Designer, developer, and editor interested in web publishing.
EXPERIENCE
Senior product manager, The New York Times
New York – 2019 to present
- Product lead for two teams: one building Oak, a web application used by the newsroom to edit and publish articles (read more here); and another responsible for the architecture and expressive capabilities of New York Times article pages across platforms (web, apps, off-platform)
Product manager + design lead, The New York Times
New York – 2016 to 2019
- Product and design lead for Oak, a new story creation and editing tool
- Design lead for Scoop, the content management system used within the Times to produce and publish the paper, online and in print
Director of reader experience, Atavist
New York – 2013 to 2016
- Designed and developed beautiful reading experiences for users of Atavist’s web publishing platform
- Collaborated on the design and development of Atavist’s innovative CMS, which allows users to create stories by piecing together flexible content blocks
- Contributed art direction and story design to The Atavist Magazine, a 2015 winner of the National Magazine Award
Founding editor, Bklynr
New York — 2012 to 2015
- Founded an online publication dedicated to telling in-depth stories about Brooklyn, named the borough’s best longform website by The L Magazine
- Designed and built Bklynr’s subscription-based website
- Oversaw the twice-monthly production of Bklynr by recruiting writers, editing stories, designing issue layouts, and occasionally contributing
- Created “Block by Block, Brooklyn’s Past and Present,” an interactive map representing the year of construction of Brooklyn’s 320,000-odd buildings, which was included in The Best American Infographics 2014
User education specialist, Google
New York – 2012 to 2013
- Worked with the Google Drive product, marketing, and design teams to make Drive easier to learn and use
- Wrote Google Drive’s help materials and kept them up to date, easy to understand, and nice to look at
Technical account manager, Google
New York – 2011 to 2012
- Provided consultative support to top-tier publishers that use Google’s DoubleClick suite of ad serving products
- Designed and helped build internal Google tools and sites
Editorial fellow, Talking Points Memo
New York – 2010
- Maintained and helped develop TPM PollTracker, a web application that aggregated and organized results from political polls conducted nationwide
- Wrote dozens of stories about political polling and trends uncovered by public opinion surveys
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Proficient in web development fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Experience with web development best practices, including responsive design, accessible design, and approaches to measuring and improving performance
- Experience working with a number of developer tools, technologies, and services, including Git, GitHub, Webpack, Node, NPM, AWS, GCP, Firebase, and others
- Proficiency with React
- Experience building WordPress sites and working knowledge of PHP
- Proficiency with Photoshop, InDesign, and Sketch
EDUCATION
Columbia University
New York – Class of 2011
- B.A. in English and political science
- Graduated summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa