Michael Sarill Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Manage a wide variety of digital web initiatives across the National Kidney Foundation. Daily responsibilities include completing a high volume of custom cross-department web requests. Requests range from creating new custom landing pages to complete content refreshes, site building, user management, analytics reports and more. Beyond web support requests, I also work closely with our Senior Web Designer to build and launch newly designed key landing pages. Built a custom-designed right-hand-sidebar, that includes a 5 star ratings widget that immediately drew high engagement and usage from our visitors, while introducing a new and important web engagement metric. Finally, I created a solution to enable Spanish translations across key content categories based on Drupal site building best practices.Led initiative to empower field staff across the organization to keep up-to-date field office webpages - through a comprehensive redesign and rebuilding of office webpages using Drupal components instead of HTML. This initiative enabled 25+ local offices to more effectively update webpages in real-time to coordinate with local marketing initiatives, while also significantly improving productivity across the web team.Led the organization of a site-wide Taxonomy that applies across kidney.org's primary content types. The final deliverable involved the creation of a complex Google Sheet that maps the new taxonomies to all of NKF's web content. This inter-department initiative required interfacing with departments across the organization, working with a taxonomy expert vendor and developing a deep understanding of NKF's web content models and sitemap.

New York, New York

Project Noah is a global wildlife community photographing, publishing and sharing wildlife spottings. Project Noah's nature community is an engaged and dynamic place to discover wildlife, learn about new species, meet fellow nature enthusiasts and publish dynamic stories about wildlife. As users share wildlife spottings, experts within the community help users to identify the species in photographs - making Project Noah a full citizen science experience. Our community includes 800,000+ wildlife observations, 1.5 million+ geotagged wildlife photographs, 325,000+ users and 350,000+ Facebook fans. Project Noah Nature School is an open and public nature learning program and nature curriculum designed to help teachers transform even the smallest backyard, schoolyard or local green space into a curiosity-creating nature classroom! Nature School includes designed nature lessons, dynamic video-guided conservation challenges and nature class videos - all geared for elementary and middle school. Launched as a private beta for the Fall of 2020, Nature School opened up to the broader public in the Spring of 2021. Baboon is a wildlife game that in which players defend wildlife in magical jungle habitats. Players take on the role of a baboon who must defend wildlife from poachers using a bow-and-arrow. Stellar graphics & casual point-and-shoot gameplay combine for a magical gaming experience.

Greater New York City Area

Drupal-Focused Dev Studio & Web Consultancy. I work closely with clients mapping product requirements into specifications, wireframes, designs and functional Drupal web elements. Clients received professional recommendations on translating business objectives to streamlined, user-friendly interfaces and trackable goals. Together, we will map your target customers to content categories, which will inform content type selections, in addition to the navigation and sitemap. This role required me to interface with a wide variety of businesses to translate their business needs into custom web solutions. Skills include Product/Web Specifications, HTML, CSS, Drupal Theming, Drupal Site Building, Drupal Module Selection, Drupal Site Configuration, User Interface/Navigation & Content Consultation and Search-Engine-Optimization Consultation.

Managed internal web teams on integrated digital campaigns and complex web builds. These builds often included web design, web development, content-management-systems and SEO campaigns. I grew with BFM when we were a small agency to 40+ NYC Employees and helped set up internal processes to enable agency growth. I also managed some of BFM's most important relationships, including Oppenheimer Funds.

My primary role at The Motley Fool was product development for the new CAPS investing community. I worked with the product team and designers-developers to identify requirements and implement new features on CAPS. Our core business goal was to create a useful tool for investors looking for second opinions on stocks from trusted peers. I helped to establish many of the core features of what would become a robust community of peer-reviewed stock ratings. I also led out the project to free the Motley Fool's Discussion Boards.