Recent Experience

Digital Publishing Consultant and Lead Developer
2008 - present. RachaelRayShow.com, New York, NY.
rachaelrayshow.com

• Improved responsiveness of site to user requests and business priorities.
• Backend performance optimzations, including: caching, compression, and data cleanup.
• Stabilized server performance during peak usage.
• Reduced production release time from 4h to 15m through aggressive automation of release procedures.
• Reduced database size by ~ 92% (27GB to 2GB).
• Implemented enhanced recipe search functionality.
• Increased yearly unique visitors by 20% (2009 vs 2008).

Digital Publishing Consultant
2008. Weisner Media, New York, NY.
wiesnermedia.com

• Designed publishing system which reduced monthly production work by 66% (3 weeks to 1 week).

Digital Publishing Consultant
2006 - present. Wicks Business Information / Summit Business Media, New York, NY.
wbi.com

• Revamped online publications, leading to increased online revenue and a successful sale to Summit Business Media.
• Integrated Wicks products with Summit Business Media architecture.
• Designed and implemented architecture to support multiple online publications.
• Built publishing tools for site editors.
• Developed consistent process to define and migrate online publications.

Director of Technology
2006 - 2008. Rhizome.org, New York, NY.
rhizome.org

• Stablized and improved site performance. Implemented performance monitoring.
• Consolidated codebase from 4 languages (Perl, Ruby, PHP 3, PHP 4) to one (PHP4)
• Developed list management tools for email marketing.
• Reported site analytics to Board.
• Developed tagged database of digital art, and publishing tools for site editors.
• Created resource guides and search tools for institutional subscribers.
• Maintained online payment system.

Software Engineer
2002 - 2006. Source Media, New York, NY.
sourcemedia.com

• Developed and maintained content management system for 35 sites in 13 business units.
• Managed development risk across business units with version control systems.
• Leveraged existing systems to form unified toolsets with newer systems.
• Standardized and streamlined web production processes.
• Consolidated servers from 3 ISPs into single facility without interruption of service.
• Configured web sites for automatic failover.
• Developed scripts for server maintenance.
• Diagnosed network errors and developed automated reports for network engineers.

Lectures and Panels

Panelist, Open Source: On the Line, The New School, 2006, NY.
Presenter, Ruby / Smalltalk, Smalltalk NYC, 2006, NY.
Panelist, Interesting Day Jobs: The Dual Lives of Creative Professionals, Pratt Institute, 2005, NY.
Panelist, Blogging and the Arts, Rhizome at the New Museum, 2005, NY.
Guest Lecturer, International Center Photography, 2005, NY.
Presenter, Fourth International Ruby Conference, 2004, Washington, DC.
Guest Lecturer, New York University, 2003, NY.
Presenter, Second International Ruby Conference, 2002, Seattle, WA.

Education

1995-1999, New York University, New York, NY, BS in Studio Art with additional studies in Mathematics. Graduated Cum Laude, 3.6 GPA.

Department of Art and Art Professions Student Excellence Award, Honors Scholar, Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Award.

Technologies

Tools:	Ant, CVS, Ethereal, Maven, Rake, Subversion, Unison
Frameworks:	CakePHP, Django, Rails, Zend Framework
Languages:	ASP, C, Coldfusion, Java, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Visual Basic
Servers:	Apache, exim, IIS, iPlanet, iMail, Lyris ListManager, memcached, sendmail, Squid, Tomcat
Databases:	Access, Firebird, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
Client:	AJAX, CSS, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Java Applets, Processing
Graphics:	Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark