One of my very first jobs in media was at CNN, working in booking and audience development for a show called CNN Talkback Live in the early 2000s.
I maintain the sites, communications, and tech tools used by GSA, a group of dedicated volunteers and culture shapers who are committed to reducing violent gun deaths in the United States 50% in 10 years.
I founded a charity at 16 years old. ht.live is that nonprofit media production and performing arts venue that I continue to lead.
I've worked on a few mass media women's sites. I led the frontend development of NBC's attempt to revive iVillage.
Now known as TNT Sports, I develop a number of professional sports sites when the broadcaster was known as Turner Sports.
A very talented team built a newspaper platform using Drupal for Augusta, Athens, Savannah, St. Augustine, Jacksonville, and a dozen other cities. I was a member of that team.
In 2015, I managed and led development for the Thor Equities site in collaboration with the firms Elephant Ventures & Rokkan.
I helped to modernize the T+L website during the era when Meredith Corp (now DotDash Meredith) acquired Time Inc. a few years ago.
For The Trevor Project, I developed content management functionality such as FAQ section that could easily expanded and maintained by volunteer staff.
I helped to build and maintain unc.edu and a handful of related sites. Go Tar Heels!
When urban.org made it's move to the drupal platform, I was there to lead the development and launch.
Remember seeing that fancy "Where" magazine in your hotel room when visiting a new city? Great times. I was a lead developer on the now defunct website.
Back when the storied Time Inc. existed, I built People en Español as the sole engineer and theme developer.
Once upon a time, I implemented the Southern Living Holiday Season Giving Guide.
Converted static designs into working prototypes for NASCAR, including site dashboards and interactive leaderboards.
Following the merging between Time Inc. and Meredith Corp, I was tasked with making Better Homes & Gardens (BHG) fully ADA and WCAG compliant.
Led as the Chief Scrum of Scrums to evolve a non-agile organization into Scaled Agile Framework for SaksOFF5th.com. Served as Technical Lead for improving the product detail page and overall site speed.
Back when the storied Time Inc. owned Essence Magazine, I built Essence.com as the sole engineer and theme developer for the site.
Establishing and cultivating agile software development best practices for Dow Jones content APIs, sitemaps, external feeds, and press release services for MarketWatch, Barron's, and WSJ.
Led the engineering team to implement redesigns and relaunch of the WSJ Video section and video detail page.
