Moved to DotDash when the Investopedia brand was merged into DotDash.Assisted with planning the migration of the Investopedia website into the DotDash tech stack.Helped Investopedia developers onboard with the DotDash development environment and tech stack.

Worked on a skunk works project to come up with a new tech stack for the company. During the project I focused on identifying business and technical requirements while juggling the project schedule to meet the timelines of other teams.Improved mobile page speed by ~40-50% on highest traffic page types.

Added performance optimizations to in-house ORM used to connect to legacy CMS system.Provided input on architectural and process decisions.Actively helped new employees onboard and get up to speed on the tech stack.Took an active role in interviewing candidates for both technical knowledge and cultural fit.Technical lead on a project that successfully migrated the site to SSL and HTTPS with minimal impact on SEO.Organized a quarterly unconference to share knowledge within the organization.

Modernizing development practices by migrating existing legacy code bases into an SCM system and implementing agile development. Maintaining legacy systems where practical and working with business representatives to develop new replacement applications when maintaining legacy code has a lower cost-to-benefit ratio.

Deployed, and managed, virtual servers world wide creating an entirely virtualized development and production infrastructure for the company. Overhauled software development and deployment practices by facilitating the implementation of git and the usage of gitflow style branch organization. Working on the integration software development team as time allows.

Working on a digital distribution platform, primary maintainer and developer of client side application. Using C# and XAML in the WPF framework, Visual Studio 2010 as a development environment and git as a version control system.

Project work customizing a module for the Moodle course management system. Assisting users with account or system problems and monitoring computer labs.

Resolved escalated helpdesk issues and completed various small projects. Managed a mid-sized project from inception to completion and moved from a project lead to a management role on another project.

Supported 300 Windows desktop computer systems and over 700 users. Developed a tool in Java to scan network file systems in order to identify missing or corrupt files and then restore them from tape backup after a major systems hardware failure.