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DrupalCon North America 2021 - Drupal Association Executive Roundtable - Participant (04/13/2021)Topics covered included: "The right way to go open source - sharing best practices for evaluating open source technologies, choosing vendors, and getting your colleagues on board with the process"Experience Acquia - Panelist (06/30/2020)How to Accelerate Digital Transformation https://www.acquia.com/blog/jump-start-your-digital-acceleration-experience-acquia-june-30Joined host Mark Jeffries, Nikhil Deshpande (Chief Digital Officer for the State of Georgia), Shaun McDougall (Director of Marketing at Leidos) for virtual panel sharing expert advice on how to accelerate digital transformation.DrupalCon Global 2020 - Panelist (07/15/2020)Codevelopment: The secret sauce of a successful hybrid teamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtCskf32zug

Lead the build, delivery, and integration of a multisite Content Management platform (Acquia, Drupal, PHP, React, Redux, SCSS, Twig, HTML, JS), the web component of Newell Brands’ multi-year, multimillion dollar ($30+ MM) digital transformation/e-commerce initiative.Oversee the full SDLC, resource planning/allocation, development standards/best practices, release strategy, CI/CD and process optimization efforts. Daily management of the internal development team, contractors, and distributed third-party vendors.Platform touch points include Digital Asset Management (MediaBeacon/Scene 7), Order Capture (SFCC), Payment Processing (CyberSource), Analytics (Tealium, SFMC), Order Management (Deck), and API layer (Apigee/Mulesoft), as well as third-party tools (WebCollage, Curalate, BazaarVoice).

Translate stakeholder requirements into successful, scalable architectural designs/artifacts that align IT strategy with business goals. Lead project execution throughout SDLC, guide cross-functional distributed Scrum/Kanban teams, conduct code reviews, assure adherence to best standards and practices, deliver presentations on emerging technologies, partner with business development on sales opportunities, identify risk, document/assess project scope/effort.

Established independent publishing company and production house; credits include music for Emmy Award-winning network series (NBC), major cable channels (Sundance, HGTV, OWN, Style Network, National Geographic, Fuse, DIY, History), Fortune 500 organizations (ELI LILLY, MERRILL LYNCH), and digital media (PEOPLE.COM, PROFOOTBALLWEEKLY.COM). Provide a variety of commercial music services, including composition, production, supervision and licensing.

Key member of distributed DevOps team responsible for supporting and enhancing a custom Drupal platform, which serves as the basis of Johnson & Johnson’s global consumer brand sites (e.g. Listerine, CleanAndClear, Johnson’sBaby). Daily development efforts utilized Drupal, PHP, drush, Jenkins, git, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), and Acquia Cloud, within Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).

Conceived and launched leading video song-comparison startup Same That Tune, which allows people to discover and post comparisons of similar-sounding songs. Same That Tune has been featured on national and local media, including: SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly channel, WBAZ, WRIV, TV34, Newsmax, and patch.com. Built on LAMP stack, SameThatTune.com leverages Drupal, custom PHP modules, YouTube API, Discogs API, and Foundation.

Lead team responsible for 24/7 support of key business intelligence systems for all owned-and-operated television stations, including TVSD data warehouse, executive portal, dashboards and Business Objects reports, as well as third party/custom software applications. Heavy interaction with senior management, development/product vendors, internal centers of excellence, and IT personnel. Managed strategic technology initiatives, process optimization, change requests, resource allocation and time-management for multiple projects (identifying critical path activities).

Managed delivery of technical solutions--from requirements analysis and definition through design, development and rollout--for all TVSD Sales, News and Research teams. Reported jointly to VP, Software Development and CIO TVSD. Managed all project budget, scope, task delegation, team oversight, documentation/artifacts, and client communication.

Designed and developed internal web solutions (e.g. requirements capture, modeling and diagrams following Rational Unified Process). Researched, analyzed and recommended prospective technologies and tools.