Website architecture and development with Stanford Web Services, providing Drupal-based, highly accessible websites for schools, departments, and other organizational units across Stanford University. Worked with Acquia Cloud Site Factory, Acquia Cloud Pro, and Acquia Cloud . Testing with PHPUnit, Codeception, and Github Actions. Scripting and automation for dev-ops using bash, Robo, CircleCI and other tools. Worked on decoupled Drupal with NextJS frontends. Worked as a tech lead with organizations to support custom applications, including the School of Engineering, Stanford University Library, and SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
Web software architecture and development for a leading international pre-paid legal services company. Worked on consumer-facing web properties in the US, UK, and Canada, using technologies including PHP7, Drupal 7/8, NodeJS, Yarn and Gulp. Helped build development and deployment workflows based on Acquia, Docker, and PHPUnit/Selenium. Worked on new website launches, CMS replatforming, and redesigns to support changing business needs. Helped improve analytics and tracking in direct-to-consumer and network sales funnels across multiple web properties. Helped increase direct-to-consumer sales by 50% over eight months. Worked remotely, in Agile-style teams, with members in the US, UK and South America, using collaboration software such as Slack, Jira, and Zoom.
Provided professional web programming and consulting services to a variety of private clients. Created autonomous AI-journalism software and associated news website, News-Mash.com. Created the SaaS personal note-keeping and databasing application Coldreader (www.coldreader.net). Development with Python, WordPress, Laravel, Laravel Spark, VueJS, ElementUI and a variety of third-party APIs.
Drupal 7.x web programming for a network of advertising-driven health information websites, including www.spine-health.com and www.arthritis-health.com, which serve tens of millions of pageviews per month. Collaborated with other developers and designers within in an Agile-like workflow, including version control with Git, virtualized development environments reflecting a LEMP stack on CentOS, and Jira for project management. Produced user-interface elements, new content-management functionality, and supported redesigns and new site launches.
Responsible for all technical operations of the premier fine art auction house in the Midwest. Handled all hardware and software support for a mixed-platform network, including Windows servers, Windows 7, XP, and Mac workstations, in an Active Directory environment. Development and maintenance of websites using ExpressionEngine 1.6, Drupal 6 and Übercart 2, in a LAMP environment. Operation and maintenance of multiple online live-bidding platforms. Worked closely with marketing and production personnel on digital marketing, email marketing, and social media strategy.
Maintained all online content for www.orlandoweekly.com, a newspaper website serving one of the top twenty media markets in the United States. Nominated for “Best Weekly Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site” Eppy award from Editor & Publisher magazine in 2006 and 2007. Duties included processing and posting articles, reviews, images, and related materials, developing new content and website functionality, and database and web programming with MSSQL, ASP and VBScript. Managed online advertising systems. Helped to increase website revenues by more than 800% over three years. Simultaneously, provided all technical support services for the business network. Supported file, email, web, and database servers, both Win32 and Mac clients, printers, and associated software. Authored editorial content such as cover stories, music reviews, interviews, and columns. Supervised interns, managed large projects.
Specialization in interactive storytelling. Training included beat reporting, health and science reporting, arts reporting, as well as multimedia production, including audio and video for the web.
Liberal Studies degree with a minor in Computer Information Technology, and a specialization in art.