As the only programmer for 3 years, I was involved in virtually every aspect of the business. My first project was to co-author the RFP for a complete site overhaul, including new architecture, migrating to ASP.NET and new hosting provider. I developed the first reporting systems, from creating the first IIS logs and ASP/SQL Server reports to hiring a specialized developer for and migrating to Crystal Reports. I was project manager and developer of the email newsletter system through many iterations which still serves about 2 thousand emails a week. I gave semi-regular presentations on tech team developments to staff and wrote help documentation for end users. My duties also included maintaining server health with Keynote Red Alert and Qualys monitoring systems.

Wired migrated from an in-house Solaris/Perl/SSI/Sybase content management system to Vignette StoryServer (Solaris/TCL/SQL/Sybase) in October '99. I was on the launch team for this transition, which we did using the original visual design. Six months later, we launched a new visual site design; six months after that we launched a new database schema. I was brought in for these major changes, concentrating on front-end template display (the CDA). My CDA work included writing Perl scripts to retrieve XML distributions from Reuters and AP and integrating these feeds into the templates. Meanwhile, I was soley responsible for development, QA, and maintainance of the 6-day-a-week HTML and ASCII newsletter distributions (Perl/SQL/Sybase).

Lycos News was a WPS-based site that we migrated to multiple-tier Vignette/NT/ASP/XML. This complete visual and backend overhaul included reconciling all of the XML feeds - Wired News, Reuters photos and text, AP photos and text - and figuring out their communication across different infrastructure architectures. I created the first all-inclusive XML schema, integrated the current Perl "email to friend" scripts, and performed technical project management.

I was the technical project manager and coded 'beyond the banner' ad campaigns for Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and Compaq. Before that, I coordinated, and coded some, and qa'd the changeover from in-house NetGravity to outsourced DoubleClick adserving across all Unix sites. When I first started at Wired, I QA'd Animation Express before first launch. I later trained the first official QA staff when that department was created. There is a great video here under HotWired Archives by Kevin Hunsaker of many of the sites I worked on including RGB Gallery, Suck.com, Cocktail and LiveWired.