Isaac White Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

• As an Elections Readiness Lead, pair with teams among 600+ person engineering group on root cause analysis to improve resiliency at peak traffic• Spearheaded modernization of distributed 2022 Elections publishing and page configuration systems used to publish millions of real-time updates over dozens of election nights for hundreds of millions of readers• Architected newsroom data acquisition framework, called Skyscraper, that empowers engineers and editors to cover breaking news from one-off requests for investigations to government data crawlers across hundreds of pages used by the NYT Needle • Led development of data entry app for 2024 Polling Averages coverage of US Presidential race for millions of readers• As Architecture Review Board Chairperson, led a group of 16 engineers to review RFCs and collaborated with senior management to improve the technical decisions and foundational architecture of the New York Times• Led effort to develop a new solution for platform-integrated developer previews to streamline and empower engineers across NYT to see their features execute in a realistic context, enabling more reliable testing of interactive content prior to publication• Defined roadmap and prioritized work as Tech Lead for improving supportability of NYT’s primary interactive quiz building tool, called Adventure, unlocking capacity to explore new innovative content and deepen engagement with millions of readers

New York, Ny, Us

• Served as Co-Tech lead for our 2020 elections platform, leading a group of 40+ editors and engineers to collaborate on reader-facing presentations and analysis of all federal elections in the United States across hundreds of live updating pages• Collaborated with teams across NYT to develop new capabilities that integrated smoothly with core systems, such as Google AMP integration to boost SEO performance and an Interactive publishing service that unlocked results-speed throughput• Led team of cross functional contributors to develop a mobile app preview tool for web developers called Zelus, enabling more rigorous testing of potential quirks of interactive experiences within the NYT iOS and Android apps• Built and led the open-sourcing of Library, a collaborative wiki backed by Google Docs, relied upon by over two thousand newsroom and technology NYT employees, as well as the LA Times and Star Tribune with over 900 stars on GitHub• As Tech lead for SMS and push notification experiments, led a team of two other engineers to support personalized, real-time coverage for tens of thousands of NYT readers, from the Pyeongchang Olympic games through the 2018 midterm elections• Built Stylebot, a custom Slackbot that enables reporters throughout the newsroom to quickly check NYT Stylebook rules

New York, Ny, Us

• Co-architected Chatblog, a live coverage tool for editing and publishing of reporter commentary from Slack to NYTimes.com• Lead development of a responsive homepage prototype for NYTimes.com• Lead frontend developer for Following, a new feature allowing readers to follow their favorite authors and topics and receive push notifications on new publish events• Built and released the Top Stories API, a public service exposing ranked content from the NYT homepage and section fronts, which powers integrations such as the Samsung Smart Fridge announced at CES 2016• Maintain and enhance code standards as a JavaScript and Sass/HTML code reviewer

New York, Ny, Us

• Assist with configuration of Drupal feed imports for aggregation of data on new Sports Illustrated web site• Focus on enhancing basic import functionality to schedule checking of data sources at precise intervals, times of day, and seasons of the year

New York, New York, Us

• Direct development and maintenance of student newspaper web site with 700,000 page views/month• Led visual redesign of main online site and development of special features for supplements, timelines and maps online• Recruit and train 15+ new members about web best practices when working with CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and basic SVG• Coordinate with section editors to design and develop section-specific features to be incorporated into the web site.

New York, New York, Us

• Established and maintained design standards that contributed to the paper receiving 2012 CSPA Gold Crown award • Oversaw a staff of 30+ students, led training workshops in InDesign and Photoshop to ensure familiarity with design techniques• Finalized and refined newspaper on nightly basis with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor for daily distribution• Handled staff scheduling, communication, special issue planning, and technology training for student-run newspaper • Introduced new system for standardizing placement of components on page for better consistency• Supported staff with K4 article-tracking system and administrated user accounts to facilitate production process• Created detailed map of Manhattan in Adobe Illustrator for frequent use in newspaper graphics and special issues

New York, New York, Us

• Weekly design of front page using InDesign and assisted Design Editors in improving templates for production

New York, Ny, Us

• Wrote JavaScript importer for emails and iTunes comments for enhancement and streamlining of manual email review• Built JavaScript XML-feed parser and review system to facilitate logging and New Yorker quality assurance content check• Implemented cross-browser JavaScript spellchecker for proofreading to assist with cross platform copy check• Developed Node.js application for processing XML based table of contents into CSV for import into Zinio

New York, Ny, Us

• Contribute to design and development of college undergraduate admission site serving over 30,000 people per year, including wireframes, Photoshop mockups, HTML prototypes, Drupal templating, and content management• Support requests and maintenance of content on 10+ university web sites serving an undergraduate community of 5,000 people• Incorporate new features on existing web sites using Drupal, PHP templating, responsive CSS/SASS, and jQuery

New York, Ny, Us

• Assisted clients with over 300 requests to resolve issues with malfunctioning software, hardware, and deployment of computers• Troubleshooted remotely and onsite with clients for computers, printers, iPhones, Blackberrys, Microsoft Outlook, etc.• Configured and deployed 80 new computers using system images via Norton Ghost and worked with Active Directory

• Converted 2D AutoCAD files of five dorm rooms, between 8-15 stories tall, to 3D SketchUp models including heaters and furniture• Developed and suggested idea to director of creating models of dorm rooms to increase student satisfaction with room selection• Facilitated talks to host files on new housing website for student downloads

Supplied town residents with support for computer questions, buying advice, home video transfer, and computer repair. Performed printer installations, virus protection, Hi-8 to DVD conversion, data backup and transfer, network configuration.

• Led 2010 Port Light to be ranked a Gold Medalist by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association• Recruited more than 30 new members, created club Facebook page, designed school-based advertising campaigns, developed and initiated new organization structure offering expanded opportunities for club members and increased involvement of student body• Researched and advised on technological purchases for backup of Yearbook files and camera equipment

St Kilda, Vic, Au

Complementary assistance for Cantor. Responsible for setting up digital recording configuration for preparation of prayer learning CDs. Installed system including microphone, recording software, computer, battery backup, and printer for 70 year old Cantor and trained him to use software and hardware to produce recordings and make labels. Designed CD and Jewel Case covers for printing with recordings.

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Bachelor Of Arts, Computer Science

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