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Experience
- Architecting, building and maintaining websites for large healthcare and education institutions
- Establishing best practices including style guides, testing, deployment, and continuous integration
- Led the early adoption of and migration to Drupal 8
Employment
Consultant/President, The Big Blue House. 2000 - present
- Retained by Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSKCC) for the past 15 years to build and manage content management systems (CMS) for their external website (www.mskcc.org and www.sloankettering.edu)
- Migrated 30,000 page website from custom CMS, called the Inettool, to Drupal 6 in 2013, and then migrated the Drupal 6 website to a beta release of Drupal 8 in 2015
- Wrote "The New MSKCC.org" Drupal 6 case study, which was featured on the frontpage of Drupal.org
- Integrated internal clinical trials database and cancer treatment prediction tools web service into Drupal
- Built a content syndication application for patient and caregiver education materials
- Architected custom user interface, information architecture, workflow, layout management, and data collection for Drupal 8
Senior Site Builder/Programmer, i33/Appnet Systems. 1999 - 2000
- Tech lead for content management tools
- Built prototypes and demos for e-commerce and business applications
- Worked on- and off-site maintaining a close relationship with project and client leads
Production Specialist. T3 Media, 1998 - 1999
- Development lead for larger team oriented projects
- Streamlined and improved production process
- Provided on-site client training and mentored new developers
Skills
Drupal
- Custom and contrib module development for Drupal 6, 7 and 8
- Data migration from external sources and from previous versions of Drupal
- Performance optimization and caching strategies
- Continuous integration, testing, and deployment
Programming Technologies
- Back-end: PHP (PHPUnit, Symfony), Grunt.js, Node.js, Jekyll, Coldfusion, ASP.NET/C#
- Front-end: HTML5, CSS, SASS/Compass, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Backbone.js
Servers, Databases, and Software
- Linux, OSX, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, Jenkins, Varnish, Memcache
Other Areas of Knowledge
- User interface, usability, and Information Architecture
Education
- State University of New York Purchase; Bachelors of Fine Arts, 1996
- Brooklyn Technical High School; Architecture major, 1992