Magento Developer based in Utah.

The requirement

Theoretically drop shipping offers enormous benefits for the online retailer in terms of inventory and cash flow management. My client wanted these benefits for three important product lines.

The key to making this happen was providing a smooth pathway through checkout for customers buying drop-ship products and seamless integration with the drop shipper in terms of transferring orders and getting fulfillment updates in return.

The requirement

The client hosted their Magento 1.13 site themselves and their preference was to utilize an integrated Payment Gateway extension. However, the costs associated with PCI compliance encouraged them to look at a hosted Payment Gateway solution. The requirement for this project was to optimize customer experience in checking out with a hosted solution – to make checkout as seamless as possible and, specifically, to avoid losing cart items when back-paging to Magento from the hosted payment page or when returning to the Magento failure page when card details were not accepted.

The problem

We wanted to optimize site-wide page load times as far as we could and the resulting customer experience. We were also cognizant of specific issues relating to load times for CMS pages, and the impact that merchandising by the ecommerce team in backend Admin was having on concurrent frontend page load times.

• Custom scripts to transition customers, products, reviews and gift card balances from Magento 1 to Magento 2.
• Providing on-the-fly picture framing for prints with JavaScript, so that customers can preview the final appearance of their purchase — here.
• Customized bundle products to show an image of the bundle selected in product view, cart drop down, cart and checkout
• SQL scripts including CRUD for product catalog, shipping prices maintenance, EAV attributes, quotes and orders.
• Enhancing Magento’s newsletter functionality including applying catalog purchases to subscribers by product type
• Multi-store instances including stores for specific product categories and customer groups

Here’s a synopsis of my work.

January 2017 to July 2021, I was Lead Magento Developer for ACH fulfillment in Utah. In 2018 this challenging role included the transition of 5 stores in the US, Australia and Europe from Magento 1 to 2. This involved a complete rewrite of themes and custom modules including complex product types and 'table rates' shipping methods.

A number of integrations included integrations with finance, shipping and the mobile app.

September 2014 to November 2016, I was Lead Magento Developer for the award winning Natural History Museum e-store in London. The store markets a diverse range of products world wide in behalf of this iconic British brand, including framed and canvas prints from the Wildlife Photography of the Year competition, one of the most prestigious photography contests in the world. The store was voted Small eCommerce Company of the Year at the UK ecommerce awards 2015, and Best Online Shop at the ACE awards 2016.

The range of work undertaken for the NHM e-store covers a number of the projects outlined on this site, including integration with REST and SOAP and complex customization of their Magento Enterprise 1.13 instance.

Prior Magento development spanning a period of almost 5 years from December 2011 has included development for a range of companies, large and small. I’ve also been a consultant for a number of companies including RAPP, ITNet and Mouchel.

Know-how: -

• Projects: Building complex modules with Magento 2.x and 1.x for products, catalog, checkout, admin, price rules, total collectors, payment gateways, shipping, export/ import, newsletter, transactional emails, design and layout, reporting and multiple stores.
• Integration: REST & SOAP to integrate with warehouse, finance, shipping, drop shippers and mobile app.
• Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, LESS, XML, XSLT, JQuery, AJAX
• Performance & Upgrade: Magento performance enhancement including caching, database & code cleanup and server architecture. Magento version upgrades.
• Tools: Docker, PHPStorm, X-Debug, MySQL Workbench, FileZilla, SSH, JMeter, GIT.