Project Manager, Web Design and Development, Consultant

Cristoforo G. Castiglione

*** ****** ** #*, ********** PA 15601

Phone: 586-***-**** Email: **@*********.***

Education:

University of North Texas (09/2007 – 08/2009) Degree received: BS in Computer Science

University of Michigan (1998 – 2005) BS in Computer Science, Minor: Art History

No Degree Received

Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “L. Sciascia” – Trapani, Italy (1993-1996)

Clarence M. Kimball High School – Royal Oak, Michigan (1996 -1997) Received: High School Diploma

Relevant Skills:

Management & Leadership:

Department Management

Chief Officer

Team Management

Team Staffing

Staff Training & Review

Email Marketing

Department Budgeting

Process Review and Restructuring

Marketing Campaign Design and Implementation

Digital and Print Marketing

Liaison Communication Between Departments

Liaison for External Contractors

UX/UI Design

Branding

Fundraising & Networking

Software/Web Based Technology:

Adobe Creative Cloud (Including but not limited to: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, Audition)

Autodesk Maya

Affinity Photo

Affinity Design

Microsoft Office

OpenOffice.org Suite

LibreOffice

Eclipse/SVN (IDE)

Aptify

Microsoft Expression Web

Magento

Typo3 and TypoScript (CMS)

SilverStripe (CMS)

CQ (CMS)

Wordpress (CMS)

Joomla (CMS)

Drupal

Sitefinity

Programming and Scripting Languages:

HTML/HTML 5

CSS

VB.NET

ASP.NET

JavaScript

jQuery

Mootools

Misc Frameworks

MySQL/SQL

C++

PHP

PERL

Relevant Work History:

Company: Independent Contractor

From: 1997 To: Present

Title: Consultant, Project Management, Developer & Designer

Description: Over the years I have been independently tasked and hired for a variety of projects involving different aspects of design, development, project management & consulting relating to business operations and marketing. Some examples of contract work by individuals or small businesses include but are not limited to:

Consulting for internal operation optimization, team building, hiring and reorganization.

Consulting on internal processes, infrastructure, technology stack and software used.

Project management from design, team building, phase development and design, task distribution, usage of ticket systems such as Jira, implementation, QA design and implementation, deployment, post deployment maintenance and updates.

Development and design of web based applications

Marketing consulting and implementation of campaigns for business’ social media, websites, print media, ad campaigns, and more.

Design and development of entire eCommerce and websites, online shops and optimization of profiles as third party sellers on platforms such as Amazon, Etsy, Walmart and more.

Digital and Print marketing and branding design.

Company: New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA)

From: July 2018 To: May 2020

Title: Web Development Manager

Description: Responsible for managing all web related projects and software/app development as well as the entire online presence, including the NYSSCPA websites, Email marketing and Social Media Management for the NYSSCPA professional society. The entire online suite of platforms employed by the NYSSCPA consists of a website (Sitefinity CMS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.Net, VB.Net, Aptify), eStore (ASP.Net, VB.Net, Aptify), Online Publication (WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript), Community Website (Higher Logic’s Exchange Platform), Email/Newsletter management system (Higher Logic’s Real Magnet). My responsibilities were to maintain, repair and enhance all systems. I was also in charge of many initiatives and projects of my own design or assigned to me such as: Developing an internal process for our email communications in order to streamline the process, develop a WordPress plugin for a publication process to extract HTML from a Quark generated HTML file, Landing Pages projects for conferences coordinating between artists, developers, and other departments, development of a mobile app for users to register for continuing education seminars for credits, and more.

Company: Brookhaven National Laboratory (Department of Energy)

From: August 2016 To: December 2017

Title: Applications Engineer

Description: Managed projects assigned to me, and developed web based applications, as well as responsible for daily content uploads for Media Communications department for feature articles and press releases following lab and press design and content formatting standards. Update, maintenance and development for all internal and external websites according to laboratory standards, for all scientific departments and research groups. Technologies used include but are not limited to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL and a custom built CMS. Use of Adobe CC, primarily Photoshop and Illustrator, also occurs daily for creation and enhancement of visual content. Provided consultation, training and teaching of languages such as HTML, CSS and tools such as Microsoft Expression Web for authors in different departments.

Company: Codecademy

From: January 2016 To: November 2016

Title: Advisor

Description: Assisted students in entire learning experience on Codecademy's online teaching platform from teaching to troubleshooting student code, to providing technical assistance with the learning platform itself. Provided guidance, expertise, explanation of concepts and programming principles to students, from basic programming and web development to more complex concepts.

Company: Sears Holdings Corporation

From: June 2013 To: January 2015

Title: Engineer

Description: Front end web development primarily with some back end development in a LAMP environment, using HTML/CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Enhancing currently used technologies for monitoring such as Nagios and MetaWatch, as well as editing and updating existing code which uses jQuery, Google Charts API and Graphite API. Spearheading projects for future self serve applications as well as enhancing development environment through advocacy of versioning software and repositories such as SVN and GIT and a streamlined IDE. Also responsible for the update and maintenance of a company-wide web based console for viewing server monitoring status, graphs and messages. Developed graphical themes for the web based console, proving different UI's and UX for users based on their preferences.

Company: MRM Worldwide

From: April 2012 To: Sept 2012

Title: Freelance Front End Web Developer

Description: Part of the General Motors Fleet team working on gmfleet.com redesign, implementation and deployment through CSS fixes, javascript and interacting with other teams and technologies such as Adobe CQ.

Company: Thierry Corporation

From: Jan 2010 To: July 2011

Title: Web Developer

Description: Head of Web development and design of all company web related website and projects, involving the following task including but not limited to: web scripting (PHP, Javascript, jQuery, and Mootools, layout and graphical design using Adobe products, consultation services on various IT and Web technology related issues, light web hosting and server maintenance. Maintained sister e-commerce site running on Magento. Was sole developer and designer in charge of redesigning UI and UX and updating content management system themes.

Company: WUMD, University of Michigan

From: January 2003 To: July 2003

Title: Radio and Mobile Disc Jockey

Description: Provided in studio music production and entertainment as a Studio and Mobile Disc Jockey for private events. Created, produced and wrote a morning show for university students, put together custom playlists, reviewed albums and more in studio.

Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

From: May 2002 To: September 2002

Title: Intern

Description: Head of digitization project, converting physical documents to a digital format. Created various on line forms in different formats and created a new section in the ISHR departmental intranet site following web design and coding standards of Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Company: Ameritech – YellowPages.net Department

From: May 1997 To: November 1997

Title: Intern

Description: Scanned, modified and created logos for companies to meet Ameritech web publishing standards using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, for the online yellowpages department.

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