Michael Biagetti Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Five-plus years of solving technical challenges and leading projects large and small, centered around helping people quit smoking, vaping or chewing tobacco through our BecomeAnEX.org website, mobile apps, live-chat coaching, interactive automated text messages, and tailored emails, and online community. Providing scoping and business analysis through gathering and refining requirements on our most intense initiatives such as migrating our entire website from the PHP to Python coding languages without any interruption to our users, or migrating our 11 year-old online community with tens of thousands of valuable posts and participants documenting their quit journeys, and re-coding and re-designing our user registration system... I partner with senior developers in the planning of tasks and project phases to produce clear and actionable user stories & requirements. I lead both deadline-driven and open ended projects, and develop and implement agile-friendly project plans, risk assessments, task sequencing, testing plans, and/or launch-sequencing plans. I work closely with the Product Team to control scope, negotiate and fine tune product strategies and I oversee their user-acceptance-testing of our dev work before it goes live. I manage resources in close collaboration with the director of software development, and oversee the work of both in-house and contract developers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I serve as the technical point of contact for our clients while leading teams of developers and quality assurance specialists to architect, develop, iteratively improve and launch iOS Apps and new App features, fostering and ensuring quality code deliveries and pixel-perfect design implementations. Translating technical challenges into business-digestible client feedback. Anticipating client’s needs to provide a close collaboration with members of their technical team members and their business stakeholders.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Leading teams with diverse skill sets and experience levels through the full software development life-cycle to create high-visibility websites for the public and private sector. Included overseeing design refinement, user experience planning, creating technical specifications, executing the code development and infrastructure deployment, running quality assurance, migrating encyclopedic levels of content, launching to the public, resolving immediate live issues of any, and transitioning to long term support models.Sites included: City of Louisville KY - LouisvilleKY.gov Sir Speedy Printing - SirSpeedy.com and sister site Pip.com Teamlogic IT Services - TeamlogicIT.comFirst two phases of WMATA (DC Metrorail and Metrobus) site relaunch, leading phase 1 (Technical and Creative discovery), and phase 2 (authoring technical specification and overseeing user experience, and visual design planning and code implementation planning).Keeping team members focused on what was most important at hand, helping them set aside less important (though noisy) distractions. Introducing a detailed estimating process to the development teams, and creating highly granular custom reporting / analysis tools for clients and company leaders that track agile user stories, outstanding defects, and/or project budget consumption.

Greater New York City Area

Leading teams of Engineers, QA specialists, and Stake Holders to launch websites large and small. Client relations and account management. Facilitating client discovery cycles, distilling all input into actionable proposals, contracts & budgets, and into tangible development tasks. Writing user stories, facilitating daily stand-ups, real-time task prioritization, constant unblocking for Engineers, QA and fellow project managers on close knit teams.Led 11 developers to launch ~$1.5M social networking website in 3 months, built on Drupal. Main technical leader on major consumer facing financial website leading team of 4 in a year of site enhancements and feature upgrades. Led effort to evaluate and optimize performance, reducing page load from 5-10sec to 2-4sec – faster then any top competitor in the market.Crafting technical documentation & recommendations for clients. Leading technical investigations and rapid issue trouble shooting. Providing positive energy, enthusiasm, and empathy to each new situation facing teams.

Greater New York City Area

Led the team’s transition to agile product development, managing team roles, and coding the user experience in the new B&N’s Kids’ Club and the new Gift Finder, contributing to an 100% increase in overall toy & game sales in 2011: http://bn.com/kidsclub, http://wizard.barnesandnoble.com/wizard/kidsgiftwizard.aspxDeveloped & maintained user interactions across the e-commerce site, creating pixel-perfect HTML & CSS implementations of UI widgets, using dynamic Ajax design patterns, focused on increasing usability & conversion.Re-factored how BN.com displays pricing everywhere products appear. Replaced a dozen ways of representing price-points with unified display logic & simple visual styling.Enabled merchandisers to quickly re-sort thousands of items into vast matrix of new categories & designations using a clean & simple interface deemed “The best back-end tool we’ve ever been given” by the lead merchandiser.Worked to foster & advance team’s best-practices. Provided warnings when the team was over-reaching, and provided enthusiasm when the team was likely not reaching far enough. Promoted a sense of collective success.

Greater New York City Area

Scoped, designed, and programmed public-facing websites with consistency and a sensible user experience.Reduced turnaround time by 50% on flagship projects for American Express with the creation of custom input tools, enabling writers and clients to directly edit source files using the familiar programs MS Word and MS Excel.Clients included American Express, ESPN, Time Warner, Comcast, Cisco Systems, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Clinton Foundation, GenRe, Scripps Howard

Designed and implemented online applications in ColdFusion, accessing SQL Sever databases. Responsible for the user-end of the student financial aid application and created scalable server-side code that now serves 2,000 students each year. Collaborated with other programmers to code, debug, finalize, launch and maintain web software for administrators and faculty.

Ba, Computer Science, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Received the New York University President’s Service Award for Leadership. Completed four years of course work.

Training, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Graphic Design training in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Training, Flash Cs3 Action Script