Bradley Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

Greater Boston Area

General- Continue previous tasks of Senior Full Stack Developer- Serve as developer advocate to encourage others to attend conferences, share work, and participate in community eventsWordPress- Served as chief technical stakeholder for Boston.com, BostonGlobeMedia.com, loveletters.boston.com, realestate.boston.com, and sponsored.bostonglobe.com.- Managed team of developers that perform development and maintenance tasks on WordPress team- Helped size tickets and prioritize work for upcoming agile sprints- Implemented automated developer workflow using Jenkins Pipelines and Github- Oversaw complete site redesign for Boston.com- Led effort to update architecture to PHP7 (and later PHP8)- Migrated code repositories to Github from SVNInnovation- Organized bi-annual company-wide hackdays with focus on innovation- Administered BrightIdea innovation platform- Selected as member of internal innovation team headed by VP of Innovation and Special Projects.Data Collection- Pitched and won funding for internal data collection team to focus on journalistic data.- Recruited and hired first hire- Setup a working process for data requests with stakeholders- Helped integrate ChatGPT into a scraping process to acquire data previously thought unfeasible.- Took ownership over AP election feed ingestion processes

Greater Boston Area

BostonGlobe.com Sports Section Redesign- Part of team that completed rewrite of sports section into single page application using React.js with Redux communicating with REST API- Created UI and interactive React components to satisfy needs of design- Implemented JavaScript unit testing framework using Karma and Jasmine- Authored Webpack plugin to automatically generate code and architecture documentation- Helped lead effort to address lingering tech debt post-launchBoston.com- Implemented and extended a WordPress plugin for Apple News Format- Performed code reviews for peers- Mentored junior developers with a focus on methodical code debuggingCross-Team- Served as cross team advocate for each site team, giving each team awareness of current projects- Organized bi-weekly Lunch n' Learn sessions across five development teams

Powet.TV is a news site focused on movies, comic books, toys and video games. In addition to offering news in a blog style format, Powet.TV also puts forth a large quantity of video content. Video content can include: movie reviews, toy reviews, gaming hardware retrospectives, game reviews and more. Powet.TV is constantly looking to expand its content to meet the needs of the subject matter experts in the topics covered. Powet.TV also features a message board where fans and interested parties can exchange information and witty quips.As a system administrator, I co-founded Powet.TV and maintain the WordPress blogging software that the main news content lives in. I am constantly considering how to leverage our technology and add new technology to make the site more helpful and informative. As an editor, I contribute news and content to the site and oversee the rest.

Greater Boston Area

- Lead Facilitator/Teacher for Samsung Mobile U tour promoting STEM education at community and technical colleges across the country.- Backend PHP developer for WordPress based solutions including integrating a barcode scanner, SFTP based file retrieval, cron based file processing, Twitter campaign tracking and curation, etc.- Technical lead and architect for microsite publishing platform built on WordPress

Greater Boston Area

Member of the Site Operations team specializing in PHP, Javascript and WordPress development.Site Operations Engineer- Troubleshoot issues reported by clients- Proposed enhancement to client WordPress themes- Modified, debugged, and enhanced scalable themes according to WordPress.com VIP coding standardsInternal Training Coodinator- Organized monthly "Lunch 'n Learn" training sessions- Conducted training sessions - JavaScript fundamentals - Data Visualization: Why and How - PHP Dependency Management w/ Composer and WordPressBlog Contributor- Monitoring Events in the JavaScript Console (http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2014-01/monitoring-events-javascript-console/)- SCRIPT_DEBUG in WordPress (http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-09/thinking2013-09script_debug-in-wordpress-%E2%80%8E/)- NortheastPHP and Composer (http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-08/northeast-php-and-composer-%E2%80%8E/)- OpenVis Conf Recap: How Data Comes to Life (http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-05/open-vis-recap-how-data-comes-to-life/)

Junior Programmer using technologies including VBA, ASP, SQL, ORACLE, MS Access, IIS, Tomcat, BEA Weblogic, Python, etc.,.

Domain Admin for a Windows 2000 Active Directory network, Managed and maintained all PC system deployments to employees, fulfilled the role of help desk support for entire company with one other employee, used scripting to automate many tasks, monitored data backups nightly