Director of Ecommerce
March 2016 - Present Westlake Village, CA
Guitar Center / Musician's Friend
Helped drive user experience, product development, and site operations for GCI brands (GuitarCenter.com, Musiciansfriend.com, Music123.com,
and WWBW.com). Planned, coordinated, and supervised all activities related to the design, development and rollout of new site features,
enhancements and functionality. Collaborated on projects with marketing, merchandising and development teams. Provided web subject matter
expertise and transition technology knowledge to clients and vendors/business partners. Helped participate in functional and business
requirements, online help, feature lists, flow charts, interactive prototypes, and development guidelines. Collaborated on development
roadmap with stakeholders to ensure prioritization of workload. Coordinated, reviewed, and approved the wireframes and visuals of the
UX/UI Teams.
Web Development Manager
March 2012- March 2016 Westlake Village, CA
Guitar Center / Musician's Friend
Oversaw the transition of the Musician's Friend web development to the new corporate head quarters, hiring and training a
team of new front-end web developers, and helped manage a team of offshore backend java developers. Established processes
for ticket triage, prioritization and approval, lead agile/scrum sprints & daily stand-ups, QA, User Acceptance Testing, and
code releases. Completed jquery mobile MusiciansFriend.com, resulting in 50% faster pageloads and a 40% lift in revenue.
Migrated old GuitarCenter.com desktop and mobile websites to ATG/Endeca platform & new OMS system, running off shared code
with MusiciansFriend.com.
Front-End Web Developer
2010-2012 Medford, OR
Musician's Friend / Guitar Center
Helped transition
MusiciansFriend.com
(
44th largest e-retailer)
&
Music123.com to their next generation ATG Dynamo / Java platform.
Took a lead role in integrating the BorderFree/FiftyOne International sales & shipping system, implementing Unica NetInsight & Adobe Omniture
traffic analysis suites, optimizing front-end site performance, and converting the
Woodwind & Brasswind site to the new platform.
Assisted with Musicians Friend Mobile website.
Trained the new front-end development team at the new Guitar Center location in California.
Full-Stack Developer
2007-2010 Portland, OR
Concrete CMS
ConcreteCMS was ranked by Entrepreneur magazine as Portland's top web design firm.
Assisted in the development of
Lemonade, Time Magazine and CNN website of the year for 2007.
Helped to develop and launch the
Concrete5 concrete management
system at
OSCON 2008,
& joined them at
SXSW 2010.
Involved in the design and development of various other web 2.0, e-commerce, and social networking
websites, such as
ShopText,
Schoolpulse,
WordStock Festival,
getConcrete5,
Sustainable Harvest, and
Monsoon.
Currently still sell & support a collection of my own
concrete5 website plugins.
Front-End Developer
2007 Vancouver, WA
Dreamwatts / Powermand
Developed the AJAX/JAVA driven web-app for the
Dreamwatts™ System by Powermand, Inc., comprised of a
hardware / software solution for "Home Climate Control & Energy Management". We utilized the Spring MVC framework, Hibernate for database mapping, and a
highly interactive AJAX/Javascript/Flash front-end.
Full-Stack Developer
1999-2015 AZ, WA, OR & CA
Freelance Web Design and Development
8+ years independent contracting experience in Website Design and Development
with industry leading web firms.
Specializing in Web 2.0 / AJAX driven interfaces,
and complex web applications.
Business Development Manager
2006 Portland OR
SoldItLive.com
Business Development Manager
for the IT department of
SoldItLive, and performed the lead role in the design and development of the project.
