SUMMARY:

• A rare, inclusive visionary merging firm technical direction with insightful leadership skills and marked business acumen. Innovative with an appetite for well - managed, data-driven risk that simultaneously incentivizes and protects the humans involved. Trusted by subordinates, peers and superiors. Intentionally influential. Comfortable interfacing with executives, customers, media and the general public for any business purpose.
• Tangibly experienced in every aspect of internet-based business, including but not limited to: fundraising, sales, marketing, public relations, design, analytics, operations, accounting, customer service (via phone, email, chat and support ticket systems), project management, IT support, event management and recruiting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CSS: Compass, CSS3, SASS, SCSS, Stylus

Code Quality: Chai, Jasmine, Mocha, PhantomJS, Review Board

Customer Service: FreshBooks, Wufoo, ZenDesk

Data: JSON, JSONP, MongoDB, Mongoose, MySQL, XML

Design: After Effects, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop

Design Patterns: Facade, Mediator, MVC, Object Oriented Programming, PubSub

Dev Env: Grunt, LiveReload

Frameworks: HTML5-Boilerplate, Meteor, Yeoman

HTML: HAML, HTML5, Markdown, Textile, XHTML

Java: Grails, Groovy, Maven, STS

JavaScript: Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD), AngularJSBackbone, Express, Node, RequireJS, Underscore

Linux: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache, Bash/Shell, CentOSNginx, RightScale, Ubuntu

Mac: BBEdit, Coda, Terminal, XCode

Marketing: A/B Testing, AdWords, AdSense, AWeber, Campaign MonitorConstant Contact, Crazy Egg, Emma, Google Web Optimizer, Mailchimp

Monitoring: Monit, Munin, Pingdom

Package Management: Bower, Easy Install, Hombrew, MacPorts, NPMPear, PIP, Ruby Gems, YUM

Performance Optimization: Concatenation, JPEGTran, Lazy Load, MinificationMinify, OptiPNG, pngcrush, Smush.it, Sprites, YSlow

PHP: CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Symfony, TextpatternWordpress, XOOPS, Zend, Zend 2

Project Management: Agile, Asana, Basecamp, Business Driven DevelopmentJIRA, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, Redmine, Test Driven Development

Python: Django, Django CMS

Responsive Design: 320andUp, Twitter Bootstrap, ZURB Foundation

Security: Extended Validation SSL, OAuth, SSL

Template Engines: Dust.js, Handlebars, Jade, Mustache, Underscore

Version Control: Beanstalk, Git, GitHub, Perforce, Subversion (SVN)

Video Editing: YouTube, Vimeo

Web Services: API, CORS, CRUD, Restify

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into technical requirements
• Analyze, compare, test and select technical tools and frameworks
• Communicate with business stakeholders, project managers and engineering team
• Manage technical risks and security implications
• Oversee code quality and consistency
• Create and execute deployment strategies
• Advocate for best practices

ENVIRONMENT: Client: AJAX, Backbone.js, Dust.js, jQuery, Underscore.js Data: MongoDB Deployment: GitHub, Grunt, Heroku Dev Env: Bower, Git, Grunt, Node, NPM, Sublime Text, Terminal QA: Chai.js, Mocha, PhantomJS Server: Dust.js, Express, Node.js

Technical Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Agile sprint planning sessions
• Attend daily scrum meetings during 3-week iteration cycles
• Track user stories and burn rate via Rally
• Addressed the team's need for common coding standards and naming conventions
• Proposed a variety of solutions for cross-origin API requests
• Introduced Compass CSS pre-processing to team
• Contributed Backbone.js functions and wrote a Backbone.js debugging utility
• Enforced the proper use of global js vars while advocating for the adoption of AMD
• Became recognized as a resident Mac environment troubleshooting specialist

ENVIRONMENT: Client: AJAX, Backbone.js, Bootstrap, Dust.js, jQuery, Compass, Underscore.js Data: JSON API Dev Env: Eclipse via Spring Tool Suite (STS), Nginx, Perforce, Sublime Text QA: Maui Test Framework Server: Java via Grails with Maven

Technical Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with on-site and remote teams to deliver dev assets on time and budget
• Solved IE-specific bugs (uncovering a jQuery bug in the process)

