Manage department budget, distributed development teams, support marketing department, manage hosting and site security, daily site operations, and domains. Manage sites across multiple platforms and hosting companies. Translate conceptual business/user requirements for updates and new features into functional requirements for the development teams. Manage code release process via GIT. Manage and monitor AWS systems for primary site.Achievements:• Internal technical lead for website redesign and planning for Drupal 8 conversion.• Coded and released new site design for yosemite-tours.com.• Managed integration of Rezdy booking engine replacing legacy cart system - on time and budget.• Created training videos for guest services team to utilize new booking system.• Reduced outsourcing budget and time overages of development teams.• Reduced site hosting expenditures.

Process improvement and Vendor change managment. Focus on defining requirements, Jira process definition, and BOM form consolidation

Hire, manage and supervise development team members, internal staff and distributed contractors. Responsible for directing teams and defining tasks in creation of Drupal 7 website and accompanying CMS systems. Define and schedule tasks by priority to meet project timeline. Conduct regular meetings with product owners/team members to discuss product progress, new feature requests and issues. Conduct Q/A testing on code sets ready for integration, and push­back as necessary. Run release process for final code into production site using GIT and Pantheon tools, Apply defined configuration from specs and defined Q/A release notes. Gather business requirements from product owner and key stakeholders. Scope technical requirements with team input; review plans with a focus for the end-user experience and business rules. Evaluate, collaborate on, and troubleshoot solutions from developers to meet the business goals of the feature set and integrate seamlessly with code from others on the team. Architect the data structure and the back-end controls for sites.Achievements● Managed team through creation and updates of multiple websites and features built across multiple platforms: using ColdFusion, Drupal/MySQL, PHP/Mongo, and WordPress.o Integrating the platforms to run off common data sets keeping records aligned.● Researched, selected, and installed new cloud email delivery systems after unexpected system failure, resulting in savings of $2,600/month.● Manage technical aspects of purchase and sale of digital assets, including site and user data, domains and email address redirects in multiple transactions.o Ported WordPress site from previous owner’s platform to Pantheon Webhosting.o Technical advisor for sale process of 2 websites in PHP/Mongo. Sold for >$1Million.● Manage definition and implementation of social professional community product generating $1.5M/year.

Identify, evaluate, engage and manage vendors to support network, perform proactive maintenance and improvements. Manage and maintain cloud-based solution for email and site hosting DNS and domain management of over 300 domains. Support and manage network of 50+ local and remote users in day-to-day operations and workstation operations. Manage MS­SQL database upgrade project engaging outsourced and internal talent. Manage transition from QuickBooks and Maximizer CRM into NetSuite cloud-­based CRM/Accounting solution.

Designed, developed and maintained websites in ColdFusion and MS­SQL. Developed new features or revisions to current CF sites. Performed detailed data import and validation processes using Access and Excel and MS­SQL. Managed MS­SQL database architecture, creation, replication, and stability.