2012–Present

Web and Publishing Systems Developer, Scribe Inc., Philadelphia, PA

  • Maintained and deployed all company-managed Drupal and WordPress sites on the Pantheon platform.
  • Migration to Pantheon cut deployment time by 30%.
  • Lead theme developer for all company-produced Drupal and WordPress sites.
  • Led front-end development of web application that allows Scribe clients to publish content to a variety of output formats, including EPUB, Kindle, and XML. Web application has cut title conversion times by 25%.
  • Developed and deployed a custom production system for company-wide use on a PHP MVC framework.
  • Transitioned company project data from existing Microsoft SQL system into current MySQL database model.
  • Migrated existing CRM system from SugarCRM to BaseCRM.
  • Developed custom content archives using Drupal 7 and Apache Solr that serves as the main search tool for major publishers.
  • Project manager for transitioning content from legacy formats into modern XML.
  • Wrote custom importer to create Drupal nodes based on custom data model.
  • Developed theme and UI for specialized site users. Acted as lead architect for server LAMP stack and managed DNS updates andnetwork configuration.

2008–2012

XML Developer, Project Manager, Scribe Inc., Philadelphia, PA

  • Acted as project manager for development of an archival site, which houses XML content from over 100 years of lectures on natural theology.
  • Developed custom content management tool and migrated site to a Microsoft environment.
  • Oversaw scanning and OCR of over 100 titles and provided regular reports to client PMs.

2004–2007

E-book Developer, Scribe Inc., Philadelphia, PA

  • Led the development of medical texts in Mobipocket.
  • Built educational materials for use with Palm devices, Microsoft Reader, and Adobe Reader.
  • Assisted with development and conversion of print materials to XML for display on the web.

2003–2004

E-book Developer, OverDrive Inc., Cleveland, OH

  • Project lead for title conversion to Mobipocket and Adobe Reader for two major publishers.
  • Co-lead for digitization of New Yorker issues via Photoshop scripting.