Drive a team largely made of associate level engineers to tackle new and business critical areas of focus for the company . The team started with only a focus on building a new Game Center for Sinclair news sites and improving Core Web Vital performance scores, but evolved quickly over the course of a year.The team focuses culture around education and support to challenge inexperienced engineers in achieving success in critical areas of focus and accelerate profession growth on the job.Areas of Focus- Generative AI solutions.- Salesforce CDP, website personalization and newsletter marketing.- Website feature development.- Pipeline and developer workflow optimizations.- Core Web Vital and Lighthouse Performance Scores.- Sinclair Game Center and on air contesting flows.

Operated as any in house instructor to support Sinclair Digital's associate developer program through creation of learning material and working directly with engineers to coach them through tasks.

Business focused on helping WordPress agencies automate work flows and assist with complex development tasks.

Leading instructor for a 6 month boot camp on full stack development covering git, html, css, javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Node, Express, React and MySql.

• Assisted in developing a Facebook App with Lararvel. The app allows PBHS clients to streamline syndicating content from their website, such as blog posts, to their Facebook pages.• Built a custom Rest API framework integrating https://github.com/eosnewmedia/JSON-API-Common and the Wordpress REST library for easily creating new json rest routes in Wordpress that automatically conform to many of the JSON:API specification standards.• Built a custom Wordpress Plugin which utilizes the https://github.com/mrclay/minify library to automatically bundle and minify shared javascript and css resources on a Wordpress Multisite Network supporting several thousand websites. The switch from the open source bundling plugin we were using to the one I built resulted in over a 50% reduction in the number of resource bundles being generated by our servers.• Developed and designed an extensible client admin UI and UX for managing website options, configuring template layouts, and editing content.• Executed the configuration and deployment of a segmented scalable WordPress Multisite database strategy. Managed the data migration from the original configuration to the new.• Worked closely with all company departments to create tools that assist in task automation to improve productivity.• Developed web data mining tools on Apify.com to pull review information from Google, Yelp, RateMDs, Rateabiz, Vitals and ZocDoc and an API bridge and job management system in Wordpress for queueing up and sending requests to Apify and listeners to accept responses from their web hooks.• Successful integration with numerous APIs such as Typekit, CloudFlare, MaxCDN, Google Maps and Wistia for feature automation.• Created numerous coding libraries, tools and patterns for assisting Wordpress Themers in quickly building out custom client designs.• Experience working with multilingual content, auto translation services and providing user control over moderating translations.