Lucas Healy
Seeking experience as a developer for a tech based social justice project or organization.
Education
University of California Santa Cruz
Global Information & Social Enterprise Studies: 3.7/4.0
2009-2012
At UCSC my research on the technological divide was published in the Global Atlas of Inequalities (Crow, Lodha; 2011), I studied abroad at the University of Ghana, was a Dean's Honor recipient, and Golden Key Scholar. My studies focused on mobile technologies for social advocacy and my senior thesis examed patient information security policy in Ghana.
Sonoma State University
General Education: 3.8/4.0
2007-2009
I completed my general education while planning events and fundraisers with the campus snow/ski club.
Experience
Freelance Web Developer
Sole Proprietor
July 2015 - Present
Develop and maintain 3-4 e-commerce stores for long-term clients. Combined my clients trust me to web applications that sell over $150,000 a month in products. Aside from maintaining client's e-commerce stores I manage and integrate third party accounting, inventory, and CRMs systems via differnt APIs.
Back-end Developer
Booj
February 2014 - May 2015
Worked with OOP PHP and MySQL as a backend developer for the Enterprise Network. I helped develop and maintain a a system that recieved hundreds of thousands of views a day. Booj works with with the nation's premier independent real estate companies and provides web services as well as mobile and CRM applications for clients and agents.
Freelance Web Developer
Sole Proprietor
December 2012 - June 2013
Worked with 32 projects and 14 unique clients on various websites and applications. Most projects required an understanding of Wordpress, PHP, Javascript, CSS, and HTML. Maintained a 5.0 rating on upwork.com.
Center for Democratic Development Ghana
Web Developer Intern
April 2012 - November 2012
Designed, developed, and branded the IamAware web and SMS application. The project, in partnership with IQSS Harvard, CitiFM, and Metro TV, focused on disseminating nonbiased socio-economic information directly to the population.
Global Information Internship Program (GIIP)
Fellow
2010-2012
Helped develop pieces of GIIP's website, co-taught a class on mobile development for social advocacy, and acted as a student mentor to GIIP students interested in mobile technologies, web development, and West Africa.
Skills
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PHP
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MySql
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OOP
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HTML/CSS(3)
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Jquery
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Responsive Design
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Wordpress
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Drupal
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Adobe Ps/Ai
I am currently focused on back-end development and the OOP paradigm
References
References Available Upon Request