Mar 2020 – Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Designed and implemented a company-wide local development environment template that
• supported SSL/TLS & HTTPS, reducing initial developer overhead, increasing productivity
• across multiple teams, and minimized discrepancies between local, staging, and production
• Improved, upgraded, and maintained developer-facing Django websites to integrate and
• automate control of critical deployment infrastructure
• Optimized and managed essential components including load balancers, caching systems,
• Cl/CD configurations, and monitoring systems
• Unified the message queue infrastructure and reduced complexity during upgrades by
• migrating teams across the company from on-prem hosted RabbitMQ instances to CloudAMQP
• using Terraform
• Leveraged Terraform to migrate from Hashicorp Vault to AWS Secrets Manager during a
• strategic organization to move on-prem services to cloud-based services

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Reduced development time and error rates for dozens of multi-site international-language
• supported WordPress websites and plugins by integrating with the WP API, e-commerce
• vendors, message queues, and various in-house and third-party services.
• Modernized our tech stack, allowing for easier debugging of version control and an easier time
• hiring talent, by leading the effort to transition the team from Mercurial to Github
• Reduced downtime by 1-2 days per week for six developers and better mirrored the production
• environment on developer's local machines by creating a cross-operating system compatible
• Dockerized local development
• Reduced security risk and modernized the tech stack by leading major improvements
• including: upgrading our stack from PHP 5.6 to 7.2, upgrading PHP as new minor versions came
• out, implementing containerization in our deployment process so staging better mirrored
• production, as well as discovering multiple bugs in our host's environment and working with
• their staff to quickly resolve them

Jun 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Lead WordPress development for SC's clients by developing the frontend and backend of the website from design files made by other team members
• Optimized websites at the frontend and backend level to reduce load times
• Configured Google Analytics to track links specific to a client's needs, and created reports to show what various clients needed to focus on in order to grow their web traffic. This often led to follow up work for Serendipity Creative
• For certain clients, I setup the git repository deployment, so the system would be more automated for staging/production deployments and the client would not get billed as much for administrative work

Sep 2013 – Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Fairfax, VA

• I work as a freelance contractor for several clients, primarily using:
• WordPress, ExpressionEngine
• PHP
• Ruby on Rails
• MySQL, MariaDB
• CSS, Sass, LESS, Foundation Framework, Bootstrap Framework
• HTML, Haml
• Javascript, jQuery
• Apache, Ngnix
• Git, Bitbucket
• DeployHQ, Codeship
• LAMP
• DigitalOcean, WPEngine
• SEO, schema.org, Google rich snippets
• Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Moz
• Pivotal Tracker, Codebase, Basecamp
• Slack, Hipchat
• I specialize in responsive design, SEO optimization, page speed optimization, WordPress and many different types of custom solutions to projects.

Jul 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Richmond, VA

• Cornercubicle.net is a web development and random ramblings blog created and maintained by me. For the web development section, I write about topics such as responsive design, LAMP, Wordpress, jQuery and HTML5/CSS3.
• You can check it out here: http://cornercubicle.net
• It works across all devices - cell phones, iPads and desktops! It's powered by Wordpress and Foundation Framework 4.

Jan 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Richmond, Virginia Area

• I'm part of a small team that takes on anything from CMS-powered brochure-style websites to giant Rails projects like the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (http://hsf.net).
• Sometimes you can catch me chugging away at some Ruby on Rails or ExpressionEngine, but I'm mostly the team's WordPress go-to girl.
• Some of my most challenging assignments are through this company, so it's a blast. I'm always having to learn something new.

Aug 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Richmond, Virginia

• Wanting to learn more about web development, I found myself at Torx Media. At Torx, not only do I continue what I used to do at Allegro, but I've become a key part to responsive design and application development, among other things. Since my arrival here, I've worked extensively with Wordpress - building out the client-branded templates, creating custom post types and plugins and working around its limitations in order to deliver what the client needed.
• In rare occasions of downtime, I either task myself with server maintenance on my own virtual machine, built on Centos 6/RedHat linux, Apache 2, PHP5.4+ and MySQL 5.5+, or I find ways to do my current tasks at work more efficiently - like using SASS as a pre-compiler to CSS.

Dec 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Although I could easily say, "I've made websites," I've done more that just that.
• I've designed the mockups that our clients see, customized them to their liking, designed the EER diagram of the database, designed the database, through the help of management and the client, I've created the functionality and design of the website while making it cross-browser compatible and secure - and to top it off, I've designed documentation for every website I've made.