Technical Platform Administrator
Halifax, Canada Area
Teamed with an exceptional community of media and technical professionals, I executed 500 mile strategy balancing growth across standing and emergent online business units - building thechronicleherald.ca from 500 visitors a day in 2005 to 3.2 million visitors a month in 2011 - while increasing daily print circulation to 210,000+ paid subscribers.Was directly responsible for daily operation and integration of legacy to online content delivery systems, security, editorial/sales support and mentoring - as well as multimedia production, realtime network deployment and Virtual Machine (VM) scaling planning.Upon passing 12 million monthly pageview milestones in 2009, I was promoted to full time Systems Architecture and Analytics responsibilities, supporting a growing contract and webservices team tasked with a whole platform 'Website of Record' migration deploying Apache Solr, Drupal, Varnish and OpenVZ GPL service solution stacks.