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Mclean, Va, Us

Coaching engineering teams from the developer level up to senior leadership on technical XP practices within an agile process, including test-driven development, BDD/ATDD, mob and pair programming, DevOps integration, and clean code practices. This work includes leading organizational transformation through custom multi-sprint technical dojos.

Client work supporting the agile practice offerings, including on-site and remote coaching for engineering teams at large enterprise customers who use Scrum and Kanban at the team level and scaled agile frameworks such as SAFe across the organization.

Fitzroy, Victoria, Au

Writing, developing training programs, and creating course materials on applied agile techniques. My premium courses on JavaScript have enrolled over 60,000 students so far. My SitePoint/O'Reilly book Scrum: Novice to Ninja has reached over 10,000 readers. I created front-end web development materials around a variety of technologies including JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, and Bourbon and also founded, produced, and co-hosted 30+ episodes of SitePoint's popular podcast, The Versioning Show.

Advising technology-driven organizations on how best to improve their engineering and agile practices for a sustainable and productive workplace. This work has ranged from short projects doing individual coaching for engineers and designers up to a year spent coaching multiple teams at a distributed web/mobile agency. I also developed libraries of process documentation and crafted content marketing strategies to convey the flavor of an organization and appeal to the most relevant audiences.

San Francisco, California, Us

Working as a front end platform engineer focused on performance optimization and user interface enhancement features in Go, JavaScript, and Tritium. This role also evolved into program management through championing scrum across the organization, advocating for agile training, and acting as scrum master for the Engineering and Product groups while coaching other parts of the company in agile practices. Also Manager of Product Communications, responsible for managing product documentation processes, and writing and editing marketing materials, public-facing documentation, and internal technical documentation.

Front-end development for a wide range of user-facing and internal administrative web-based pages, tools, and microsites including the company blog and homepage, user settings management, ad sales and account management, email tools with component-based design elements, and marketing pages around special promotions and partnerships. Built and maintained dynamic site-wide style guides through multiple site redesigns with tight Design team integration. Worked on internationalization, AB testing with a custom internal framework, SEO analysis and implementation, and Wordpress integration. Used Handlebars templating on top of Backbone.js with PHP5 with Smarty on the back end.

Building, testing, optimizing, and supporting universal web browser front-end code for AJAX applications. Architect for a shared HTML/CSS framework to unify a suite of AJAX web applications across product lines. Crafting and educating for scriptable and maintainable semantic HTML on top of Javascript with JQuery to support both Java and .Net back-end web services. Led the team responsible for developing internal search analytics for AJAX applications to support reporting in multiple tools including Urchin, Omniture, and AWStats. Specialist in cross-browser accessibility issues, usability design and optimization, and accessibility development for U.S. Rehabilitation Act Section 508 compliance and and NCQA certification.

Market-driven user interface development for companies including MOG, Conwest Resources, and BearParty Magazine. Developed a customized Flash interface to present an on-screen magazine and integrated it into a hand-coded social networking site with 10,000+ profiles. Commercial site redesign for a JSP-driven online storefront based on competitive analysis reports I researched and presented. Dynamic widget development with Prototype and Scriptaculous for Ruby on Rails site. Vendor sourcing, market development, and creation of original PHP/MySQL/Flash services. Layout, writing, editing, design, distribution, and advertiser management for a crossover international print/online publication.

Oversee the work of Marketing, Engineering and Licensing. Track market developments, seeking out strategic partnership opportunities, and managing intellectual property, including technology patents. Demo development and presentation in Flash and PowerPoint.

Responsible for fostering new opportunities through technical innovation. Managed vendors and staff in collateral design, service development, and server administration. Client consultations with strategic customers such as Intel and Nvidia.

New York, New York, Us

Analyzed and reported on usership across multiple sites, integrating data from a variety of tools and services including server administration and report design and generation from Accrue Insight. Integration with Media Metrix, ABC, Analog, and At Plan. Consulting at all levels, from site design optimization to senior executive strategic planning. Driver for projects in user registration, search engine placement, and business development.

Cupertino, California, Us

As Chief Webmaster for www.apple.com, I managed the home page and was responsible for central site navigation. I led corporate technical and content development. I built a team to develop web-based corporate communications repository. Also worked with Solaris and Mac OS X server administration, coding in HTML, Perl, and Java for Mac OS and Solaris. Web analytics via Analog and Accrue with RedBrick data warehousing.

Ba, Social Science Of Telecommunications

Mba, Organizational Behavior And Business Management

Multimedia Design And Development

Legal Studies