals used by the CIO to communicate the nature and scope of the identified risks to upper management.
- Managed several Windows and Linux web and database servers.
- Used Azure services for the rapid deployment of a proof-of-concept business intelligence portal.
- Provided technical leadership for all other developers and training and oversight for the junior developers.
- Initiated and succeeded in an effort to reunify the web development team and reconcile them with management after a rift between management and staff destroyed morale.
Technologies: Apache, IIS, Linux, Windows Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, Git, OpenID, Azure, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, C#Web Designer | Developer | Technology Consultant
2008 - 2013Freelance Work- Converted Photoshop designs into pixel-perfect responsive layouts for content management systems.
- Designed and created websites and web applications for clients.
- Gave advice to companies, nonprofit organizations, and individuals on the selection, design, and implementation of web-based application solutions.
- Developed tools to parse Wiktionary and compute the probability of equivalent meanings in order to create wordnets for 83 languages. Coauthored a Natural Language Processing research paper describing the methodology and results of the project and released the wordnets under an open source license. This project helped kickstart the further development of wordnets in several new languages and encouraged the release of new and existing wordnets under open source licenses.
Technologies: Drupal, MODx, MySQL, PHP, CSS, HTMLApplication Specialist
2008 - 2012Oregon State Data Center- Provided advice to management, supervisors, and coworkers in the planning of new features to be implemented in the data center's customer portal, ticket tracking, and asset management systems.
- Designed and built modules, forms, and workflows for web-based applications used by staff and customers.
- Designed, built, and released open-source plugins required for the data center’s asset management system.
Technologies: Linux, Apache, Joomla, Drupal, CSS, HTML, MySQL, Perl, PHPConsultant
2010 - 2010American Eagle Outfitters- Integrated an IT asset discovery system with a configuration management system used to track tens of thousands of devices.
Technologies: Linux, MySQL, PHPTeacher
2003 - 2008Volunteer Teacher | Substitute Teacher- Taught English, leadership, public speaking, and many other subjects.
- Supervised volunteer teachers.
- Developed curriculum.
Ryan Foster
Full-stack Developer in Charlotte, NC, United States
Member since March 5, 2018
Ryan is a full-stack growth engineer who specializes in building high-performance websites and web applications and solving complex web security issues. He can also help you identify high-leverage opportunities for growth, create and optimize advertising campaigns, create and optimize landing pages and websites, set up and optimize automated email marketing sequences, create online courses, and write ad copy, landing page copy, website copy, and email campaigns.
Ryan is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Living Church of GodDigital Marketing Strategy, Agile Software Development...
- PynoraArchitecture, Strategic Planning, Agile Software Development
- Oregon Department of Administrative ServicesApache, IIS, Linux, Windows Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server...
Experience
- JavaScript 13 years
- C# 8 years
- OpenID Connect (OIDC) 5 years
- Agile Software Development 4 years
- Conversion Rate 2 years
- Marketing Strategy 2 years
- Svelte 1 year
- Copywriting 1 year
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, VS Code, Linux, Windows
The most amazing...
...system I've developed is a web-based OpenID Connect identity and access management solution used by 40,000 employees.
Employment
Experience
- Access and Identity Management Solution
Designed and built a single sign-on identity and access management system with .NET Core, IdentityServer4, and OpenID Connect.
- ePayroll
Developed a mobile-first, responsive web interface for an online time entry and approval application in .NET MVC and helped integrate it with the legacy mainframe payroll system via web services. Later upgraded the system to .NET Core.
- Back-office Web Application
Rewrote a sizable back-office WebForms application using microservices, ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and continuous integration.
- Hash Iteration Calculatorhttps://github.com/openidauthority/HashIterationCalculator
Created a simple open-source tool to help people tune the ASP.NET identity settings for their hardware.
- Getapassphrase.comhttps://getapassphrase.com/
Created a passphrase generator in JavaScript that creates grammatically correct nonsense phrases that are millions of times stronger than normal passwords.
- Protect Your Online Identity with Great Passwords
Created a training course on password security to replace common myths with solid advice.
- Language-learning Website
Designed and created a beta version of a language-learning website with PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL. Includes language auto-detect feature and various tools for learning vocabulary.
- CSS 3D Web Bookhttps://openidauthority.com/portfolio/projects/webbook/index.html
Created a responsive and interactive book entirely with CSS animations (no JavaScript). The original version was also a progressive web app.
- Clean Form Elementshttps://openidauthority.com/portfolio/projects/cleanformelements/demo/demo.html
Created a CSS stylesheet for styling form elements as an alternative to Bootstrap-style markup and Material Design flatness.
- Pixel-perfect Layouts
Converted Photoshop designs to pixel-perfect HTML and CSS layout for Vertical Thought Magazine, Britten Motorcycle Company, Surreal Hair and Beauty, and many others.
- CMS-backed Websites
Created CMS-backed websites with MODX, HTML, and CSS for Mahonia Vineyard, Sound Bytes Reading, AER Fitness, and many others.
- WordNet Research Paperhttp://aclweb.org/anthology/P13-1133
Co-authored a paper on natural language processing.
Skills
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, C#, HTML, SQL, HTML5, CSS, ECMAScript (ES6), TypeScriptFrameworks
ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, .NET, ASP.NET Web API, OAuth 2, Svelte, LaravelLibraries/APIs
REST APIs, jQuery, LINQ, OpenID, VueParadigms
Database Design, Progressive Enhancement, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web UI Design, Agile Software Development, Web Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Azure DevOps, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)Other
APIs, Architecture, Authentication, Authorization, Full-stack, Content Management Systems (CMS), Back-end Development, Front-end Development, Writing & Editing, English, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Data Modeling, Technical Writing, Marketing Strategy, Copywriting, Landing Pages, SSG, API Integration, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), RESTful Microservices, Headless Software, Digital Marketing Strategy, Landing Page Optimization, Strategic Planning, Conversion Rate, Email Marketing, AWSTools
VS Code, Git, GitHub, Visual Studio, Apache, GitLabPlatforms
MODx, Linux, DigitalOcean, WordPress, Windows, Windows Server, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)Industry Expertise
IT SecurityStorage
MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server
Education
- Master of Arts Degree in Teaching2002 - 2003Willamette University - Salem, OR, USA
- Bachelor of Science Degree in History1997 - 2002Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR, USA
