Tim Ward
Director Of Software Engineering at Seminole State College of Florida
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ward is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 11 years of hands-on experience building PHP/MySQL web applications and leading teams, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Seminole State College. He designed and delivered large campus-wide systems—most notably a custom CMS for a 15,000-page site and the Task Integration Management gateway used for media, room and print services—demonstrating an ability to translate institutional needs into dependable web platforms. Tim blends backend expertise (PHP, SQL, SOAP) with rich client work in JavaScript/AJAX and has contributed to open-source PHP tooling by fixing bugs, improving type declarations, and adding tests to the rectorphp/rector project. His background spans e-commerce integrations that drove multimillion-dollar revenue, LMS-adjacent teaching experience, and operational IT management, giving him rare insight into both product delivery and user-facing support. Holding an MBA in IT Management and a B.S. in Computer Information Sciences, he pairs strategic leadership with practical engineering judgment. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactoring and reliable production systems that evolve safely over time.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), IT Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), IT Management at Western Governors UniversityBachelors, Computer Information Sciences, Bachelors, Computer Information Sciences at University of Florida
Github Skills (9)
testing10
automatic10
php10
autoupdate10
rector10
automatic-updates10
unattended-upgrades10
astm9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rectorphp/rector
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 21 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the `rectorphp/rector` repository by fixing code style issues and addressing bugs. Their work involved modifications to PHP files, including updates to type declarations and correcting regular expressions. They also added fixtures for testing purposes, ensuring the correctness of the refactoring rules. Furthermore, they created and updated test files to validate the functionality of the codebase.
instant-upgradesphp-5automated-upgradesphpast
UFTimmy/SpellTimerPlugin
Jul 2015 - Jan 2022
Plugin for the Genie3 client
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 years 6 months
plugin
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