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Develop e-commerce and marketing projects, with WordPress, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon technologies: ⦿ Increased sales by 380% with user-focused marketing, fixed price offerings, and increased production capacity with outsourced design and development teams. ⦿ Improved availability with increased uptime (from 96% to 99.9%), more resilient hosting (from shared and DigitalOcean VPS to Google Cloud Platform), and automation (from ManageWP to Roots, Kinsta tools, and SpinupWP). ⦿ Reduced project maintenance times (from 12 hours per month, on average, to less than 4), by onboarding tested update automation routines, reducing solution complexity and toughening selection criteria for includable components. ⦿ Onboarded and led the implementation of AI-based and API-based automation and production processes for automated project auditing, content development (including textual and image payloads), and research. ⦿ Increased Gross Profit Margin for overall portfolio from 21% to 54% with automation (reducing project initiation and maintenance time), refined implementation processes (improving consistency while reducing complexity) and outsourcing (for imaging and client content requests).SAMPLE PROJECTS + Infrastructure outsource and DevOps: PittsburghOct27.org, JewishPGH.org, Foundation.JewishPGH.org, KettererCharter.org + Design and development: CWBPgh.org, MigrateAndUpdate.com, GreenLivesMatter.space, Occupy51.com

Implement marketing and e-commerce solutions for client projects, built on leading data center technologies, WordPress and industry leading services: ⦿ Shortened average project development life cycle and increased production capacity with the introduction of modern tools and processes: Page Builders, component testing and selection criteria, meta data and database customization for project-fit precision builds ⦿ Increased production capacity and production quality by training and mentoring colleagues from differing disciplines (digital design, web development, content development, project management), enabling seasoned contributors as well as fresh talent to produce as required in pre-release contexts as well as in Production. ⦿ Introduced modern and sustainable server configuration and security practices, as well as first-in-company maintenance and continuity standards. ⦿ Supported first steps of internal AI-based research and code generation efforts by designers and developers. ⦿ Reduced operating expenses by retiring legacy assets in controlled operations designed to preserve history and past work products, refocusing the internal palette of tools and components used in project development, and onboarding more efficient meeting and training practices.SAMPLE PROJECTS + JFCS.org + AdoptionConnection.JFCS.org + SeniorsAtHome.JFCS.org + MySourcePoint.org + BreatheProject.org + ExploreAltoona.com + BloodScienceFoundation.org + DrainBrainUniversity.com (and DrainBrain.com) + MyHACP.org and Support.MyHACP.org (and HACP.org)

Create and maintain performance R&D tools and processes. Service internal customers with solutions based upon these tools: ⦿ Reduced QA and R&D project delivery time by 60 - 90% (depending upon project type), from over a week to 24 hours, by implementing 24/7/365 provisioning and test automation; and automated reporting and status checks. ⦿ Increased service capacity by 200 - 300% (from 1 project at a time to 3 - 4 concurrent projects), by implementing rapid instantiation practices and training feature teams to participate in the performance R&D life cycle. ⦿ Introduced hard data collection, collation and analysis practices to inform project release decisions.SAMPLE PROJECTS + Live Video, Related Photos, MSN Ads (MSNBC) + NBC Sports and CNBC CMS (MSNBC/NBC News) + Weather.com integration

Provide Quality Assurance services for sensitive encryption products in the government services and military sectors:⦿ Established QA standards and procedures for planning and defect tracking in an environment that had not previously implemented any formal QA.⦿ Owned Common Criteria documentation deliverables in first phase of government certification.⦿ Contributed to ongoing UI design and client functionality planning (including handheld device as key platform).

System administration, software testing, and software development roles in multiple Microsoft organizations, including MSN, IES, Proxy, Windows International, and more.⦿ Provided platform PAG development ("Prescriptive Architecture Guides"), research, and QA for prepackaged web hosting solutions, plus prepackaged intranet and extranet hosting solutions.⦿ Led CoreNet and AppCompat QA teams (Windows International) during multiple release projects and Y2K readiness rebuilds.⦿ Managed Redmond lab for Proxy/ISA and IVR product teams (included resource management, system and user support, and incident response).⦿ Served on Help Desk vendor selection committee and on Help Desk implementation team (MSN and ISBU). Managed multiple internal MSN datacenter R&D environments of various scales (included code propagation duties for incremental live MSN updates).

Led QA and infrastructure projects in a multi-discipline product group in an AT&T Wireless and Fluor Daniel joint venture.⦿ Created end-to-end test coverage plans (included all cases, reporting analytics, and training materials for test engineers and business analysts).⦿ Created core QA intelligence instruments (included data and state maps, defect tracking and management system, and presentation and reporting templates).⦿ Mentored junior personnel and secondary contributors.⦿ Supported organizational network and computing resources with hardware config and maintenance routines, access controls and internal security management, and user support for internal and guest personnel.

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