360training.com

Career Highlights:
● Managed US and Off-Shore engineers which were both full-time and contract employees. Built a highly effective team by hiring the right people, offering them great training and providing continuous mentoring.
● Created an Agile based process so that both large projects and smaller initiatives could be deployed regularly. This also included improvements in requirement gathering, test driven development, code
reviews, clean QA hand offs, proper UAT and CI/CD.
● Provided diligence on companies prior to a potential acquisition. This analysis often helped predict what a technical migration would look like once the acquisition took place.
● Migrated Web sites to a CMS platform so that Marketing members could easily make updates. The migration improved SEO and ultimately improved conversion.
● Built Landing Page engine with Drag and Drop Interface allowing Marketing to build complex visuals without technical knowledge.
● Created portable Lead Form solution to facilitate growth of our B2B Business. The portability was critical for usage across various Web sites before a platform migration occurred.
● Built a next generation Proctoring tool to replace an outdated, unsecure and hard to manage system.
● Created a Web site and LMS tracking system to answer questions on traffic and performance.

Director of Software Development:
● Worked closely with CTO to orchestrate new processes and methodologies to enhance request, development to release cycle.
● Worked closely with Marketing and Product members to take an idea or requirements to production.
● Moved 360training.com from outdated e-commerce platform and over 20 WordPress sub applications to a single Drupal instance. Cleaned up a large amount of tech debt while improving SEO health and
ultimately improving conversion.
● Leveraged Cloudflare to speed up requests, use its FaaS capabilities and add extra security.
● Migrated other sites such as: meditec.com, gettips.com, osha.com, hipaaexams.com and more.

Director of Software Development

Education Dynamics

Career Highlights:
● Migrated four major platforms to one consolidated platform. Originally they were owned by separate businesses and had
separate physical locations. The completed work allowed the company to make better decisions, move
more quickly and reduce operating costs.
● Introduced Drupal CMS:
    - Facilitated training sessions for technical team members in three different locations.
    - Lead continuous training of both technical and business members.
    - Designed, engineered and managed all development of each site migration to Drupal.
    - Four major sites and hundreds of smaller sites were moved to 5 Drupal applications.
    - Maintenance and management has a much smaller footprint.
● Designed and engineered a landing page engine which powers 90% of paid media’s revenue.
● Designed a proprietary ad server which removed a 3rd party vendor and increased profit margins.
● Helped create an enterprise level development process which streamlined requests and increased
productivity.
● Helped safely migrate all web applications and other supporting software to Azure’s hosting platform
reducing costs to about 10%.
● Built a team from scratch and helped other technology and business teams with their hiring process.

Director of Software Development:
● Worked alongside the Vice President of Product and other SEO leaders to gather requirements and
make recommendations on new features.
● Worked closely with members of the paid media marketing team to develop solutions and advise on
other margin positive improvements.
● Worked with the Business Intelligence team to build diagnostics tools to provide insight into our system's health.
● Managed four team members and provided technical guidance to others.
● Lead migration of a recent acquisition and one other department’s technology to Drupal and the
common platform.

● Lead Drupal migrations for Gradschools and Study Abroad websites.
● Managed four team members in two US locations.
● Managed source control repositories, branching and merging strategies in our own Git repo and Team
Foundation Server version control systems.

Senior Manager of Software Development

Lead Drupal migration for eLearners and Education Connection businesses.
● Designed and developed landing pages application to power paid media campaigns.
● Migrated legacy sites to the new platform.

Lead Web Developer

● Introduced Drupal CMS.
   - Spearheaded CMS selection by presenting the team's findings to the executive team.
   - Arranged training company to come on-site and train 20 employees.
● Hands on Graphic design, UX engineering and front-end development.
● Managed and maintained the front-end of classic asp and vb.net web applications.
● Introduced .NET based CMS to power sub-sections of our flagship site and various marketing campaign driven domains.

Sr. Web Designer

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Graphic design and front-end development.

Senior Web Designer

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Production Artist

Results driven technical leader who is innovative and process oriented. Always looking for the best
solution for the team and the business. Leadership skills include Full-Stack Development, Dev-Ops,
Quality Assurance and Project Management.

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