Paolo (Paul) Cappucci Drupal Web Developer | Silver Spring, MD 20902 pcpacino@yahoo.com

Active Security Clearance
Q/TS Top Secret clearance | Active since 8/2010

Years of experience

  • 1996 – Started web designing with Photoshop, HTML, JavaScript, and Flash
  • 2010 – Started Drupal 6 development on contract at the Department of Energy
  • 2014 – Started Drupal 7 development on contract at the Department of Energy
  • 2016 – Started Drupal 8 development on contract at the Food and Drug Administration
  • 2020 - Started Drupal 9 development on contract at the Pentagon (DoD) Department of Defense
  • 2021 – Started Drupal 7,8,9 development on contract at the Department of Energy


 

Salary requirement is negotiable

Summary
I am a Drupal and WordPress web developer and site builder. My local environment is usually VirtualBox and Redhat with a GUI and also Vagrant if allowed on client computer. I can theme a CMS from designer created mockups or by copying the look of another website. I can create all the needed Twig templates and theme preprocess hooks. I have worked on government projects in a full web development life cycle. Planning, Design, Coding, Testing, Launch and Maintenance. I work well in a team environment that is using Git, Jira and the inside the Development, Staging, and Production environment. I have worked in a Agile team environment. I can set up custom Drupal Paragraphs displaying static or dynamic content with dependent templates, custom Views with Contextual filters and Relations to other entity’s, Blocks and Content Types. I am good with Twig filters and the Twig templating system. I know the basic Drupal hooks. I am good at customizing forms using hook form alter. I can alter search query using hook query alter. I am good at upgrading Drupal core, third-party modules and patching vulnerabilities using Composer. I have installed and used all of the popular Drupal modules, Redirect, Metatag, Pathauto, Ctools, Devel. I am good with 508 Compliance checking using browser devtools and fixing issues using jQuery if needed. I am good at standing up Redhat servers for Development or Production use, and patching vulnerabilities. I can create simple php Drupal modules which display custom pages, blocks and views. I am a front and middle side, Drupal web developer. I have worked for the Department of Energy, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense. I have had a top-secret clearance for 10 years.

Software experience
Drupal 6, 7, 8, 9 WordPress, Linux, CentOS, Red Hat, Server scripting, FIPS and STIG enabling. AWS console, EC2 and RDS. Jenkins Automation tasks, PHP 5 &7, MySQL, Git, Twig, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS, SASS, NodeJS, Gulp, Drush, Composer and Console, Behat testing. Also have experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, ActionScript.

Technical skills
Knowledgeable with Drupal 8 Configuration sync management. Building in a local environment. Setting up Git repository and creating a full life-cycle from development to Production using Jenkins for automation and deployments. Can create commonly used Drupal hooks that modify out-of-the-box functionality and extend core and third-party modules. Can create commonly used preprocess theme hooks. Good with jQuery, JavaScript, Backend scripting and populating fields from csv or other fields, Migration of data from another source into Drupal. Very good with Twig template theming and front-end development. Can build Red Hat servers on Amazon EC2 or other cloud platforms with FIPS and STIG enabled.
 

Certifications
ITIL Foundation | COMPTIA SECURITY+ | COMPTIA A+ | AWS EC2 Technical Professional Accreditation | Currently working on the Acquia Drupal Certification

 

Awards
2011 - Performance Award InfoReliance
2011 - Department of Energy Certificate of Appreciation
2013 - Performance Award InfoReliance
2013 - Leonardo Award InfoReliance
2014 - Leonardo Award InfoReliance
2015 - Leonardo Award InfoReliance
2021 - The Secretary of Energy Achievement Award
2021 - Positive Impact Award (PIA) M9 Solutions


Work History

 

5/2021 – Present | Drupal 9 web developer Full-time Position | M9 Solutions, LLC
Contractor for the DoE – Department of Energy internal and public facing websites.

11/2020 – Present | Drupal 9 web developer Part-time Position | Blue Sky Innovative Solutions
Contractor for the DoD – The Pentagon, Department of Defense internal websites.

  • Transfer static website to new hosting
  • Take inventory of existing website, pages, navigation hierarchy, media and files
  • Prepare static website for migration to Drupal 9.
  • Use Python to scrape large PDF listing into Excel spreadsheet for migration
  • Make adjustments to HTML and DOM for 508 Compliance, Skip links, Correct tabbing, Alt tags, ARIA labels
  • Prepare pages, files and users into a mappable Excel spreadsheet that can be imported in Drupal’s database
  • Provide training to staff on editing and publishing workflow

9/2016 – 5/2021 | Drupal 7 and WordPress Web Developer, Part-time Position working at night | IntePros Federal
WordPress maintenance and System Admin for the Red Hat servers. Maintain internal WordPress websites, modules and theme. Keep codebase up to date with the latest releases.

  • Work directly with site editors to perform updates and changes as needed to theme, workflow and functionality of WordPress.
  • Build new Views to display specific filtered content
  • Modify the node edit and create form to match the client’s needs
  • Make adjustments to HTML and DOM for 508 Compliance, Skip links, Correct tabbing, Alt tags, ARIA labels
  • Maintain the Red Hat servers regularly updating packages and monitoring disk space usage and automated backups.

