Helping drive our philosophy, vision, and production forward.• Ensure our internal tools and infrastructure keep running smoothly.• Assess team's maturity, health, and composition to ensure everyone is set up for success.• Organize and facilitate Agile rituals (sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives and sprint reviews.)• Prioritize work to help reduce distractions and impacted velocity.• Create and contribute ideas across different teams and disciplines.

The wearer of many hats with the habit of ending up in the middle of everything.

Revolutionizing online communities. Company is in stealth mode.• Foster relationships with key tech platform partners and vendors who can add value to our stack.• Implemented agile development methodologies.• Active role in marketing and monetization strategies.

• Responsible for deploying and overseeing company's cloud computing strategy. (AWS, DigitalOcean)• End-to-end full stack development of the product. (ES6, NodeJS, Vue, Express, MongoDB, Redis, SaltStack, Jenkins)

dewPixel was a web hosting company dedicated to providing customers with the most reliable service possible at an affordable price. The business closed in March 2020.

Responsible for developing customized scalable display, mobile, video and social media advertising products, I am also responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of RhythmOne's web presence with expert understanding of the entire back and front-end technology stack, including reporting and data-gathering.Performed activities on the job include:• Build and deploy applications to AWS (ASG, EC2, S3, and CloudFront), including scaling high volume applications. • Creation of wire-frames, mockups, and UI/UX design.• Concepting new ad product types and developing prototypes.• Product-related documentation creation.• Translate marketing team needs into actionable needs from developers.Accomplishments:• Designed and developed RhythmOne's Investor Relations and Corporate web destinations.• Rebranded AdKarma, a wholly owned subsidiary of RhythmOne.• Helped defined brand guidelines and re-branding efforts during RhythmOne's brand refresh.• Developed internal Content Management Systems to improve marketing department functions. • Designed and developed tailored ZenDesk and JobVite portals for RhythmOne's needsRhythmOne, a publicly traded company, was acquired by Tremor International in April of 2019.

As MCP reporting to the CMO, I lead development projects through the entire development life cycle and work with Burst’s clients to develop industry leading, customized scalable display, mobile, video and social media advertising products. I maintain our first-party ad product serving and web properties infrastructure and lived in the trenches with the development team.Accomplishments:• Eliminated the use of third party creative vendors and defined a suite of scalable display, mobile, video and social media products. Including, bringing design and development in-house resulting in increased profit margins.• Developed a set of internal creative tools that drastically decreased the development time of first party ad creative to meet high demand.• Transitioned creative from Flash to HTML 5, resulting in being one of the first in the industry to adapt and embrace HTML 5.• Launch of four community-focused vertical channels to connect advertisers with gamers, moms, sports fans and fashionistas on the Web.• Played a role in the third and final re-branding phase of Burst Media, aiding in the definition of new brand guidelines and responsible for the development of the company's new web destination.• Received the "Best at Burst" award for the month of May 2011 in recognition of valuable contributions to the company.• Managed a team of remote developers in varied time zones.• Liaison between marketing teams and development/product teams.Burst Media, a publicly traded company, was acquired by RhythmOne (Formerly Blinkx) in April of 2011.

Pixelblast Media was a small media company that built, owned, and operated web properties aimed at the entertainment and lifestyle markets. Revenue was generated from online advertising. The business closed in March 2013.

At Giant Realm, I spent most of my time focusing specifically on technical issues and offering white glove customer support. In general, I troubleshoot publisher side issues when ads are not preforming as specified, assisted the product and technology group when new products are being released, and implemented these new technologies across the publisher group. I communicated with publishers about their technical needs and developed complex proposal solutions in return.Giant Realm was acquired by Burst Media in October of 2009.

Before it's closure, GamerNode was an entertainment platform geared towards the male 18-30 demographic. Services such as digital downloads, user generated content, and a full fledged video service made GamerNode stand out across competitors such as GameSpy, 1UP, and UGO during the services early years. The business closed in July 2012 and returned as a gaming blog built by fans and former employees.

Responsible for a variety of tasks including: Computer assistance and training with library patrons, shelving and arranging materials, processing new books and materials, assistance with library programming with demonstrated ability to work with a team and on independent projects, good interpersonal and communication skills, as well as customer service experience.