Derek Kessler Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio, United States

- Directed military operational planning, forecasting, and training to effectively utilize limited resources and time while balancing mission success and team welfare.- Led collaborative mission development and training sessions that encouraged input from all levels.- Provided peer and subordinate training and mentoring to support career development and.

Columbus, Ohio

- Developed and deployed new company branding, marketing guide, strategy, and promotional materials.Led ensemble video production process that twice won service-wide peer-voted awards.- Created training and operational frameworks and comprehensive documentation to ensure smooth hand-off of responsibilities.- Performance narrator that addressed in-person.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Clarinet section leader

Ohio, United States

- Performed Military Funeral Honors for more than 2,000 veteran and KIA funerals, including rifle salutes, flag fold and presentations, and pre-mission coordination and training.- Awarded Army Achievement Medal.

- Lead editorial resurrection of languishing legacy tech media brand, growing traffic by 400% and audience engagement by more than 500%.

- Overhauled legacy CMS front-end design and code to support new commerce goals while meeting modern standards.- Upgraded front-end system to streamline and accelerate implementation of multiple distinct commerce brands on a shared framework.- Conducted traffic analysis to optimize commerce designs to improve retention and CTR.- Modernized HTML, CSS, and.

- Led the development of new commerce-centric internal and customer functionality vital to building new global revenue streams targeting more than 400 million monthly sessions.- Ensured high standards were enforced during CMS migrations of high-profile brands.

Busy Pixel Media (acquired by Valnet in 2022)- Built highly flexible and customizable multi-brand Drupal-based CMS supporting visually distinct brand front-ends.- Managed migration of legacy WordPress database to modern CMS and led global editorial staff training and support.- Coordinated with editorial staff leads to determine core product needs, define.

- Coordinated content database migration between custom CMS platforms, ensuring 10+ years of legacy content translated cleanly and editorial teams received appropriate training.- Created plan to support brand-level site customization on shared CMS, supporting distinct brands and layouts to accommodate varied editorial goals.- Rebuilt corporate and.

- Bridged the design, engineering, and editorial teams to continually upgrade custom CMS to modern web standards and meet ever-evolving editorial, commerce, and community needs, serving 100+ internal users and 100 million external users.- Developed internal CMS tools to support commerce analytics and marketing efforts while simultaneously streamlining.

webOS Nation (formerly PreCentral)- Led global editorial and community teams through a dynamic and challenging news and commerce environment.- Directed branding transition to support broadened editorial coverage domains.- Published timely and critical editorials and reviews that set the tone for site coverage and community engagement.

- Wrote news, editorials, guides, and reviews for enthusiast audience of burgeoning webOS tech platform.- Trained new hires on custom internal CMS and editorial processes.

Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area