 

9/2016 – 1/2020 | Drupal 8 Web Developer, Full-time | Aurotech Corp

  • Contract for the FDA Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health public website. Fda.gov.
  • Building the public facing website from a legacy platform to Drupal 8 including migration from Oracle CMS to Drupal 8.
  • Mapped old content fields to new fields.
  • The migration was done using migration software and mapping files.
  • Built new CCK fields that accepting the migrated data. Entity blocks were used so that each template had access to node variables.
  • Set up Composer to maintain packages and update the site.
  • Updated the site when a new Drupal Security risk was announced.
  • Added NPM Node package manager and added Gulp to compile Sass.
  • Built custom Views and Datatable JS to display content.
  • Created the theme and templates to display the content.
  • Created Custom Twig extension module that enhanced twig filters.
  • Created Dynamic Paragraphs that were populated by Views.
  • Created a custom module that added Conditional Paragraph fields.
  • Custom modules created included the use of hook form alter to modify the node edit pages and remove or unset certain fields, change the labels of certain fields and re-position fields.
  • Other hooks used were hook query alter to modify Views queries.
  • Created a few new alert messages. Some custom jQuery was created to improve 508 accessibility by adding labels to fields that had missing labels.
  • The node edit page and admin area was styled by a custom theme. For the admin area, also created View display for recent content in relation to the Group the user was in.
  • The Ckeditor was extended with a custom code that added default table insertion properties.
  • Preprocess theme hook were created that added useful node variables needed for the breadcrumb and it added page attributes.
  • Created backend scripts that populated fields from CSV data files or from other field values. Datatables JS was heavily used and customized due to the large data they needed displayed.
  • Created Cron jobs that would execute the View periodically so that the Datatable would load static CSV list faster and display 15000 fields in seconds. Git and Git Split were used for each of 3 environments – Development, Staging and Production.
  • Had a team of 6 Drupal developers working together using Agile method and Jira in weekly Sprints and daily Scrum meetings.
  • Used AWS GovCloud and configured the Red Hat environments for 3 EC2 servers Development, Staging and Production.
  • Upgraded the PHP version when needed. The site is using Single Sign on with the LDAP module. The final site Fda.gov went live in 2019.

 

9/2010 – 9/2016 | Drupal 6,7 web developer Full-time | InfoReliance Corporation – was acquisitioned by ECS Federal in 2017

  • Contract for the Department of Energy NNSA Public website.
  • This position is the same job position as the job above.
  • This was a Drupal 6, 7 and WordPress maintenance position and was also the System Admin for the Red Hat servers.
  • For the Drupal 6 website, kept the site, modules, and theme up to date with the latest releases.
  • Added new dynamic Views to pull in content.
  • Added custom Paragraphs and Drupal Responsive Images
  • Created a few custom modules needed by the client to change the node edit form.
  • Migrated the Drupal 6 site up to Drupal 7
  • Make adjustments to HTML and DOM for 508 Compliance, Skip links, Correct tabbing, Alt tags, ARIA labels
  • Kept the site, modules, and theme up to date with the latest releases.
  • Maintained the Red Hat servers regularly updating packages and the kernel and monitoring disk space usage.

 

4/2007 – 9/2010 | Web developer Full-time |Full Spectrum Telecommunications

  • Design, build, and update websites operated by Asknow.com.
  • Tools utilized here were Photoshop, Dreamweaver, jQuery, CSS, Html and Java Script, Flash, Action Script, and Drupal.
  • The websites were built on both the asp and a php platform.

 

6/1996 – 10/2006 | Web developer Full-time |Online Creations, Staten Island, New York

  • Worked remotely for them for 10 years.
  • Design, build, and update websites operated by Online Creations.
  • Design and build and update members area. Design the link exchange, referral sites and the advertising material.
  • Tools utilized here were Photoshop, Dreamweaver, CSS, Html and Java Script, Flash, Action Script.

 

Education
4/1989  Northwestern High School |Hyattsville Maryland
2/1992  | Montgomery College | Rockville Maryland
6/1997  | The Art Institute | Fort Lauderdale Florida

 

Recommendations

Ethel Formichelli | Interim COO | M9 Solutions
M9's client recently let us know about the superb work and support you have provided to complete the IT Support landing page. In addition to this top-notch support, these contributions helped to enable a quick turnaround to be ahead of the original schedule. You provided much needed HTML expertise in creating and adjusting style sheets to meet the wireframe look and feel. M9 and our client has great appreciation for you being able to pick this up so quickly!

You have embodied the M9 Core Values of Reliability, Work Ethic, and Curiosity. Thank you for all that you do and congratulations!

 

Recommendations on Linkedin  | linkedin.com/in/pcpacino

Gopi Manoharan | Drupal developer | linkedin.com/in/gopivignesh
I have worked with Paolo in an enterprise project, which had complex frontend and backend requirements. He made significant contributions to the project with his technical skills, high degree of professionalism and communication. Across the board, everyone enjoyed working with Paolo, he is a great team player. I will absolutely like to work in a same team with him.

 

Ryan Kahn | Project manager | linkedin.com/in/ryanpkahn
Paul was a great addition to our Drupal team. He helped us stand up a Drupal environment, refactor 10 years of customized code, and was always willing to help out a team member. Paul is an outstanding Drupal developer and communicated well with the Development team, clients, and support. He is filled with ideas, enthusiasm, and is always positive. Paul provided incredible value to our project and would be an asset to any project team!