Site Architect Resume
Portland, OR
SUMMARY:
A dedicated, accomplished, Web Architect highly regarded for 20+ years of progressive experience designing, testing, and administrating interactive technologies and applications. Recognized for the rare combination of business and marketing savvy coupled with an extensive technological skillset, utilized to solve core business issues via the latest technology. An outstanding relationship builder, skilled at quickly gaining and maintaining the trust and respect of C - level executives, staff, strategic partners, and international clientele alike.
CORE COMPETENCIES & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:
Website Architecture
Software Development
Process Improvement
Agile Methodology
Managing Distributed Teams
Headless CMS (Drupal, WordPress)
HTML5, CSS (Compass/SASS)
JavaScript, Perl, PHPSQL, NoSQL (CouchDB, MongoDB)
Web Services (AJAX, JSON, REST)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Portland, OR
Site Architect
Responsibilities:
- Led a core development team of up to 12 to create, code, and deploy corporate web properties on LAMP, Drupal, and WordPress and Node.js stacks.
- Championed the introduction and launch of an Agile development process and served as Agile methodology Subject Matter Expert.
- Created guidelines, specifications, requirements, and templates for dozens of web properties across the company, including the core front-end standards and corporate navigation.
- Architected and developed technology to efficiently represent Confidential products and services in 170+ countries and 20+ languages.
- Provided technical leadership for the integration of Social Media into Confidential web properties, including the development of Social Media aggregator platform.
- Developed an ‘atomic design' library of CSS, JavaScript, and HTML templates for key brand components, solving a core issue of outdating branding and improving the overall site update process.
- Innovated a solution to solve a core issue within a legacy infrastructure by employing the 'strangler' pattern to wrap the application with a web services interface and developing a cloud-based node.js application.
- Spearheaded the migration from an outdated content management system to a modern CMS platform and partnership with best-in-class hosting provider to host in the cloud.
