■ Managed the growth, brand maturity, and market adaptability of a leading WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner.■ Responsible for organization wide day-to-day tactical and strategic operational decisions directly impacting P&L and reinvestment strategies.■ Drove revenue growth 650% over 2.5 years and through a bear market, while also growing the team capacity 550% with higher margins and reduced turnover.■ Coordinated the adoption of clearer process documentation, streamlined customer & people onboarding, enterprise tool rollouts, security & disaster recovery plans, and change management across all departments.■ Developed sales strategies that grew the average number of active projects by 400%.■ Spearheaded the development of a careers framework and transition from an egalitarian to hierarchical organization structure with mentorship and support as the foundation.■ Coordinated the definition of all job roles with clear expectations and responsibilities.■ Collaborated on the growth of new partnerships and sales channels.■ Fostered a culture of inclusion, diversity, support, and continual learning.■ Implemented various Open Source contribution programs, which included adding several engineers to the WordPress Performance team led by Google.■ Mentored people in engineering, design, delivery, and sales, and supported people operations growth and efficacy.■ Developed and implemented a 2-year organization scaling plan, expanding the team from 20 to 130 people and increasing the enterprise customer base by 500%.

■ Architecture, emphasis on OOP and designing for testability■ Understanding the integrations with other systems and where WordPress fits into the overall puzzle.■ Foreseeing and advising Clients on the business and long term implications of technical decisions, especially as they relate to WordPress Core■ Guiding development, providing direction and consultation on tasks. Developing the implementation of key architectural pieces, but as much as possible delegating and empowering engineers to build out the architecture.■ Leading the estimation of project implementation.■ Leading the creation of technical tasks in JIRA and supporting delegation■ Code review ■ Review for architectural implications, avoiding technical debt ■ Empower engineers to take ownership over peer review without architect input, with ability to identify code that does need escalation for architect input■ Facilitation of unit testing and acceptance testing■ Working with Technology (e.g. CTO) on documenting, developing, troubleshooting and improving dev tooling and workflows■ Leading communication with VIP / hosting platform■ WordPress local environment configuration, and planning support for environment/hosting migrations (supported by Technology)■ Identifying defects and needed feature enhancements in core, and communicating them to CCT for implementation.■ Reporting to Team Lead and supporting their planning and risk mitigation■ Helping to create understanding between engineers and clients■ Supporting the engineers in consistently following XWP best practices■ Building a community of support by sharing knowledge and insight amongst team members■ Periodic check-ins with other XWP WordPress Architects■ Keep up to date on the latest developments and best practices in architecture and engineering, specifically in the WordPress context■ Supporting recruiting efforts through candidate code reviews and technical interviews

■ Architecting and developing extensible Customizer focused plugins for WordPress■ Developing and reviewing software requirements, designs, and software test plans■ Debugging and troubleshooting code following internal QA processes■ Refactoring existing codebases to meet industry standards■ Developing tools and services for automating tasks

■ Successfully navigated the nuances of a globally distributed team using agile development methods■ Built and maintained several high traffic domains including Market Blog, Tuts+, FreelanceSwitch, AppStorm, Envato, RockablePress, WorkAwesome, and dozens more■ Constructed advanced integrations through various authentication methods using in-house & third party systems such as Envato API, GitHub, PayPal, Amazon S3, Travis CI, bbPress, BuySellAds, MailChimp, aMember, CodeIgniter, and countless others■ Developed and maintained numerous GPL Open Source products, most notably OptionTree■ Maintained various website networks which serviced a thriving community of millions■ Entrusted with root level access to critical systems and servers■ Analyzed and interpreted analytics in order to optimize server speed, SEO, page load times, and user experience with multivariate testing, query optimization, caching, and other methods■ Created WordPress project boilerplates for continuous integration, unit testing, and build scripts■ Delivered quality products on short deadlines■ Adopted emerging technologies such as Sass and Grunt before they were industry standards and pioneered early adoption of responsive design■ Tasked to produce in environments with nearly zero direction

■ Developed master-level proficiency in modern web best-practices■ Acclimated quickly to emerging technologies■ Significant field experience with WordPress, and fully bespoke solutions■ Built dozens of custom themes and plugins for clients such as BuySellAds, and FreshBooks■ Savvy with PHP, PHPUnit, Git, Grunt, Sass, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, LAMP Stack, Adobe, and the Serial Comma