EXPERIENCE
COMSOL, Inc.
July 2015 - Present
Burlington, MA
Vice President of Web OperationsSep 2025 - Present
  • Direct and coordinate the resources of multiple teams - PHP Web Development, Web Experience, and the Paid Ads and Web Analytics teams.
    • Resource Capacity Planning
    • Strategic Roadmapping
    • Vendor Negotiation and Onboarding
    • Technical Mentorship
    • Hiring/Firing Decisions
    • People Management
  • Collaborate directly with global leadership across 15+ countries (Americas, Europe, and Asia) to standardize workflows
  • Oversaw the Search & Answer Engine Optimization (AEO/SEO) strategy for the company.
    • Adobe LLM Optimizer
    • Google Search Console
    • Google Analytics 4
    • Matamo
    • systemd timers
    • bash
    • python
    • apache httpd
    • puppet
  • Architected and implemented enterprise-wide JIRA workflows. Managed the web development ecosystem supporting a robust environment for sandboxing, staging, and production with a mature CI/CD pipeline.
    • JIRA
    • Bamboo
    • Bitbucket
    • git
    • PHPUnit
    • puppet
    • apache httpd
    • MariaDB
    • solr
  • Own the company's global email marketing infrastructure, ensuring strict adherence to global privacy laws and high-volume delivery.
    • DKIM
    • DMARC
    • SPF
    • BIMI
    • One-click Unsubscribe
    • mailchimp transactional emails
    • Google Postmaster Tools
    • Feedback Loops
    • Postfix
    • fuglu
    • puppet
Senior Web ManagerDec 2018 - Sep 2025
  • Directed and oversaw the Web Experience and Backend PHP Development teams.
    • Technical Mentorship
    • Code Reviews
    • Code Debt Management
    • Hiring/Firing Decisions
    • People Management
  • Responsible for both the public website the internal intranet. Oversaw tool development for internal workflows and custom content management systems for the website.
    • LAMP Stack
    • Rocky Linux 8+
    • Apache 2.x httpd
    • MySQL and MariaDB
    • Apache SOLR
    • PHP 5.3+
    • Zend Framework 1 and 2
    • LESS and SASS
  • Led the emergency architecture, development, and deployment of an in-house virtual conference platform in under 5 months. This enabled COSMOL to succesfully pivot from in-person to digital conference with minimal interuption.
    • node.js server
    • websockets
    • PHP
  • Managed distributed database architecture across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, executing comprehensive GDPR compliance rollout ensuring legal adherence in all operating regions.
    • MariaDB
    • gtid and bin-log replication
    • PHP
    • Zend Framework 2
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of a proprietary real-time sql replication monitoring tool.
    • MariaDB
    • Node.js
    • Websockets
Back-end Web Team LeadJul 2016 - Dec 2018
  • Led the Backend PHP development team instituting higher standards for code quality and driving key architectural decisions.
    • Code Reviews
    • Sytem Architecture
    • Distributed Systems
    • Technical Mentorship
    • Onboarding & Training
    • People Management
  • Worked in partnership with Frontend Leadership to create project timelines and allocate resources to ensure alignment on business priorities.
Back-end PHP DeveloperJul 2015 - Jul 2016
  • Re-architected the SQL schema and Solr caching layer for the company's global event and training calendar to significantly reduce query times and improve page load times.
  • Helped refactor legacy codebases to modern MVC frameworks.
  • Engineered dynamic form validation modules within the Zend Framework 2 ecosystem. This enabled the Web Experience team to design forms without the assistance of a php developer
  • Partnered with frontend development teams to translate visual designs into html, css, and JavaScript.
Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
August 2012-May 2015
University of Maryland - College Park, MD
IT Programmer IAugust 2012 - May 2015
  • Lead a group of developers for the purpose of upgrading and maintaining all of JIFSAN websites and applications.
  • Completed the rebuild of many JIFSAN websites from a plethora of different languages(static HTML, Coldfusion, PHP) to a modern MVC framework(cakePHP) integrated with Wordpress.
  • Designed, implemented and maintained a development/production infrastructure including a proper work flow to ensure a fully stable release to the production environment.
  • Upgraded infrastructure from physical machines to virtual machines using current hypervisor technology.
  • Responsible for full webstack development including, but not limited to domain name servers, mail server(with SMTP, POP3, SPF and DKIM), reverse proxy, and firewalls.
  • Partnered with the system administrator to setup a full Active Directory infrastructure, including a fresh domain controller, all AD policies, integrating printers into the enviroment, and setting up WSUS for updates.
Department of Transportation
August 2011 - August 2012
University of Maryland - College Park, MD
IT Programmer
  • Updated and assisted in maintaining internal applications for the department.
  • Assisted with asset management including ensuring all data was removed from computers before sale.
  • Created and implemented programing solutions to aid employees with daily tasks.
  • Maintained over 150 computers and 40 printers.
  • Aided in responding to help desk tickets.
EDUCATION
B.S. in Computer Science,
minor Business Administration
University of Maryland Global Campus