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Boston, Ma, Us

I help small companies and non-profit organizations get the most out of their teams, technologies, clients and partners without the cost of a full-time IT executive. Use my skills, expertise and leadership to help you tackle the issues that are holding you back. Some examples of ways I can help you:• Staffing - hiring, culture building, communication, mentoring• Hosting / DevOps - selection, provisioning, security, uptime, CI/CD pipelines, IaC• Efficiency - task management & prioritization, documentation, Agile planning• Risk Management - security, QA, regulatory compliance, disaster recovery• Partnerships / Agencies - needs assessment, selection and vetting• Planning - stakeholder consensus, SMART goals, budgetingReview my previous positions below for examples of the type of work I can do for you for far less than a full-time employee. Whether it's 10, 20 or 40 hours a week, every organization needs tech leadership to keep systems, data and the business safe and productive.Free Consultation with No Obligation

Columbia, Maryland, Us

• Managed development and hosting for agency, overseeing a successful hosting migration from co-location to cloud and PaaS.• Led initiatives to improve bill to collect ratio from 55% to 85% and increase revenue per head by 25%.• Reduced turnover from 80% to 15% • Improved uptime and availability of client sites to 99.99%

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Manage agency team of approximately 25 talented developers working across many major web platforms including Drupal, Symfony, React, Magento, WordPress and many more.

Falmouth, Ma, Us

Falmouth Academy is a college prep day school. I was honored to instruct 7 - 12th grade musicians in the practical (as well as fun) aspects of playing in a band. Classes are typically divided 70/30 into playing songs and covering topics like hearing protection, getting along with band mates, compiling a set list and the most important thing you can do as a bandmate -- listen.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Ran a development team of 3 domestic and 15 offshore developers building and hosting thousands of WordPress sites. The company needed to scale rapidly and had never had a leader with development experience.• Instituted a developer training and mentoring program to decrease re-work,• Reduced launch time from 2 weeks to 1 day,• Instituted active monitoring of sites and introduced paid maintenance as a new revenue stream,• Built an employee portal to help centralize information and integrate CRM (Monday.com) tools,• Decreased hosting bill by 40% per month by eliminating orphaned sites and domain renewals for cancelled clients.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

WordStream is a SaaS advertising tool to help marketers optimize their campaigns. I was brought in to fix a failed upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 and improve uptime, availability and reduce time to launch for new features. • Eliminated downtime during deployment and reduced deploy time from two hours to approximately 20 minutes.• Reduced staff needed for the deploy from 7 to 2.• Improved Lighthouse performance scores by 300%.• Fixed a broken Marketo API integration which had been reporting incorrect marketing statistics for nearly six months.• Created custom modules for A/B pool testing, custom display banners, analytics integration (GTM), pricing widgets and Marketo integration.

Little Ferry, Nj, Us

Eventide is a music equipment manufacturer. I was brought in to replace a failing Microsoft .Net CMS that would fail at least once per day. • Launched new Drupal 7 site in a little over four months later, including the migration of thousands of customer accounts and support forum posts.• Created forum tools to help engineers provide customer support through the site (their primary method of support at the time).• Built a preset sharing system so artists could share effects settings.• Built a custom store, including integration with Pace's iLok protection system Eden to allow customers to get license keys when they purchased, instead of waiting for a week to be manually issued.• Sustained a 99.86% uptime record, increased Google Analytics sessions 368%, decreased support tickets 20%

Drupal builders, web design, development and consulting for clients like Harvard, MIT, Berklee, CVS, Local Motors, New England Foundation for the Arts, Lewis Foundation, Newton Public Schools, SMMA, Iron Mountain, Fidelity and more. We built and deployed the website for the CSAIL (computer science and artificial intelligence lab) at MIT as well as MIT's 150th anniversary website, university president's website and departmental sites for Biology, Transportation & Logistics, Diversity, Global Education, Political Science, various student-related sites like Dean of Undergraduate Education and special project sites like Energy Initiative, MIT Medical, Harvard/MIT and others. Many of these projects broke new ground for MIT, including the first departmental Drupal 7 site and a custom Shibboleth authentication module which became the basis for their Drupal security module, instructional work and consulting for their Drupal cloud service, advanced, interactive organizational chart and many, many other projects.

IdiotVox was one of the very first Podcast Directories for what was then a brand new medium. It was the first to have a true merit-based ranking algorithm to connect users with quality content. The site also had faceted and full-text search capabilities, verified user reviews and comprehensive listings. I created, coded and maintained the podcast directory. The site also had it's own podcast-review-podcast called VoxMonitor which was a short format, highly funny forerunner to today's YouTube-style podcasts.

Needham, Ma, Us

Manage design and production for $100mm travel research web site (#2 travel site in the world, ComScore) serving over 18mm unique visitors/month. Major projects include launch of travel deals newsletter, forums, hotel search, major site redesign and 17 co-brand sites (CBS/Viacom).RESPONSIBILITIES: - Design for the web site and marketing collateral - Leadership of two direct reports, multiple freelancers and outside agencies - Work with other department heads to ensure smooth launches for weekly features and larger projects - XSL/HTML/CSS developmentACCOMPLISHMENTS: - Created project management application to manage design workflow, QA process and launch - Designed and implemented project management process to facilitate weekly launches and chaired weekly meetings. - Co-branded site project that brings in ~$150k/month in revenue - Various design successes: Recent redesign increased newsletter subscriptions by 50%, TripWatch redesign increased commerce clicks by 30%

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, Us