University of Maryland College Park

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

Senior Web Developer at Atlantic Media/GEMG

Will help update current site to latest versions of framework and language as well as create and launch new web products.

Atlantic Media

Senior Web Developer

- Transformed ideas into designs and then designs into interactives/apps such as theaward-winning Spelling Bee and the Pulitzer Prize winning Seven Days of Heroinproject. (links in the media section)• Quickly pivoted and jumped into other people’s projects such as the Hurricane Trackerwhen needed to complete the projects and get them deployed and running whilecontinuing to work on my own projects. These interactive projects and apps helpedincrease pageviews and reader engagement by 10 to 30 percent each year.• Designed and implemented cost-saving and efficiency measures, such as moving appsand databases to the cloud using the new Kubernetes system, which made app updatesand deployments substantially easier, while saving thousands of dollars each month.• Coordinated projects among different departments, such as design and PaaS/Devops, inorder to help achieve their individual and mutual goals.• Mentored other developers, designers and editors in publishing workflow/apps,deploying apps and coding.• In all of my work over 24 years at Gannett, I always built great relationships with other departments, both technical and non-technical, where people often commented how much they enjoyed working with me.

Gannett

Senior Design Developer/Software Engineer

- Enhanced client website functionality and appeal by creating popular video player tool• Built and deployed new calendar and event system using vbscript, <a href="http://VB.net">VB.net</a>, SQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery that allowed Edge Media's clients to customize their calendar/event pages on their websites.• Troubleshooted and fixed difficult technical issues.

Edge Media

Developer/Independent Contractor

- Utilized coding and web design in the context of journalism to create templates, apps and workflow improvements to increase the productivity, efficiency and speed (3x) for artists and editors in their stories and projects.• Built interactive Flash (Actionscript 2 & 3) presentations and templates as well as several <a href="http://c#.net">c#.net</a> applications that allowed editors to enter data into forms and have that data power interactive presentations using the new Flash templates.• Used jQuery and CSS to build immersive presentations without using Flash and created many of USA TODAY's first set of non-Flash templates. Often the go-to guy for problem solving and coding questions.

USA TODAY

Design Developer

- Covered the weather-related news for <a href="http://USATODAY.com">USATODAY.com</a> as well as serving as the scientific expert for interactive graphics and presentations about the weather and how weather phenomenon works. Used expertise in weather to answer reader-submitted questions in the very popular "Ask the Expert" columns also known as "Ask Jack".