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New York City Metropolitan Area

Brought in for the final third of a major rebranding project to streamline operations, troubleshoot issues, and ensure the successful relaunch of Sellit.com, an online education company specializing in sales training and consulting.⇨Helped guide the rebranding launch, resolving communication breakdowns between Product, Marketing, and Development teams and ensuring smooth system workflows between CRM and the WooCommerce platform.⇨Led troubleshooting efforts and refined system workflows to address and resolve issues causing delays in the launch. Delivered the final WordPress CMS marketing site rebrand under a tight deadline.⇨Coordinated Agile project management using ClickUp for ticketing and workflow optimization.⇨Evaluated web infrastructure and recommended optimizations to improve system performance and reliability.⇨Documented and managed system integrations, including WordPress, HubSpot, WooCommerce, Stripe, Make, Zapier, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, and Auth0.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Led the development and launch of TheMessenger.com, a startup general news site, building the entire web operations infrastructure from scratch on a tight budget and an accelerated timeline.⇨Hired alongside the CTO to build the team, technology, and launch strategy for an enterprise-level news website, delivering from concept to launch in under 6 months with a lean team of 4.⇨Utilized a team of in-house and outsourced developers to create a custom decoupled WordPress backend with a Next.js (React) frontend at scale.⇨Implemented Atomic Design Methodology and Storybook Development Environment to streamline the design-to-code process.⇨Built a WordPress CMS that supported over 200 users with Single Sign-On through Google Workspace, enabling centralized user management and the publication of more than 250 posts per day.⇨Established the web operations of the CMS, advertising, video, and frontend infrastructure.⇨Collaborated closely with design, advertising, social, photo/art, editorial, and executive teams to build out both backend workflows and frontend site features.⇨Adapted the Agile development process using Jira and GitHub to accommodate continuous deployment and rapid implementation of new features.

Greater New York City Area

After Nexstar's $130M acquisition of TheHill.com, led the migration of all The Hill content to Nexstar’s systems, ensuring seamless integration and continuity.⇨Managed day-to-day operations of Drupal while overseeing the migration of The Hill’s content to Nexstar’s in-house WordPress CMS.⇨Collaborated with Nexstar’s tech team for 6 months, focusing on the complex task of migrating over 60,000 videos and their metadata.⇨Developed and implemented a JSON content export API to facilitate continuous delivery of content, accommodating complex taxonomies and media for over 250,000 posts.(Offered a position to stay with Nexstar in the authentication segment but chose to accept an offer from a previous employer at The Messenger)

New York City Metropolitan Area

Oversaw the digital transformation and operational management of TheHill.com and its associated properties, driving significant growth and optimizing the web infrastructure.⇨Led the optimization, maintenance, and implementation of new features for TheHill.com, resulting in a 400%+ increase in user sessions and reaching 3M unique visits per day from just a few thousand when the role began.⇨Managed in-house and outsourced teams across DevOps, backend, and frontend web application development.⇨Directed the migration of TheHill.com from a colocation data center to AWS cloud infrastructure, reducing costs by 35% while expanding scalability, reliability, and redundancy, and increasing site speed by up to 50%.⇨Implemented a caching strategy using Fastly, reducing origin requests by 80% through VCL logic and image optimization without compromising the speed of new or updated content delivery.⇨Consolidated multiple content management systems (WordPress and Joomla) into a single platform (Drupal) and managed the technical components of 2 major site redesigns.⇨Directed 3 CMS migrations, 3 ad system transitions, and the implementation of a CDN.⇨Served as the lead support contact for the production team, troubleshooting issues with the content management system.

New Providence, New Jersey, United States

Oversaw the digital strategy and operations for multiple prominent brands, including Marquis Who’s Who, The Official Catholic Directory, The Official Museum Directory, The American Art Directory, and TheHill.com, with a primary focus on enhancing web presence and system infrastructure. (Dedicated 80% of efforts to The Hill)⇨Led outsourced development, database migration, and front-end interface for Who’s Who in America and nine associated web properties.⇨Migrated legacy ASPX web applications to Open Source platforms and implemented content management systems (Joomla/Drupal/WordPress).⇨Collaborated with Marketing, Design, Content Creators, and Data Management to manage all digital properties.⇨Built and relocated a new offsite colocation for systems redundancy, disaster recovery, and web app hosting.

New Providence, New Jersey, United States

⇨Managed Microsoft and Linux system support, web development, and operations.⇨Generated detailed stories and requirement tickets in JIRA for external development teams and conducted quality assurance for new developments.⇨Oversaw technical requirements for system operations, including web servers, databases, and content delivery networks.⇨Initiated work with The Hill in server systems operations.

New Providence, New Jersey, United States

⇨Provided comprehensive systems, network, and user support, including administration of Microsoft Active Directory and Linux (Red Hat), along with general user support across the organization. ⇨Responsibilities included general systems, network and user support.

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

⇨Managed the day-to-day content creation teams supporting both an e-commerce site as well as a magazine style news site.⇨Responsibilities included managing home page content, email newsletters and marketing efforts and content entry by several team members.