I'm a Canada-based web developer with over 20 years of experience building and maintaining websites and web applications for clients across Canada and the United States. I specialize in expert WordPress theme development, plugin customization, and full-stack development using HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, and MySQL. I enjoy turning complex requirements into fast, editable, and scalable solutions. From rebuilding legacy PHP apps to crafting responsive WordPress sites, fully optimized for speed and SEO. I focus on clean code, performance, and user-friendly interfaces that help clients grow.…

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I'm a Canada-based web developer with over 20 years of experience building and maintaining websites and web applications for clients across Canada and the United States. I specialize in expert WordPress theme development, plugin customization, and full-stack development using HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, and MySQL. I enjoy turning complex requirements into fast, editable, and scalable solutions. From rebuilding legacy PHP apps to crafting responsive WordPress sites, fully optimized for speed and SEO. I focus on clean code, performance, and user-friendly interfaces that help clients grow.…

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I’m a Canada-based web developer with over 20 years of experience building and maintaining websites and web applications for clients across Canada and the United States. I specialize in expert WordPress theme development, plugin customization, and full-stack development using HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, PHP, and MySQL.

I enjoy turning complex requirements into fast, editable, and scalable solutions. From rebuilding legacy PHP apps to crafting responsive WordPress sites, fully optimized for speed and SEO. I focus on clean code, performance, and user-friendly interfaces that help clients grow.

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Skills

Experience Level

WordPress
Expert
JavaScript
Expert
HTML5
Expert
Bootstrap
Expert
CSS
Expert
PHP
Expert
jQuery
Expert
MySQL
Expert
SEO
Expert
Elementor
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Figma
Expert
API
Expert
Adobe After Effects
Expert
WooCommerce
Expert
Web Design
Expert
Google API
Expert
Adobe Premiere Pro
Expert
GitHub
Expert
Salesforce
Expert
Stripe
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
GitHub CoPilot
Intermediate
Final Cut Pro X
Intermediate
Shopify
Intermediate
Drupal
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Contact WordPress Web Developer at Dominet Web Services
November 9, 2025 - Present
- Redeveloped an old, outdated PHP/MySQL app, that was developed on the PHP 5 framework, to track and manage all the business activities of a BC-based collection agency called Universal Tracing. Rebuilt all the functionality used in the old site from the ground up including the ability to manage cases, case types, clients, subclients, and tracers, including a public-facing client login section on the WordPress site to allow clients to add new cases and submit them to Universal Tracing. - Upgraded a church website, https://stjohnsrichmond.ca, to work with PHP 8.4. The website was built in WordPress, but the custom PHP code would not work with PHP 8, so a lot of the PHP code had to be rewritten to use the new PHP 8 functions, especially for connecting to, fetching from, and writing to the MySQL database. Work included a rebuild of their complex sermon manager seen at https://stjohnsrichmond.ca/sermons-resources/sermons
Full Stack Web Developer at Saint Bernadine Mission Communications, Vancouver, Canada
October 4, 2021 - October 12, 2025
- Fully redeveloped a new WordPress website for the De Dutch chain of restaurants that can be seen at https://dedutch.com. I did all the front-end and back-end work in creating the theme and all its components based on Figma designs and requirements. The theme was built in Bootstrap 5 and incorporated advanced custom fields with flexible content fields for a custom backend editing system. Performed optimization and SEO tasks for 2 months after making their new site live including Local SEO. I also fully redeveloped and/or managed other websites such as https://vanmaritime.com, included https://nicolawealth.com (Nicola Wealth Accounting Firm), https://dhgroup.ca (D & H Group Accountants), https://carverssteakhouse.ca (Carver’s Steakhouse), https://dairycentre.landfood.ubc.ca (UBC Dairy), https://fbic.landfood.ubc.ca (UBC Food and Beverage Innovation Centre), https://bcfirstrespondersmentalhealth.com (BC First Responders’ Mental Health), https://spinex.co (SpineX Medical Bioeletric Solutions), and https://www.wheelhousebrewing.com (Wheelhouse Brewing Company).
Full Stack Web Developer at Mark Anthony Group
December 8, 2019 - August 19, 2021
Long-term contract work for the Mark Anthony Group in Vancouver to redevelop and maintain most of their product brand websites including: White Claw (https://www.whiteclaw.com) which currently has 7 international websites in 4 different languages; Glendalough Distillery (https://us.glendaloughdistillery.com); Cayman Jack (https://www.caymanjack.com ); Mike’s Hard (https://mikeshard.com); Mike’s Hard Seltzer (https://www.mikeshardseltzer.com); and Freed Earth Tea (https://www.freedearthtea.com). Tasks involved mainly front-end development, converting new designs to Bootstrap templates and integrating them into the Hugo templating system. Websites also connected to APIs for searching and browsing for products on an embedded Google Map and store list. - Developed two WordPress websites for their company brand Bearface Whisky: a Canadian-facing website, https://www.bearfacewhisky.com, and a US-facing website, https://us.bearfacewhisky.com. Tasks included developing a new Bootstrap WordPress theme from design files, building a custom multi-lingual setup, and a cocktail recipe manager.
Contract/Full-Time Web Developer at Various Clients
October 12, 2020 - April 10, 2025
- Complete redevelopment of https://www.checkrtrust.com from Figma designs using Elementor, completed August 2025. I used their Elementor hosting staging site to develop their new website starting with a base Elementor theme and using their Figma designs, Elementor widgets, and custom code to make their new website look nearly identical to their designs. Old blog posts were carried over to the new website, but besides that, all the content was new. - Was hired for an intense one month contract to do some heavy lifting for some final updates on the redevelopment of the Miller Thomson website, https://www.millerthomson.com, during the month of October 2024. My tasks included performing a lot of complex customizations related to Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) as well as a PDF generator to show CVs for every lawyer on the website which got updated every time the lawyer ACF fields were saved. - Worked on both part-time and full-time contracts for the Toptal Organization as a WordPress consultant/developer for websites like https://www.bioreference.com, https://kalehealth.com, and https://ripusa.com including performing customization tasks such as creating searchable directories and integrating APIs, making final changes to websites and launching them, and Full design-to-WordPress website development projects. Toptal profile: https://www.toptal.com/resume/john-lapointe
Lead Web Developer at Rogers Communications, Inc., British Columbia
August 14, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Worked onsite as the lead developer for 7 months developing new websites for the Rogers Communications’ Cityfone line of websites including https://www.cityfone.net and https://www.simplyconnect.ca. Note: Since those websites were developed, they have been retired and taken down.

