Steven Wichers

As-needed contract work to provide ongoing site maintenance and new functionality as desired. Additionally provided architecture recommendations for future build outs.

Create a new decoupled editorial experience and content warehouse featuring real-time importing, normalization, and indexing of disparate sources. A significant amount of performance optimizations centered around the database and internal Drupal mechanisms, resulting in some upstream changes to core.

Review Solr implementation and provide architectural recommendations moving forward.

Created jMeter & BlazeMeter test suites to assist in identifying and troubleshooting potential editorial bottlenecks.

Brought in to train new development team on PHP / Drupal 8 best practices. Additionally migrated codebase to align it with Drupal 8 standards and expectations.

This was a multi-faceted project centered around replatforming many non-Drupal sites onto Acquia Cloud Site Factory / Drupal 8. These sites included e-commerce integrations that needed to carry over. Developers were also trained in both PHP and Drupal development.

Some primary goals of the project included more intuitive product checkout, better featuring and exposure of products, and a streamlined content editing interface. Solr integration was heavily leveraged to provide listings and… Show more

This was a multi-faceted project centered around replatforming many non-Drupal sites onto Acquia Cloud Site Factory / Drupal 8. These sites included e-commerce integrations that needed to carry over. Developers were also trained in both PHP and Drupal development.

Some primary goals of the project included more intuitive product checkout, better featuring and exposure of products, and a streamlined content editing interface. Solr integration was heavily leveraged to provide listings and site search. Show less

Brought into project to assist with blocking technical and architectural issues before launch. Acted as a developer Q&A touchpoint to resolve integration issues, introduce advanced Drupal 8 concepts, and otherwise guide towards best practices. Provided proof of concept implementations for third party video service integrations.

Drupal site build with a large content migration from Sharepoint and other sources. Significant work with migration APIs and content standardization before import by Drupal. Additionally includes an Event system and external news importing.

Performed a thorough code and security audit for internal projects that evolved through organically-driven business requirements. Provided architectural solutions to mitigate content distribution and editorial concerns.

Work also included significant refactoring of many existing codebases into a single shared codebase. These refactoring changes included improvements to content migration and translation API time to process turnaround and system reliability. Built out a decoupled interface… Show more

Performed a thorough code and security audit for internal projects that evolved through organically-driven business requirements. Provided architectural solutions to mitigate content distribution and editorial concerns.

Work also included significant refactoring of many existing codebases into a single shared codebase. These refactoring changes included improvements to content migration and translation API time to process turnaround and system reliability. Built out a decoupled interface for providing structured content to varying devices while laying the groundwork for a full headless solution. Show less

An interactive AngularJS+Bootstrap application with a unique requirement of having no access to REST backend while needing to be relatively easy for the client to maintain the data.

An interactive AngularJS+Bootstrap application with a unique requirement of having no access to REST service while needing to be relatively easy for the client to maintain the data. Developed in a semi-generic fashion in order to leverage as a skeleton for similar projects.

A site created for Marriott to host and encourage creativity centered around building and orchestrating great meetings at their hotels.

Built out e-commerce aspect to SEO service marketing and subscription site along with ongoing support for automated process development as demand grows.

Contracted to update an out of date Drupal install and migrate it to a new environment.

Re-engineered corporate website to adequately portray the company and it's initiatives after the merger of McMurry and TMG.

Complete re-architecture, design and development of the Saint Luke's web presence including several thousand pages and a fully integrated third-party health library.

Strategic consulting that mapped a multi-phase digital roadmap for all of the newly combined entities within the University of Arizona Health Network; two hospitals, 20+ medical practices, four health plans, a children's center and the College of Medicine. Complete re-architecture, design and development of the integrated web presence including several thousand pages and a fully integrated third-party health library.

A complete redesign of the American le Mans website to bring it in line with modern web trends. Some of the features include social media integration with Facebook and Twitter, live race broadcasting with visitor commentary, live pit note streaming, live scoring updates, race history of past and current races, and driver profiles.

Managed the development of the mobile compatible version of McMurry.com.

A dynamic SEO system for customized and localized hospital microsites driven and managed by a single Drupal setup.

Architected and developed a system to automatically create websites based with relevant content of varying types given just the domain name.