Althea Weeks Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

I am the designated technical advisor for a small group among Acquia's most prominent customers.My customers' success is my only job. They trust my advice to get the most out of Acquia's platform without any influence to buy "X" or adopt "Y".I embed with my customers' business and technical teams. I am steeped in their current operations, and contribute to their long term plans.

- Provide professional services to governments, corporations, academia, digital marketing agencies, and non-profits- Focus on systems analysis and technical architecture from a "business needs first" perspective- Develop projects from scratch, support existing web applications, or re-implement legacy applications in modern technologies.- According to project needs, lead and/or support teams of developers, coordinate with stakeholders, and identify improvements in processes or communication to improve potential for project success.- Selected clients/projects: Colorado.gov, Spire Digital, One Earth Future Foundation, St. Vrain Valley School District, Todd Reed Jewelers, Urban Interactive Studio

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Advised the organization during their transition from an external development agency to internal product support- Owned two major research labs’ migration projects; one from a 10+ year old static HTML site, and one from an 8 year old Drupal 7 application.- Advocated client needs across decentralized organization with competing deadlines and priorities

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Audited the organization’s Drupal practices and architecture- Translated organization’s complex subscription-based content permissions to Drupal role-based permissions system- Delivered report on opportunities to better integrate Acquia’s Drupal Cloud with existing Azure-based infrastructure and DNS.

Austin, Texas, Us

- Hired as Drupal Architect and technical lead for 3-developer team; grew to 5.- My team was responsible for engineering and operating the main austintexas.gov digital experience for dozens of municipal departments, commissions, city council, city manager, clerk, airport, etc. - Performed 1-month audit and formal documentation of Drupal application architecture.- Coordinated migration from a custom AWS infrastructure to a Kubernetes-based platform. Wrangled technical plans and resolved planning conflicts between one team building new functionality, and another team building the new k8s infrastructure.- Designed and built new document management system for Office of Police Oversight as a two-person team. Integrated with JSON APIs from a Wagtail / Django / Python application. Wrote a custom module for content migration and added multilingual support.- Improve application accessibility and front-end code in support of a major a11y initiative.- Provide technical solutions and open data analysis as part of a cross-departmental initiative to expand multilingual functionality on austintexas.gov- Coordinate and improve software release cycle.- Upgraded austintexas.gov to Drupal 9.

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- Drupal 8 Application support and improvements for authenticated user portal- Create headless Drupal APIs in collaboration with dedicated front end React.js engineers- Complex Azure cloud infrastructure scaling and debugging

Denver, Co, Us

- Architecture, design, implementation, and support for suite of custom Drupal 8 applications for publicly traded international hotel franchising corporation.- Moved an entire network of hotel brands from an external proprietary web service to a built-from-scratch custom Drupal 8 application in 4 weeks as half of a 2-person Drupal effort- Designed & executed new hosted service offering for company (B2B platform to allow independent hotel owners to build and manage mobile-ready websites with no code required) with full infrastructure plan for scaling from pilot customers to thousands. (Solo project – Drupal 8, Lightning 4, Acquia BLT)- Mentored and trained two junior developers with no Drupal experience. Both shipped major new functionality for the company in the first 6 weeks, and led recommendations for application stack modernization in first 6 months.- Assisted corporate executive team (mostly at VP and C-level) with definition and rapid execution of new business initiatives

Took ownership of technical architecture for company's established and growing Drupal applications, including:- Company's custom Drupal-based platform, used to host websites for hundreds of state and local entities- Rebuild of http://www.colorado.gov on Drupal- Research & development of new products & development toolsOverhauled company's Agile development practices, increased release frequency, raised team communications transparency, improved technical review processesTransformed an existing Drupal product from minimum viable product into a stable, scalable oneCreated and implemented technical strategies with an emphasis on scalability, quality, and return on investmentRetained company as consulting client of Blazing Wheel LLC; latest engagement: 2017

Provided development services with a team known for quality and Agile proficiencyPerformed custom Drupal engineering for several high-ranking agencies in the executive branch of the U.S. governmentTransformed underperforming initiatives with project management process improvements and Agile practicesChampioned initiatives for free/libre open source and open data in government and civic web applicationsFollowed rigorous security procedures and clearance processes (public trust, national security) when necessaryCollaborated with company partner Nuams in support of DKAN, the Drupal open data platformWrote successful proposals with sales staff, tailoring technical elements to fit prospects' unique needsAdvised non-profits on cost-effective improvements to their Drupal applicationsConducted all collaboration with coworkers and clients online as part of a fully distributed company

Managed quality review and complete refactoring of company’s previous flagship productBecame product manager of new flagship product; coordinated original ideation process, identified opportunities for initial product; managed quality assurance and feature additions of following release cyclesHeaded definition and implementation of new product development workflow (including continuous integration, Git, quality assurance, release deployment to client install base)Coordinated development of Software-as-a-Service products and custom applicationsDirected design and quality assurance process for conversion of products to responsive mobile-first and content-first theme frameworksConverted prototype projects to scalable, reusable, abstracted tools with quick turnaroundsManaged cross-functional team of onsite and remote members- 70% developers, 15% designers, 15% account managersRetained company as consulting client of Blazing Wheel, LLC (Most recent engagement: 2016)

Leveraged WordPress and Drupal platforms (plus modern HTML/CSS/JavaScript) to build CMS applications from initial site maps and mockupsRevised the agency’s main Brand Foundation service to improve project specifications for improved development efficiency & cross-functional project communicationDeveloped onetribecreative.com agency portfolio from scratch in jQuery+HTML+CSS3Served as technical coordinator for e-commerce operations of multiple national brands