Education

Diploma of Web Development at Praxis Training Institute
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2001
Diploma in Multimedia Learning Technology at New Brunswick Community College
December 1, 1997 - October 12, 1999

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Education, Telecommunications, Government, Retail
    paper Bearface Whisky (New Website)

    Because of my expertise in WordPress, I was tasked with developing a new website for the Mark Anthony Group for a new whisky brand they purchased called Bearface Whisky.

    The website was a challenge due to the massive amount of high quality imagery and background on most of the pages, and I had to produce both and English version and French version.

    I developed the two languages by creating the English pages at the root, and all the equivalent French pages in an “fr” folder so I didn’t have to use any plugin such as WPML, and switching languages would always land you on the right page.

    https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper De Dutch Restaurant Website Redevelopment

    The goal for the redevelopment of the De Dutch website was to convert a Figma design to a WordPress theme white integrating all old and new content into the website. In order to make the content fully manageable to the owner, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) was used to create custom editable sections mainly using the Flexible Content field with other fields. The new website was developed on a staging environment, optimized, and set up with basic SEO before pushing the new website live.

    paper Checkr Trust Website Redevelopment

    After being given 6 weeks to turn a new Figma Design into a new WordPress website, I got to work at developing their new WordPress theme using Elementor Pro including templates for main pages, blog articles, and customer stories. I then set up all the tools they were using before such as Hubspot and Yoast, set up 301 redirects, optimized their images, created custom code for features Elementor could not do out of the box, and pushed their site to production from staging.
    My work can be viewed at https://www.twine.net/signin