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Project and technology professional with extensive experience across project delivery, software development, systems integration, platform migrations, data, and digital products. Combines a strong technical foundation with project leadership, requirements analysis, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration.
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Experience
Founder & Digital Technology Consultant
Auva StudioFormalizing my consulting services under Auva Studio, productizing 20+ years of technology experience into clearly scoped service packages.
Building websites, providing technology consulting and project support (tool selection, process reviews, fractional project leadership), and helping teams adopt AI and emerging technology through workshops, readiness plans and prototypes.
Serving small businesses, startups, nonprofits and growing teams in the Hudson Valley, New York City and remotely across the US.
Project Manager / XR Producer
Independent Consultant
Led delivery of 14+ interactive VR, mobile, and desktop projects from requirements and planning through launch and ongoing operations for multiple independent studios.
Managed Agile delivery for cross-functional teams of 5–8 engineers, designers, artists, and QA contributors through sprint planning, backlog management, milestone tracking, release coordination, and LiveOps.
Translated product vision and stakeholder requirements into executable delivery plans, structuring features into milestones, backlogs, actionable tickets, and production documentation while coordinating dependencies, blockers, and QA.
Adapted delivery plans as requirements, team capacity, dependencies, and Meta Horizon Worlds platform capabilities changed, supporting teams through evolving TypeScript, Blender, and cross-platform development workflows.
Software Engineer (Backend)
Gannett / USA TODAY Network (formerly GateHouse Media)
Developed Go and GraphQL backend and migration services supporting enterprise publishing operations and newspaper consolidation onto Gannett’s proprietary publishing platform.
Built and tested data-transformation logic, validating migrated data through automated tests and GraphQL/PostgreSQL queries before production release.
Improved reporting accuracy by cleaning and deduplicating publishing data in BigQuery and building Looker Studio reporting across newspapers and time periods.
Improved production reliability through debugging, code reviews, refactoring, testing, and ongoing backend enhancements while collaborating across engineering, database, DevOps, product, and QA teams.
Senior Web Applications Developer
GateHouse Media (formerly Local Media Group, Inc.)
Integrated newly acquired newspapers into shared enterprise publishing platforms through content migration, authentication, third-party integrations, configuration, and site customization.
Implemented an Amazon Alexa voice-news integration across 8 newspapers, developing the API integration and database mapping connecting publication-specific content with Alexa Flash Briefings.
Expanded publishing platform capabilities through REST API integrations and reusable applications supporting editorial workflows, subscription services, and newspaper migrations.
Senior Software Architect
Local Media Group, Inc. (formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group)
Provided architectural guidance and technical leadership for publishing platforms supporting 33 community publications, including 8 daily newspapers and 15 weekly newspapers.
Guided technology decisions by evaluating frameworks, tools, and technologies that improved platform scalability, maintainability, and long-term stability.
Mentored software engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and development best practices that strengthened engineering consistency.
Web Applications Developer
Dow Jones Local Media Group
Modernized digital publishing platforms by developing CMS-based web applications and integrating REST APIs with internal systems and third-party publishing services supporting 33 community publications.
Led technical discovery for a legacy content migration by reverse-engineering HTML archives, identifying content patterns and exceptions, and documenting transformation requirements that enabled decades of editorial content to move into an enterprise CMS.
Received the 2011 Chairman Award in recognition of technical contributions and platform delivery.
Web Developer, Web Specialist
Times Herald-Record
Developed websites and web applications supporting newsroom operations, advertising teams, and commercial clients while expanding the organization’s digital presence.
Automated a manual advertising workflow by developing a PHP/MySQL client portal that collected recurring customer data and generated structured output for downstream print production.
Editorial Production Assistant
Times Herald-Record
Sports agate, obituaries and classifieds.
Skills
Project, business and operations
Systems and technical
Tools and platforms
Languages
Education and credentials
B.A., Information Technology major, Communications minor. Mount Saint Mary College, 2004.
Salesforce Business Analyst training, in progress
Scrum Master certification, in progress
Google Project Management Professional Certificate, in progress
Mixed Reality (XR) Certificate, SUNY Westchester Community College, 2024
Meta Horizon Worlds Creator Academy, 2025
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