SUMMARY

• Over 18 years of information technology and consulting experience in the digital services, marketing and advertising industries.
• Full knowledge of web and mobile applications. Proven proficiency in web development and project management.
• Clientele has included pharmaceutical, retail, educational, publishing, travel and government organizations.
• A technical professional with excellent leadership skills and ability to establish and build positive, solid relationships with clients and vendors.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Digital Marketing
• Open Source CMS
• Client Management
• Capacity Planning
• Financial Analysis
• Team Management
• Solutions Advice
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Leadership
• System Testing
• Complex Product Implementation
• Service Delivery
• Application Support
• Data Management
• Account Management Services
• Business Solutions
• Mobile Applications
• Training
• Confidential Managed Cloud Services
• Languages: English, Spanish

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS and Bootstrap

Databases: MS SQL, MySQL and MS Access

Tools: Sublime Text, Dreamweaver, NetBeans, Subversion and Photoshop

CMS: Sitecore and WordPress

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Basecamp and Trello

Cloud Platform: Confidential and Amazon Web Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Performed the discovery of a potential Sitecore project to determine the client's critical needs addressing issues from technical infrastructure to business organization.
• Lead a technical business team to define the client deliverable for a long - term enterprise scope.
• Collaborated with producers and strategists to refine the project deliverable.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Associate Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical direction and overview of the software development cycle in an agile fashion.
• Collaborated with the producer throughout the project scope aligning priorities and categorizing tasks/deliverables into sprints and level-of-effort and flagging potential issues.
• Responsible for setting up and managing JIRA for issue and project tracking by categorizing development tasks into Sprints, Epics and Issues.
• Worked with the design and UX teams in an advising role.
• Provided technical documentation and recommendations for platform hosting, personalization solutions and content migration.
• Managed front-end development team and provided direction and support for external back­end Drupal 8 developers.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed direct client relationship with Confidential ( Confidential ) account daily from the technical side.
• Directed and managed front-end development team, serving as lead in providing technical direction for external back-end Sitecore and mobile developers.
• As web manager and Confidential hosting administrator- oversaw all aspects of the Confidential online operations including hybrid cloud based infrastructure, security and performance.
• Created technical documentation for requirements gathering and future deliverables.
• Established and maintained effective working relationships with third-party vendors including Confidential, Direct Flights, Confidential and Confidential .
• Worked with project manager in realigning priorities, adjusting timelines, identifying potential risks and vetting third party content feeds such as APIs and JSON.
• Served as system administrator for JIRA and Confluence, Windows, MSSQL and Sitecore.
• Managed the overall Quality Assurance (QA) process including selecting a QA vendor.

Confidential, New York City, NY

WordPress / PHP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented websites from initial concept, site architecture, and user interface to finished deliverable using clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code.
• Developed front-end and back-end website projects using HTML, CSS, jQuery and PHP.
• Customized SEM system-wide PHP user session based tracking program and Gravity Forms including storage of information on MySQL databases.
• Facilitated client WordPress training, site documentation and maintenance to ensure the efficient operation and use of websites.
• Developed and managed the company blog for this lifestyle magazine firm using WordPress, PHP, MySQL and jQuery technologies.
• Created and implemented 2 custom business directories modules complete with tracking system to monitor and report the online activities of vendors.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Creative Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented websites and hardware for advertising and pharmaceutical clients of this full-service agency using ASP, ASP.Net and MS SQL.
• Worked with Project Managers to determine client needs and customized existing technology to meet requirements.
• Managed and oversaw all phases of software development life cycle including analysis, design, functionality, testing and support.
• Incorporated use of programming tools including C# into website development for clients.
• Managed and oversaw administrator functions for assigned clients Web/SQL development.