Joshua Walcher
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Gmail: joshuawalcher
Experience
-
[2016-25] Public Strategies — Oklahoma City, OK
Position: Lead Developer
Position Details: Design and development of responsive interactive web experiences for nonprofit and for-profit clients. Assists with grant and contract writing for multimillion-dollar contracts. WordPress and Concrete5 CMS development and management. Development of digital advertising platform used firmwide. Linux web server deployment and management of shared, VPS and dedicated hosting environments including AWS.
-
[2012-2015] Stockzi — Oklahoma City, OK
Position: Founder / Lead Developer
Position Details: Development of custom stock market filters and trading algorithms to actively search market data and pick stocks & options based on technical indicators. Development of realtime stock market simulator to test algorithms against various fund sizes. Development of custom stock charting application. Integrations with the TradeKing and Just2Trade trading API’s.
-
[2004 – 2016] The Walcher Group — Oklahoma City, OK
Position: Founder / Lead Developer
Experience: Performing small business consulting engagements including eCommerce support & development, web application development, mobile application development, technical support services, and technology purchasing services through the online portal BigBoardroom.com.
-
[2008-2011] BigCommerce — Austin, TX (Remote from Oklahoma City, OK)
Position: Technical Support Level III / Development Engineer
Experience: As their only US-based web developer, participated in the development, maintenance, and support of the eCommerce products Interspire Shopping Cart and BigCommerce. Prepared and led online and in-house (Austin, TX) new hire training and continuing education classes for the support teams.
-
[2007 – 2008] Terrance D. Teel, CPA — Oklahoma City, OK
Position: Senior Tax Accountant / Financial Accountant
Experience: Developed custom web-based and Windows-based applications to improve tax preparation efficiency and to reduce error. Introduced new methods for performing advanced oil & gas depletion calculations. Managed a small team of tax preparers including review of team’s tax preparation work.
-
[2004 – 2007] CCH Tax and Accounting — Wichita, KS
Position: Tax Analyst – Federal Level
Experience: Participated in software development using a custom programming language based on C# for the premium tax software product ProSystem FX Tax Preparation as part of a large team in a corporate development environment. Spearheaded several IT initiatives including dual-monitors for all 60+ software developers and newer, more efficient development processes. To that end, developed on my own time several custom batch files and Windows programs for the development team to use that improved efficiency by over 30% and significantly reduced the possibilities of errors in the development process.
Education
Wichita State University – Wichita, KS
Additional 20+ hours in Management/Leadership
Combined cumulative coursework - 153 hours and 3.58 GPA
Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, OK
Bachelor of Science Degree - Accounting
Northern Oklahoma College – Tonkawa, OK
Associate of Science Degree - Business Administration
Associate of Applied Science Degree - Accounting: Business Management
Activities / Awards
2016 Public Strategies Make It Happen Award
2006 CCH Excellence in Action Award
2005 CCH Excellence in Action Award
2005 CCH Customer Service Award
Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Fraternity Member
NOC Outstanding Business Student Award
Oklahoma State Regents 4-year Scholarship
National Deans List – 2003-2006
USAA All-American Scholar 2003 and 2006
Kappa Beta Delta Honor Society President
Additional Skills & Experience
Typing speed of 80+ WPM.
Extensive computer hardware and software experience including:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook, QuickBooks, All versions of Windows, Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Studio, Linux, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Git, Subversion, and many others.
Accomplished web developer with experience building custom software applications for firms, customers, & for retail sale. Experience building and integrating with JSON, XML, and REST API's. Fluent in several programming languages specializing in Object-Oriented and Procedural PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS (including SASS), JavaScript/AJAX, and XML with experience in Ruby, C++, C#, Java, ASP, and VB.Net.
Extensive experience with PHP and JavaScript frameworks and libraries including CodeIgniter, Laravel, Symfony, Yii, jQuery, AngularJS, React, Express, and Vue.
Experience creating dozens of plugins and payment gateways for PHP-based shopping carts.
Works daily in LAMP and MEAN environments (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node).
Understands accessibility standards. Is the Section 508 Compliance Officer for Public Strategies.
Has created and worked with multi-million and multi-billion dollar brands. Created Yeti.com, Njoy.com, UFC’s B2B online store, Otis Baking’s B2B online store, and BBC America’s Doctor Who online store.
Strong knowledge of templating and caching systems including, but not limited to, CDN’s like Akamai and Cloudflare, Twig, Smarty.
Passionate about beautiful design, compression, optimization, cyber security, and site speed.
Firm understanding of managerial duties / expectations.
Organizational skills such as: “big picture” recognition, problem solving, detail-oriented task
completion, multitasking, and performing above average in high stress environments.