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Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Oversee the technical strategy and architecture to deployment of 30+ website and software projects, ranging from template CMS (Drupal, WordPress, Webflow), custom headless CMS builds (Strapi, Adobe Commerce), and ecommerce platforms with custom API integrations (for Truhearing & DentalPlans)• Implement Agile methodologies for website and software projects, to deliver within iterative cycles and achieve target profit margins• Work cross functionally with engineering, product, UI/UX, and marketing strategy teams to establish program scope and deliverables, development schedules, milestones, dependencies (including resources and cost), validation plans, success criteria, track progress, and drive issue resolution among the teams.• Facilitate Agile events, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives with 38 engineers across multiple teams (in-house, nearshore, and offshore)• Managed diabetes.org migration from Drupal 7 to 8 leveraging component design and build strategy, hosted on Acquia. After migration, continued to manage 3-year roadmap of feature releases and maintenance through Drupal 10, capturing an additional $2M in revenue• Managed roadmap for redesign and rebuild of multiple Shopify ecommerce sites and Amazon web stores in Heyday’s portfolio, implementing data-driven conversion rate optimization, including A/B testing• Optimized performance of IdeaCloud’s 10-year-old codebase (proprietary SaaS) by working with VP of Product to define new feature releases, upgrading with NextJS• Key accounts: Adobe, Verizon, American Diabetes Association, Cricut, CenturyLink, Franklin Covey, Instructure, Pluralsight

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Developed best practices for website and software projects for the Engineering PMO, preserving 30% target profit margins within often tight budget parameters• Maintained key technical support role on 4-year / $2.2M retainer, and 1-year $2.5M retainer website projects• Create project plans and timelines, define scope, document technical requirements and user stories• Manage client communication, set meeting cadence• CMS platforms: Drupal, WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Strapi, Custom

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

• Managed 3 offshore software development teams simultaneously to ensure on-time/budget deliverables for largest projects when agency resources over capacity• Salvaged 10% revenue loss on $800k+ / 1M+ users/mo project mid-build by implementing MVP scope refinement, reversing loss to 10% profit by deployment

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Key clients: National Geographic, CBS Sports, Nitro Circus* Fly drones with cameras to capture amazing footage

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Key Accounts: Sundance Resort, UCCU, Wildbird, DockATot, Copper Pearl, Nena & Co.• Managed 10-15 projects with small agile team (1 developer, 2 designers, 1 QA manager) • Defined weekly priorities, sprint timeframes, milestones, and project phases• Conducted A/B tests and conversion rate optimization• Frameworks/libraries: PHP/Laravel, JavaScript, HTML/SCSS, Liquid, Wordpress/Twig, React, MySQL

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Shopify, Wordpress, Timber/Twig, SCSS, Node.js, MySQL

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Client Portfolio: ModCom.io (B2B SaaS)* Built React application with Axios, Redux, and Semantic UI for MVP launch* Write RSpec tests for models and controllers- Refactor user management page with create/edit/delete components, filter dropdown, and searchReactJs, React Native, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Redux, Rails, Axios, PostgreSQL, Webpack, Bootstrap, Materialize, Semantic-UI, GitHub, Phabricator, Agile/Scrum

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Key Accounts: Google, UBER, Boy Scouts of America, Bass Pro Shops/Cabela’s, William-Sonoma, Macy’s & Best Buy* Developed strategic partnerships and activation plans to acquire authentic influencers, and increase MAU's, ARPU, and LTV in over 20 categories* Managed team of account managers to maximize value of over 300 key partnerships with major retailers and organizations* Negotiated and managed over 250 earned media campaigns through partner channels* Achieved consistent +20% YOY growth, producing a total of over 900k Net New Members* Directed 24 multi-brand campaigns to increase engagement and incremental NNMs* Collaborated with product development to deploy new solutions to optimize acquisition and increase retention

Greater Salt Lake City Area

(acquired by MTI in 2014) ArmorActive, a Mobile Technologies Inc. company, is an enterprise-level tablet solutions company, providing B2B hardware, software, and mobile application solutions to customers worldwide.* Partnered with the founder to bootstrap company to acquisition within 3 years of launch* Directed Web Dev/Design/SEO teams to increase ranking of 6 sites (from 5k to 25k users/month) * Recruited and managed 15 marketing employees/interns over the course of 3 year term* Developed inbound marketing campaigns resulting in 600% revenue growth* Increased inbound leads 12x (100 to 1200/month) leveraging marketing automation and CRM* Launched over 100 go-to-market campaigns for new products

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Provo, Utah, United States

* Initiated and managed media department to produce over 40 educational or campaign videos* Planned, promoted, and led 1-3 events per week for audiences of 60-80 people

Full-Stack Software Development Certificate - Devpoint Labs, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communications & Business Marketing