Jason Portell


Comfortable with contributing to the efforts of a team or serving as a one-person team, I'm a web developer with over 20 years of experience. Most of these years have been spent working in the fields of higher education and finance. While skilled in most aspects of web development, recent projects have focused on e-commerce, API development, intranet applications, and middleware integrations. I enjoy making platforms work together to deliver an outstanding user experience.

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Experience

Developer / Consultant

J. Portell Web Development and Consulting, LLC

1999-Current

Web Developer

Langley Federal Credit Union

2016-2023
Newport News, VA

At Langley, I covered most aspects of web development. I was responsible for the public facing websites and a host of internal websites as well as numerous applications and API integrations. I was also responsible for maintaining high-availability public facing servers, numerous internal servers, the content delivery network, and web application firewall. I was a member of a team that contributed to banking core and digital banking conversions.

In addition to managing the credit union's websites, web infrastructure, and contributing to the digital banking team efforts, I was responsible for developing:
  • The charity cash raffle system. During my tenure, this application was used to conduct 49 cash raffles for the Langley for Families Foundation. Technology: PHP, MySQL, Stripe, Twilio, Marketo, SendGrid
  • A text messaging application for call center customer support. Technology: PHP, MySQL, Twilio
  • An engaging 700+ user intranet portal. Technology: WordPress, Self-developed plugins
  • A loan pre-approval acceptance system integrated with digital banking platforms. Technology: PHP, MySQL, Marketo, Self-developed REST API, Meridian Link LoansPQ API
  • A registration system for monthly cash-back promotion enrollment. Technology: PHP, MySQL, SQL, Marketo, Self-developed REST API
  • The production of dozens of smaller applications used for emergency notification, reporting, tracking, product testing, and querying systems and data streams. These applications are used for everything from monitoring systems for signs of potential fraud to collecting insurance application user input.

Senior Web Developer

Hampton University

2007-2016
Hampton, VA

I was responsible for the development, deployment, and continued maintenance of many academic web sites and mini-sites. While at Hampton, I overhauled their e-commerce system, developed their content management system, created an e-commerce streaming platform for athletic events and other paid content, co-created their directory system, created a ticketing system, developed a survey system, created hundreds of user forms, and created a paid registration application for a forum that hosts 1,500+ registrants.

Skills

Technology Years
HTML & CSS 25
PHP 22
SQL/MySQL 17
CFML 10
JavaScript 21
Linux Server 17
Windows Server (IIS) 7
Adobe Photoshop 30
Adobe Premiere 7
Wordpress 17
Accessibility (WCAG) 6

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