Managing all development and IT for Her Campus Media, the #1 media portfolio for college and GenZennial women. Leading the technical product engineering team that supports Her Campus, Spoon University, College Fashionista, and InfluenceHer Collective whih reach an audience of 38 million uniques every month, anchored in a community-driven model that counts 40,000 content creators at more than 1,400 colleges in our global network.

* Responsible for designing, implementing, training and supporting customers of our enterprise document classification & extraction system written in Java & running on Tomcat* Lead NIST security review for entire company and setup disaster recovery/business continuity plans* Responding to RFPs, writing up SOWs and providing answers to vendor risk assessments as part of the Professional Services team* Developed customized solutions for clients that were then turned into products and sold to other customers* Help lead the analysis & design around our next generation product, worked often with R&D team to align future development with client needs* Managed the IT infrastructure for a 40-person company, including cloud (Azure & AWS) deployments for client facing solutions* Lead the technical discussions during sales calls & kickoff meetings with C-level executives* Conducted interviewing and mentoring of team members in the Professional Services group* Managed team of offshore developers

* Managed team of 7 developers * Responsible for hiring new team members, and managing intern program* Rescued project that was in danger of missing deadline by quickly ramping up on Android development and completing custom surveying app for the MBTA used to survey over 7500 bus stops in the Boston area* Lead re-architecture of multiple Adobe Flex websites to .NET MVC Core* Designing performant and flexible REST APIs built in C# 6* Introduced TeamCity build server to get team using Continuous Integration & Deployment practices* Introduced Agile concepts to team and put into place basic project management procedures using Asana* Managed relationships with clients, developed project plans and schedules, writing responses to RFPs and participating in pre-bid meetings.

* Built kiosk software solution to be deployed as a sales information tool in floral departments of major Midwestern grocery chain* Continued to support & develop the PHP (laravel) platform running StandforTrees.org eCommerce engine* Designed petition system for StandForTrees in advance of COP 21 meetings to all our users to email world leaders as part of checkout flow* Switched payment integration for custom ASP.NET 3.5 eCommerce solution from end-of-life processing gateway to Authorize.net REST API* Implemented Google Tag Manager for StandForTrees* Managed the switch to outsourced development teams for ongoing project work for Stand for Trees site

* Rescued custom Wordpress website development project that was going to miss a critical launch date to coincide with major event* Led the technical side of rebranding/redesign effort for CodeREDD.org* Built custom ASP.NET MVC carbon calculator that ran on Azure and allowed people to purchase carbon offsets directly* Acted as Technical Consultant and Architect for StandforTrees.org project, helping to design critical REST API that would retire credits in real time* Switched company from Rackspace Cloud Servers to WPEngine cutting hosting costs in half* Switched Code REDD team from Rackspace email to Google Apps for Business – Nonprofit edition* Switched eCommerce systems from expensive custom built solution to Shopify, customized themes and helped maintain * Deployed Salesforce to help sales department track lead & sales* Built custom Wordpress themes for REDDTalks.org, TsavoConservancy.org and CodeREDD.org* Managed all the IT needs of company across 4 continents* Maintained various vendor relationships and negotiating annual contracts for internet service (fiber in Kenya, cable in the US and satellite in the DRC).* Switched corporate internet from expensive & buggy microwave technology to cable & negotiated contracts for service* Built network for corporate headquarters ensuring better security, deploying file servers for retention of 4 terrabytes of satellite & GIS files and ensuring backups of local user’s laptops for disaster recovery

* Lead strategic technology decisions for $5M eCommerce system and 35-person company* Built IT staff from scratch hiring and mentoring 3 programmers and 1 network admin* Lead build outs of 3 different offices, coordinating internal phone & network wiring, service hookups and server installations* Built from the ground up custom gifting eCommerce system (cart, cms, marketing, merchandising, fulfillment, customer service, multi-site functionality, etc) built initially in .NET 1.1 and SQL Server 2000, as well as then leading the upgrade to .NET 2.0/Master Pages, and eventually .NET 3.5* Built integrations with numerous outside REST & SOAP APIs (Responsys, ExactTarget, ClearCommerce, PayPal, BillMeLater, UPS, FedEx etc.) * Managed ETL integrations with partner sites (Drugstore.com, Harry & David.com, AKAWine.com, Amazon.com, etc.) including coding up EDI interface* Managed IT vendor relationships including renegotiating costs* Moved site from shared hosting solution, to dedicated servers to RackSpace Cloud architecture while being responsible for IIS & SQL Server maintenance* Reduced IT costs by over 50% during corporate restructuring* Lead major software evaluation processes (both ERP and possible eCommerce re-platforming)

* Was principle architect and developer on multiple large scale eCommerce projects* Mentored and managed a team of developers including performance reviews* Managed schedules and ensured on-time delivery of projects* Led code reviews and technology sessions to keep team’s skills up to date* Performed SWOT analysis of IT systems for potential acquisitions* Responsible for gathering requirements from clients via onsite visits and conference calls* Generated workflow, business processes and requirements documents for both developers and end-clients to use