Andrew Mclellan Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Conduct technical deep dives and in depth presentations for prospects and new customers Develop, document and implement workflows tailored to customer needsCollaborate with product teams to deliver custom features for customersDesign and optimize API workflowsConduct customer onboardings and trainingsStrategize and build proposals as part of our RFP process

Contributed to a complete rebuild of the content viewing experience for Newsela’s content platform, serving 90% of K-12 students across the US.Architected an approach to integrate interactive video to a new content page, providing millions of students and teachers access to thousands of educational videos.Mentored associate engineers through frequent pair programming and code reviews, with emphasis on video player technology.Developed and supported complex features including a read… Show more Contributed to a complete rebuild of the content viewing experience for Newsela’s content platform, serving 90% of K-12 students across the US.Architected an approach to integrate interactive video to a new content page, providing millions of students and teachers access to thousands of educational videos.Mentored associate engineers through frequent pair programming and code reviews, with emphasis on video player technology.Developed and supported complex features including a read aloud feature that leveraged Amazon Polly to provide more accessible and interactive content to students and teachers.Collaborated closely with product, design and QA to deliver high quality features with efficiency.Participated in accessibility audits and addressed hundreds of issues to make video and text content accessible to all users. Show less

Remote

Worked closely across several teams to coordinate releases and delivery of new interactive features.Designed and developed key features for an MVP that brought interactive video to thousands of students delivered just months post-acquisition.Collaborated toward a seamless migration of acquired tech from old HapYak AWS account to Newsela’s.Managed releases and oversaw deployments of Player and Studio applications.

Greater Boston / Remote

Contributed to now patented technology for dynamic value modifications in video.Maintained and developed new features for the core video.js playback engine.Experience with aws elastic transcode video compressionConceptualized, designed, and implemented innovative interactive video player featuresDesigned and executed configurable UI features including an interface for setting conditional state variances for player configuration.

Greater Boston

Developed a team of 3 additional engineers to provide white-glove technical support. Supervised and effectively managed bug triage and filing processes.Performed bug fixes on legacy video player integrations for OVPs like Brightcove, Youtube, Wistia, and others.Strategized, designed, and successfully implemented professional services solutions for A list clientsProvided white glove technical support and guidance for premier enterprise customers.Prepared customer code… Show more Developed a team of 3 additional engineers to provide white-glove technical support. Supervised and effectively managed bug triage and filing processes.Performed bug fixes on legacy video player integrations for OVPs like Brightcove, Youtube, Wistia, and others.Strategized, designed, and successfully implemented professional services solutions for A list clientsProvided white glove technical support and guidance for premier enterprise customers.Prepared customer code examples, solutions and comprehensive documentation. Show less

Boston, Ma

-Learned and developed skills as a full-stack web developer. -Comfortable working with: -Ruby on Rails -JS -React.js -CSS -HTML -RSPEC -Capybara -Enzyme/Jasmine-particular draw towards working in the back-end, building data structures using serializers, and learning new ways of understanding how data flows in my applications. -experience with TDD, as well as the Google Maps… Show more -Learned and developed skills as a full-stack web developer. -Comfortable working with: -Ruby on Rails -JS -React.js -CSS -HTML -RSPEC -Capybara -Enzyme/Jasmine-particular draw towards working in the back-end, building data structures using serializers, and learning new ways of understanding how data flows in my applications. -experience with TDD, as well as the Google Maps API, geokit-rails, and ActionCable. Show less

Greater Boston Area

Managed, coordinated, and assist in the planning of all Corporate and Social catered events at the Boston Children's Museum. Other responsibilities include: -Contributed to an annual sales budget of over $1 million -Reduced labor costs by managing staff hours on the fly -Event Execution/Staff Management -Event Staffing -Inventory Management -Alcohol Purchasing/Bar Management -Expense Reconciliation