Experience the professional life of zzolo

Implementing interactive stories and pieces in collaboration with reporters and the data team.

• Working closely with reporters and editors to supplement stories with visual and interactive elements.
• Collaborating with the data team to create interactive stories based on compelling data sets.
• Promoting and implementing open source policies, including making almost all code written open on Github.
• Experimenting with open source technologies to enable new and cost-effective ways of telling the news.

Created open source tools for cities to utilize and replicate in multiple places, while shifting culture around technology use within government.

• Worked closely with the city of Seattle, while interviewing community members, to create solutions that fit the city's goals as service providers to citizens.
• Lead team in open sourcing main project focusing on enhancing civic engagement and encouraging citizens to address neighborhood needs.
• Actively learned new technologies, including Python and Node.js, on own and engaging other fellows with specific expertise.
• Mentored Google Summer of Code students in building PHP-based civic API wrappers.
• Built application focused on team building that highlights code commits.

Administered, developed, and enhanced the organization's web services, as well as managed the entire office technology infrastructure.

• Created and implemented upgrade path to Drupal 6 that focused on removing unnecessary structures, migrating to a more sustainable infrastructure, adding new geo-focused functionality, while minimizing downtime to the site.
• Managed multiple assistants with focus in areas such as systems administration, web administration, and web content management.
• Created and maintained a documentation repository that fully describes the infrastructure and services in the office.
• Enhanced the office and web infrastructure with open source tools to provide a stable, sustainable, robust, and scalable system.

Developed multiple Drupal solutions for the custom needs of non-profit organizations, with a focus on mapping and integrating CiviCRM.

• Collaborated in small teams to analyze, architect, and implement web application solutions.
• Created many custom Drupal modules to fit the needs of various projects, mainly modules that added integration between Drupal and CiviCRM.
• Planned and implemented migration paths for both sites and data.
• Lead an internal documentation initiative to help better organize the companies collective intellectual resources.

Provided development and leadership on large Drupal web projects.

• Collaborated in small teams with well-known Drupal community members to complete large scale web applications.
• Developed many custom Drupal modules to fit the specific needs of clients.
• Implemented themes based on design specifications.

Administered multiple MS SQL Server instances. Focused on cleaning, enhancing, and maintaining Jenzabar, an education-focused, integrated, database application. Maintained and developed multiple web sites and web servers. Focused on adding functionality to existing web sites.

• Provided technical support as well as created and lead a Jenzabar User Group.
• Enhanced security of both MS SQL Server and Jenzabar allowing for easier management and scalability.
• Collaborated with other IT members to establish sustainable development environment, including code versioning and backups.
• Worked towards standardizing and modularizing the code base for the multiple web sites.
• Optimized Apache and server configurations to significantly improve performance.

The following are significant projects that I have created or contributed to on Github.

• Legislature Tracker is a UI and editorial layer on top of the Open States API for a specific state.
• MN Boundary Service is an implementation of a boundary service for Minnesota.
• Change by Us focuses on encouraging citizen engagement to make their neighborhoods and cities better. This is not currently open source yet but will be soon.
• Commitalization is a Node.js application that utilizes Github webhooks to create a live visualization of selected projects.
• Badger v Panda provided a playful mechanism to vote on our mascot at Code for America; written with Node.js and utilizing websockets to provide a voting system where users can see as votes come in.
• City Hero, an early iteration on the engagement toolkit idea, it provides a handholding approach to help citizens participate in their cities; written on Node.js.
• HistoryNear.Me is a simple application to help people find historic sites near them; built for the San Diego Apps competition.

The following are significant projects that I have created or contributed to on Drupal.org.

• OpenLayers is a full featured integration module between the Drupal content system and the OpenLayers mapping library. This is a widely used module focused on flexibility and extensibility.
• Encryption provides a basic, pluggable encryption API for Drupal.
• TypeKit is a simple module integrating the TypeKit service with Drupal.
• Proxy creates a very basic web proxy for Drupal, made for the main purpose of running cross-site javascript requests.

A comprehensive program that focused on various systems and project management.

• Team Leader and Lead Programmer on final project building payroll system for current employer.