John Frey Email & Phone Number

Shoreline, Wa

Greater Seattle Area

Program manager for an enterprise initiative to implement Drupal 8 as a headless CMS in a decoupled micro-services environment delivering JSON and binary assets to a micro services ETL for consumption by single page apps using the AngularJS framework. Managed all aspects of the project from vendor selection, SOW and MSA execution, budget, resources, communication, solutions architecture, development, QA, and deployment.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Managing a team of eight that provides support and feature enhancement for externally facing digital services serving seattletimes.com web and mobile properties.

Project Management and Platform Management for Online Technologies.

• Research and testing for E-ink e-reader devices and news reader applications• Managed teams and projects for Pre-press, Marketing, and Editorial production systems• Focused on creating transparent job tracking systems• Developed efficiencies for photo and graphics workflows to minimize incorrect file assignments and augment speed to press and web• Led and developed a web-based, job tracking application for the Corporate Marketing creative team• Provided development and support for the seattletimes.com web site, a LAMP environment, that generates over 40 million page views every month • Developed the seattletimes.com mobile site to replace older WAP site and include Omniture web analytics code, Monthly page views have increased by over 20%.• Implemented the TeamPlayer web application, a CMS for high school sports statistics, to increase functionality and efficiencies and to minimize down time for a site that generates more than 2 million page views monthly.

• Responsible for Color correction and retouching of editorial photos, from page one photos to life style and entertainment features• Developed scripts to preflight and route graphic files to the OPI and archive servers• Developed scripts for the News Service department to preflight and FTP graphic files to several sites

• Provided hardware and software support for Redbook and Marie Claire editorial departments• Purchased and managed licensing of 5000+ typeface library for 15 magazines• Tested and trained staff to export text from QuarkXPress into HTML for resale by Lexis-Nexis and other content providers

• Responsible for the editorial production of Redbook Magazine, a 3.2 million print run consumer magazine• Managed the production and trafficking of editorial content, and a staff of five• Coordinated ad placement and press signature configurations with the Advertising Production Manger • Developed a job tracking database to better manage and report on editorial deadlines

Political Science

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