Job offered: Moodle Course Developer

Type: Full-time
Part-time
Contract
Location: Boston Area, but will telecommute

Seeking

Online media (Flex/Flash) and Moodle course developer position.

Summary

  • Online course developer and software engineer with proven experience designing, developing and enabling a complete online course.
  • Advanced knowledge of Moodle and associated back-end supporting packages, including mySql, PHP and Apache.
  • Well-versed in the development, writing and deployment of course content, with recent experience creating extensive suite of lessons in Adobe Flex (v3.2).
  • Expertise in customizing front-end components of a project, including theme HTML and PHP modules, as necessary.
  • Creativity with developing a mix of subject matter quiz questions in all supported Moodle formats.
Recent Project
Will provide web link for latest project upon request.

Project description:
  • Developed complete online training program in laboratory safety for an educational organization in the Boston area.
  • Identified all technical and non-technical issues. Proposed and implemented optimal and cost-effective solutions for implementing online training program.
  • Using Flex Builder, created Flash presentation lessons that comprised of diverse text sources with embedded video and audio clips.
  • Developed simple XML-based template to allow subject matter experts to easily create and submit material. This data was ultimately parsed and processed by the Flex content application.
  • Created all quiz and test material.
  • Installed and administered both local (for testing) and public Moodle installations.
  • Customized HTML and PHP code for company Moodle theme.
Miscellaneous

System administration experience on both Linux and Windows 7 and XP.

Proven experience in:
  • Developing Flex-based media.
  • Deploying and administering all back end packages, including Apache, mySql and PHP.
  • Advanced Linux/Unix tools, for debugging and troubleshooting.
Demonstrated acumen in advanced use of:
  • Flex and Flex Builder.
  • Moodle installation, deployment, configuration and administration.
  • Creating video and audio using a variety of utilities.
  • Determining optimal tools for modifying and/or generating audio and video.
Background

A (former) Java/C++ Quality Assurance test tool developer and network engineer with a Bachelor's degree in computer science and a Master's in Information Assurance (Security).

Please contact me at: andre.brassard@comcast.net.



Entry added by Andre Brassard - 14 Jan 2010
Last updated - 2 Jun 2010