Stephen Parish

A Seattle based web developer with a concentration on JavaScript, jQuery and PHP development.

Hi there! I’m Stephen. I’m a web developer at DocuSign, Inc. in Seattle. I love what I do, plain and simple. I’ve been working professionally on the web for the past 5 years, writing code, architecting servers, and creating easy to use applications.

Both my career and my lifestyle come down to one simple thing. I like to create. Whether it be from scratch or completely transforming something to make it new. I’ve built everything from small JavaScript canvas applications to entire MVC frameworks in PHP or Node.js. I’ve been doing this since before I could drive, and I enjoy it more every day.

Currently working at DocuSign as a Web Developer, my day consists of tasks like rebuilding an eCommerce engine, developing ad campaign forms, to analyzing and implementing major bug fixes in the course of 5 minutes.

The biggest factor in all of this is a drive for that feeling of accomplishment; the one you get when you create something from nothing. There isn’t anything like it and it’s what pushes me to create new usable and accessible applications for the web.

Professional

  • Front and back-end object-oriented programming for websites and applications
  • Highly scalable and reusable code
  • Developing with a team
  • User experience design
  • Web systems administration
  • Database design and query optimization

Technologies

Highly proficient:
  • Front-end web development — JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, JSON, DOM, XML
  • Back-end web development — PHP 4/5, MVC frameworks
  • Database design — MySQL, MongoDB
  • Systems administration — Linux/Unix, Apache, Subversion
  • Content management systems — Joomla, Drupal 7, Wordpress
Proficient:
  • Back-end web development — Node.js, ASP.NET
  • Software development — Java
  • Database design — SQL Server
  • Systems administration — Amazon Web Services, Git, IIS

DocuSign, Inc. View Site
Web Developer — June 2010 to present

Roles and Achievments

Responsible for web development and maintenance on all non-SaaS sites.

  • Improved ease of purchase, sign up, and upgrade processes for DocuSign accounts on the web through Social network integration and easier routing to upgrading your account.
  • Created promotional plan tool within e-commerce engine allowing for promotional plan provision and sale.
  • Created many web tools to be used by sales representatives and other DocuSign staff. Most notable, a Demo Creator which allows the creation of an elegant web demo in a matter of minutes.
  • Built in-depth lead tracking and nurturing into the site, allowing constant communication with Salesforce.com.

Sample Work

  • Demo Creator App January 2012View details

    A desktop and mobile application that allows for stunning product demos to be created in a matter of seconds.


Puyallup School District View Site
Web Developer and Designer — Feb 2007 to Sept 2009

Roles and Achievments

Responsible for web development and design of all 32 school sites, K-12, as well as many other district applications.

  • Played a major role in creating a content management system that allowed teachers and other staff to easily manage their own school site, calendar and individual teacher pages.
  • Helped to train each school on site use and management to generate greatest use and knowledge of the system.
  • Developed Email List Server application which allowed for prospective PSD employees to be notified of new job openings as soon as they came out.
  • Handled all communication to incoming web site requests and bugs by PSD faculty.

Sample Work

  • Emerald Ridge HS Alumni Network June 2009View Site

    A site built for faculty of Emerald Ridge to collect graduating students information and allow it to be easily updated over the years for easy messaging to alumni.

Bellevue College 2009 to 2011

Associates in Science
Transfer Degree toward BA in Computer Science

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