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Last Update: July 27, 2024
Notion, WordPress, Gutenberg, VS Code, CodePen, GitHub, Figma, Netlify, JavaScript, React, Sanity, Hugo, Drupal, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Data Studio, MouseFlow, MySQL, NoSQL, HTML5, Pug, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap, Node, Gulp, Webpack, Express, DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, PaaS, Rest API, Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, TypeScript, Jest, Mocha, Firebase
The Internet is my passion, and I love building apps, platforms, and websites. I've loved it since the late 1990's, designing mediocre hobby sites as a pre-teen. Even when working in different industries (software testing, accounting, education), I always made a point to involve myself with the web component of the business or organization. That led to my first foray into small business at RoPurt, followed by my eventual role as Digital Project Manager at Pixels 360, and more recently with my role as founding Technical Manager at netamorphosis.
Currently, I serve as Lead Front-End Developer at Astute Communications. Despite wearing various hats at times as a teacher, coach, writer, software tester, web designer, project manager, and technical manager — working through design, development, and data cycles — the web remains my ongoing obsession. My primary tool of choice when developing projects is full-stack JavaScript, and I'm always eager to take on my next challenge or opportunity.
Web Development & Manager I've been building sites for more than 25 years, and have more than 20 years of experience with the world's leading CMS platforms. Currently, I'm more focused on JavaScript and building the next great landing page builder.
Documentation Evangelist I leverage my degree in Writing & Rhetoric at every job, primarily in the form of copious documentation. I love building knowledge bases, and am a firm believer that if you're going to do it more than once, it's a good idea to write down what it is.
Engineering Team Lead I've had the honor to work on some talented teams, including in leadership, advisory, and mentorship roles. I love assembling and stewarding a team of hungry developers and engineers.
Information Architect My OCD has paid off when it comes to IA. I excel at structuring internal process data. My tool of choice, you guessed it, is usually Notion. But I also dabble with Asana, Confluence, AirTable, Monday, etc.
I'm usually working on a hobby project, and have a number of public items available on my GitHub and **CodePen** accounts. Some of the newer (or more novel) projects are outlined below. There’s more to showcase on my website. Enjoy!
Title Tally (Vue) — work in progress, Codepen ****A quick data visualization app ranking sports teams by number of championships won. Written in Vue, and data management powered by Notion.
Win City (Vanilla) — work in progress, Codepen ****A quick interactive infographic outlining Boston's unprecedented playoff and championship runs across the five major sports. Written in vanilla JS and data powered by Notion.
Mat Stat (Vanilla) — work in progress, Codepen ****Another data visualization project, this time centered on the win-loss records of professional wrestlers across major promotions (AEW, WWE, NJPW, etc.). Written in vanilla JS and data powered by Notion.
Scoreboard (Vanilla) — work in progress, Codepen ****An attempt to create a working scoreboard for scoring/broadcasting high school basketball games. The scoreboard is keyboard-controlled, and the score scroll is overlaid on top of a video source.
2022 — now
Founder @ Petrin Development Services, Boston, MA (Remote)
As Founder, I’m responsible for all client strategy related to web design, web development, hosting, and SEO/SEM. I serve as the primary project manager for all aspects of the ideation, design, development, and deployment processes, facilitating both myself and through my network of contacts.
2022 — now
Technical Delivery Director @ Astute Communications, Nashville, TN (Remote)
As Lead Front-End Developer, I work closely with the Design department to translate their work into living-and-breathing code for our clients. I manage the entire front-end process for our team, and have a great deal of autonomy into the tooling used to get the job done.
2021 — 2022
Technical Manager @ netamorphosis, New York City (Remote)
As the founding Technical Manager, I learned the n e t a process, and where I could help it scale. I completely managed all internal development processes, which includes vendor management, project management, staffing, UAT, design handoff and delivery, internal scrums and external standups. What I couldn’t delegate, I did (the hell out of).
2017 — 2021
Digital Project Manager & Engineering Team Lead @ Pixels 360, Rockland, MA
As Digital Project Manager, I overhauled all internal development processes, while simultaneously balancing satellite team and freelancer management. I composed multiple test templates, executed against them, built internal UAT processes, and cultivated a documentation-first policy.
As Engineering Team Lead, I additionally took on more direct management of the team and each teammate. I advised upper management on practice-based team goals, including areas of professional development to increase team service offerings.
Customers included: VMware, Harvard University, Docker, Dockercon
2012 — 2017
Teacher & Teaching Aid @ Various, Central Massachusetts
As a Social Studies teacher, I taught Psychology, History, Current Events, Civics, Political Science, World Geography, and AP Government to grades 6 through 12.
As a long-term substitute Special Education teacher, I led academic support classes to reinforce learning skills for grades 9 through 12, and assisted general education teachers in employing necessary accommodations for students on IEPs and 504 Plans.
As a Teaching Aide, I assisted general education teachers in the employing of IEP accommodations, both in full-class and 1:1 assignments.
2011 — 2013
Founding Web Developer, Co-Founder @ RoPurt, LLC, Warwick, RI
A friend and I joined forces to help local businesses develop a basic web presence. Primarily brochure sites, but also a niche for online ordering at pizza joints. A fun opportunity to get my feet wet in client management and web development at scale.