ENVIRONMENT: Client: AJAX, jQuery ev Env: Coda, Subversion (SVN), Versions

Developer, Reporting to CMO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support all internal/external marketing tools, blogs, sites, social media
• Practice Agile methodologies via JIRA and Confluence
• Decoupled marketing deployment process from product release cycles
• Produced lead generation scripts which the sales team adopted and employed
• Integrated custom event tracking with API's to calculate marketing ROI

ENVIRONMENT: Analytics: Google Analytics Client: 320andUp, AJAX, Bootstrap, Foundation, jQuery Data: Hadoop, Hive, MySQL Deployment: Apache, Bash, CentOS, Git, Nginx Dev Env: CentOS, Terminal, TextMate Marketing: Marketo Server: Django, Nginx SSI, PHP, Python, WordPress

Developer, Reporting to CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Practice Agile methodologies via daily scrum meetings
• Add new features and help maintain a custom, object-oriented PHP codebase
• Created an admin tool for editorial staff to dynamically curate a daily news email
• Produced all promotional email marketing campaigns
• Implemented custom tracking and maintained the company-wide analytics program

ENVIRONMENT: Analytics: Google Analytics Client: AJAX, jQuery, Processing.js Data: JSON, JSONP, MySQL Deployment: Git, Subversion (SVN) Dev Env: Coda, Charles Proxy, Litmus, Terminal QA: Cross - browser Testing Marketing: Campaign Monitor, Google Web Optimizer, Mailchimp Server: Apache, PHP, Ruby

Founder and CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain brand identity
• Position company and compete in the marketplace
• Create and sustain profitable SEO and SEM campaigns
• Cultivate customer demographic
• Author, maintain and execute product roadmap
• Manage deployments
• Administer and monitor servers
• Establish security and emergency recovery procedures
• Initiate intern program
• Optimize catalog data and on-site merchandising strategies
• Formulate social media campaigns
• Catapulted conversion rate by 300% and revenue by 925% in first 6 months
• Grew organic search traffic by 441% and referring traffic by 600% in first 6 months
• Reduced marketing overhead by 70% while increasing traffic and sales
• Slashed organic bounce rate by 72% overnight via Google Base customization
• Clarified order confirmation language, reducing post-sale customer inquiries by 50%
• Automated customer support via APIs
• Produced cost savings and improved security by migrating from Apache to Nginx
• Achieved dramatic performance gains by implementing a multi-layered caching architecture
• Pivoted business from wholesale model to affiliate model (preserving core competencies)

ENVIRONMENT: Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Base Client: 320andUp, AJAX, Cufon, jQuery, Typekit Data: MySQL Deployment: Capistrano, Git, RightScale Dev Env: Coda, Sublime Text, Terminal, TextMate Marketing: Google AdWords, Google Merchant, Mailchimp QA: Cross - browser Testing, Cross-device Testing Server: AWS, Apache, CentOS, Magento, Nginx, PHP, SSL, Ubuntu, Varnish

Developer, Digital

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transform Photoshop assets into functional styles/markup
• Collaborate with server-side team to implement dynamic functionality
• Provided front end dev assets for Nordstrom’s complete redesign
• Lead front end dev on WellHome.com through a successful national launch

ENVIRONMENT: Client: AJAX, Canvas, CSS3, Cufon, HTML5, jQuery, Modernizr, sIFR, Typekit Data: MySQL Deployment: Capistrano, Subversion (SVN) Dev Env: Coda, Terminal, YSlow QA: Cross - browser Testing Server: Apache, Expression Engine, PHP, Symfony

Web Marketing Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage email marketing, including designing/coding templates and composing copy
• Support SEM by reviewing keywords, click-through rates and overall campaign performance
• Conceptualize landing page tests, and implement them through design/code iterations and Google Website Optimizer’s A/B and multivariate testing capacities
• Collaborated with COO to achieve an 85% reduction in monthly email marketing costs
• Migrated email marketing program from one email marketing service provider to another
• Solved Google indexing problem, unlocking an entire SEO campaign in the process

ENVIRONMENT: Analytics: Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer Client: AJAX, CSS, HAML, jQuery Deployment: Capistrano, EngineYard Marketing: Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp Server: Ruby Gems, Ruby on Rails

Director, Web Development

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Secure client relationships and accounts, through physical and automated virtual networking
• Recruit graphic designers, web developers, copywriters, sales/support staff
• Establish project management standards
• Manage remote clients and team members
• Fulfill all front-end development requirements