Blake Whitkanack

Traffic Coordinator / IT

• Effectively communicated deliverable timelines to client executives.
• Created time phase dashboard for improved inventory planning.
• Managed 3 employees and delivery of over $30 million in freight.
• Modeled data pertaining to inventory and order management, scheduling, customers, fleet management, and driver information.
• Performed IT functions such as replacing rack-mount servers, switches, firewalls and troubleshooting workstations.

System Architect / Web Developer / PHP Developer

• Architected technical and analytical MDM/PIM solutions using PHP, Python, and Bash that support over $450 million in yearly revenue.
• Modeled comprehensive range of agriculture equipment spanning the past five decades, alongside thousands of OEM and aftermarket parts, meticulously documenting part-to-equipment fitments.
• Parsed PDF files and scraped supplier websites for product data and built PIM attribute templates for product detail pages.
• Increased profit margins of digital campaigns before handing marketing over to a professional agency.
• Integrated and automated business processes between ERP, e- commerce, marketing and fulfillment.
• Implemented next-generation Business Intelligence technology.

Web Developer / PHP Developer

• Successfully delivered software development to a client base with a collective $3 Billion in yearly revenue.
• Architected an MDM solution that allowed an automobile dealership to generate leads which converted $20 million in sales.
• Built end-to-end Magento e-commerce presence for agricultural retailer, which increased annual revenue by over a million dollars.
• Created PIM system to house product data and dynamically generate SEO rich product titles and rich product detail pages.
• Created / co-own drop-shipping business in a little over a week, which has grossed 30k in 6 months.
• Built an e-commerce/subscription based platform for a retailer of digital goods which grosses, over $200k.

Web Engineer

• Architected systems in ERP, database architecture, business intelligence, e-commerce and business process efficiency.
• Integrated in house brand websites with order fulfillment system.
• Migrated numerous Joomla 1.0 installations to Joomla 1.5.
• Created optimized standards for Joomla development which allowed others to extend Joomla in ways that Morris Communications couldn’t before.
• Developed several PHP systems in e-commerce, social networking, Joomla, PCI compliance, ERP integration, and Pinnacle Cart.

Web Developer

• Migrated an ASP e-commerce solution to Magento and integrated with AS400 ERP system.
• Built an e-commerce solution that supported over $1 million.
• Created ERP / Magento integration consisting of over 10,000 skus.
• Developed Magento extension that integrates data such as product images from a DAM / PIM.
• Developed Magento extension that connects with both UPS and FedEx to calculate freight costs.
• Implemented an internet marketing strategy that resulted in increased transactions over prior year.
• Consulted purchase of new ERP System.

Data Metrics Intern

• Created and tested data based plugins for Kirix, the data browser.

Lake Land College