About

Jim Applebee is a Chief Systems Engineer, Senior Drupal Developer, and a Certified Drupal Grandmaster with over 33 years of relevant experience. He is an Acquia Certified Grand Master Drupal Developer and a Certified Adobe Instructor for Adobe Connect Pro and Adobe Captivate. Jim has written and maintains D7 & D8 modules on Drupal.org, including purge_users, module_export, suretax, multiple_field_question, and backup_permissions. Jim has worked on various projects in different industries, including Advanced Technical Migrations, eCommerce, Federal and Local Government, and Education. He has migrated websites from awestruct to Drupal 8 and Jive to Drupal 7 Open Atrium. Jim has also worked on eCommerce projects for companies such as wegolook.com, perfectlyposh.com, boissetcollection.com, and arogalife.com. He has also worked on government websites such as georgia.gov, ahrq.gov, healthit.ahrq.gov, and integrationacademy.ahrq.gov. Jim has also worked on education websites for Wycliffe College and TST. Jim is proficient in programming languages such as PHP (5.3.x), javascript, HTML/XHTML, CSS, XML/XSL. He is well-versed in web frameworks such as Drupal (6, 7,8 ), jQuery, WordPress, and Joomla. Jim has experience in Ecommerce platforms such as Ubercart, Drupal Commerce, Authorize.net, and Paypal. He is also familiar with operating systems like Linux, Mac, and Windows. Jim has used programming editors/IDEs such as TextMate, Text Wrangler, Note Pad++, Zend Studio, and PHP Storm. He has experience in source code control like Subversion, CVS, and GIT. Jim has worked with databases such as MySQL (4.x, 5.x) and PostgreSQL 9. He has experience in servers/daemons such as Apache (1.x, 2.x), Amazon EC2, and MySQL (4.x, 5.x). Jim has also worked with media production software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Illustrator) and Office/Productivity Software such as Macintosh Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access). Currently, Jim works as a National Account Manager at CCH\DPC – A WOLTERS KLUWER BUSINESS. In his previous role as President at LBA GROUP INC., he was responsible for various projects, including Advanced Technical Migrations, eCommerce