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Lead Developer, NBC Digital Networks
- Lead developer on a family of four blog sites built on a single Drupal installation.
- Custom built several modules to connect with third-party APIs, incorporate DART ad-tags and incorporate new functionality.
- Created a base theme & several sub-themes. All markup is W3C compliant.
- Managed the development team and served as the main technical point of contact for project stake holders.
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Manager of Online Production, The New York Post
December 2006 — October 2009
- Managed the online production group responsible for front-end design, styling & markup; advertising support; editorial special sections
- Served as technical lead on an enterprise-level Drupal-based blog site, pagesix.com during its entire development cycle including site architecture, module development and theming.
- Created innovative advertising takeovers — rebranded pages or sections — often including flash animations, photo galleries, or videos
- Built a complex takeover scheduling system as well as an automated email newsletter system using object-oriented PHP
- Transitioned nypost.com to standards compliant XHTML, AJAX based web applications, and lightweight page designs
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Creative Director, Do Something Inc.
August 2004 — December 2006
- Developed and maintained the Do Something brand
- Supervised dosomething.org's transition to Drupal and helped plan each step of
the development cycle; module development & theming
- Prior to migrating to Drupal, designed, built and maintained a custom PHP/mySQL-based CMS for dosomething.org including both the front-end and back
- Created all print materials (layout, graphic design & pre-press), including BUILD magazine (circulation 100m – 450m, 32pps) published 3 times per year
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Lead Developer, Pearson Education
January 2003 — June 2003
- Lingo and Actionscript programming for The Precision Planner, a curriculum tool for teachers
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Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology (LCC)
May 2002 — May 2003
- Designed a database for an annotated version of the film Casablanca
- Designed a commentary and annotation tool for Casablanca using Macromedia Director
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Multimedia Developer, Boston Univ. Office of Info. Tech.
July 2001 — May 2002
- Designed websites & SMIL file presentations
- Provided formal instruction in software packages including Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML & CSS
