Ernie Francis
Information Technology Manager
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErnie Francis is an Information Technology Manager with over a decade of hands-on experience modernizing infrastructure, leading technical teams, and driving cost-saving initiatives for public-facing organizations. He has successfully transitioned organizations to cloud-based communications, expanded wireless coverage for field sites, and implemented enterprise-grade endpoint protection, backups, and asset management often at little or no added cost. Comfortable across IT ops and full‑stack development, he has built serverless AWS workflows, refactored front-end apps to React/TypeScript, and contributed Svelte and Storybook improvements to popular open-source projects. Known for rebuilding IT programs from the ground up, mentoring staff, and re-establishing partnerships with university IT guilds, he combines strategic vendor negotiation with practical engineering to align technology with organizational goals. Based in the Town of Brookhaven, NY, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach and a track record of turning constrained budgets into tangible operational gains.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Programming, Information Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Programming, Information Systems at Farmingdale State CollegeAssociate of Science - AS, Information Technology, Network Design, Associate of Science - AS, Information Technology, Network Design at Suffolk County Community CollegeCisco Networking Academy, 12, Cisco Networking Academy, 12 at Eastern Suffolk BOCES
Github Skills (16)
component-development10
typescript10
javascript10
bootstra10
component-kit10
svelte10
typescripts10
bootstrap10
storybook10
typescript-types10
documentation10
ui-components10
react9
ui-design9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bestguy/sveltestrap
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Bootstrap 4 & 5 components for Svelte
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Ernie primarily contributed to the development of Bootstrap components for Svelte. Their work involved updating the project dependencies and modifying the configuration to support the next major version of the Sveltestrap project. Additionally, they added TypeScript support and fixed various issues related to the stories and type definitions, indicating a focus on improving the project's structure and developer experience.
svelte-kitsveltesvelte3bootstrap-4bootstrap
storybookjs/storybook
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ernie primarily contributed to enhancing the documentation and component structure for Svelte within the Storybook ecosystem. They implemented features for inline documentation of Svelte components, including the integration of docgen for automatic control generation. The user's work involved significant modifications to the Svelte-specific tooling and configuration files, enabling a more streamlined development and documentation experience for Svelte components. Furthermore, they added testing infrastructure to ensure the quality of the documentation generation.
web-componentsui-developmentvueui-componentsjavascript
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