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Nashua, New Hampshire, Us

Nashua, New Hampshire, Us

Nashua, New Hampshire, Us

Front-end JavaScript and CSS development using React, Redux, and Sagas.

Full-stack development using Bootstrap, AngularJS, and Node.js.• Designed, created, maintained, and documented REST-based production tools for creating, managing, and publishing educational products, converting from legacy formats, and performing file and content management.• Helped develop canonical XML data spec for company-wide effort to standardize back-end services. Helped develop scalable production workflows around the new tools.

Front-end JavaScript development for the MindTap platform as part of an Agile SCRUM team. Some work in Java, MySQL, and MongoDB. Helped develop production processes.• Created widely used utility to analyze, validate, and repair product content.• Created Diff Tool to crawl through large Websites and generate human-readable reports of changes made to content.• Designed and built the Media App that handles all media in Cengage’s flagship MindTap platform and helped design and develop many other parts of the platform.• Developed JSON spec for transfer and storage of media metadata and worked extensively with XML book content.• Developed and documented content standards for MindTap.Conducted Project IMPROVE from May to November 2012, a very successful initiative to analyze and mitigate production problems. • Analyzed and documented end-to-end MindTap production workflow and presented detailed recommendations for improvement in numerous areas.• Built online production tools and automated content tests.

Tech lead for a team of a dozen coders who build about 200 pedagogical Websites a year. Developer of related platform software and production tools. Received a Golden Value Award for "innovation and ingenuity."• Worked with product managers, editors, and graphic designers to gather requirements for, design, and implement several Website designs and platforms.• Engineered and collaborated on development of an AJAX-based Site Engine using a Model-View-Controller design pattern. The system provides a consistent interface for all Websites, with menus and all other shell elements defined by XML. Content pages, including complex audio/video playlists, are dynamically generated from custom templates and XML data. A URL management system allows site content to be easily reused in multiple products.• Helped develop usability testing procedures, conduct usability tests, and analyze results.• Developed and maintained standards for content production, coding, and filenaming.• Developed and maintained production tools.• Created documentation for software and production processes. Trained users.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Developed and oversaw production of online educational products. Uncovered departmental workflow inefficiencies and gaps in quality assurance, then developed software tools that successfully addressed these problems. Managed budget and trained employees.• Worked with outside vendor to design and implement 16 Flash-based political-science simulations that combined interactive role-playing, storytelling, and multimedia to bring the political process to life. This highly successful product line was praised by instructors as “ingenious” and “an invaluable tool.”• Gathered requirements for, designed, built, tested, documented, and trained employees to use a number of software tools implemented as Dreamweaver extensions or in Visual BASIC. Tools included an authoring system for automating the production of large instructional Websites, reducing site-production time from about three weeks to two days and drastically reducing coding errors.

Designed and ran the Electronic Literature Directory, a bilingual online database containing more than 3,600 normalized descriptive entries. Created a robust account system allowing Directory updates by ELO staff and people whose work is listed in the Directory.• Created long-term development plan and successfully pitched it to funding sources. Managed project budget.• Supervised designers and MySQL/PHP programmer in construction and upgrading of database, XML-based localization architecture, and interface components. Oversaw Bugzilla bug-tracking system and CVS version control.• Developed editorial policy, style guidelines, beta-testing procedures, and staff training materials. Hired, trained, and supervised assistants, interns, translators, and contributing editors.• Wrote help files and user guides.• Worked with academics and digital librarians to propose a metadata standards initiative for preserving Websites from software obsolescence.

New York, Ny, Us

Taught classes in electronic writing for the New School's online program.• Taught students essentials of interface design and how to prototype and develop a product.• Helped the New School test and improve its online classroom.

Ma, Musicology

Bmus, Music