Senior Software Engineer · Medina, Ohio
For 12 years I have run the technical side of a digital marketing agency: a plugin suite on 200+ WordPress sites, a Django control plane that watches over them, and the standards the team builds with.
12
years running the technical side of a marketing agency
200+
client WordPress sites on the platform I built
2 → 7
people on the team, from when I joined to today
400+
pages on a hospital multisite with a synced provider directory
01 · Changelog
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Running AI-assisted development at scale with written specs, decision records and review gates.
Blue Canopy Marketing
Started as Lead Web Developer in March 2022 and moved to Senior Software Engineer in April. I set the tools, processes and standards our developers build with, advise the owner on scope, cost and feasibility, lead the Infinity Suite platform behind 200+ client sites, and have led three server migrations.
A-Tech, formerly Ashtabula County JVS
Helping guide the direction of the web development and software engineering curriculum at the school where I started.
Regional hospital system
Won and delivered a 400+ page, multi-domain WordPress multisite with the agency owner, and built its custom plugins, including a physician and location directory that keeps provider data in one place and syncs it across every site. Passes Core Web Vitals in real-user data on mobile and desktop.
Built and licensed a subscription content feed that syndicates a central education library into any pharmacy site through a two-line embed, plus patient and provider portals.
Storey Marketing · Meadville, PA
Built and maintained client websites for the agency and ran its hosting on Liquid Web.
Computer Technology · AITP member
Completed coursework through senior-level classes. Won an AITP collegiate competition in St. Louis against a field that included MIT.
Computer Information Systems
Competed at BPA nationals in Washington, D.C. with a responsive CSS framework I built before Bootstrap was released.
Personal projects
Built a Gecko-based web browser and a multi-window code editor with live reload.
Visual Basic and C#
Started building desktop applications at age 12.
02 · Selected work
Modular WordPress plugin suite
Runs on more than 200 client sites. Modules include a resource portal with document scheduling, an interactive map, a timeline and a marquee, and every release has to pass a PHP test harness before it ships.
Django licensing and operations
Monitors uptime, catches fatal errors, enforces settings and distributes releases and licenses to the whole site fleet from one place.
Fourier-based vector format
A personal R&D project that describes shapes and motion as Fourier series. The latest prototype adds a motion lab, a full animation engine and a spectral motif matcher.
03 · Ventures
With my wife, I run Cool Coffee Co. and Cool Tea Co. out of Medina, Ohio: small-batch coffee and tea sold online and at the farmers market. I built the Shopify storefront and a companion mobile app.
Visit cool.coffee04 · Credentials