Lead Application Developer
Digital Media, Media General, Inc., Richmond, Virginia
11/10 – Present
- With direction from leadership build, manage, deploy and maintain both mobile and web strategies.
- Research and explore Social Media integration, strategies and exploits.
- Build dynamic database applications, and troubleshoot current products in production.
- Responsible for direction in database tuning and performance.
- Interface with clients at varied levels of technological expertise, ability to work independently with a high degree of flexibility, excellent organizational and documentation skills.
- Adept of both existing and emerging technologies and how those technologies can be used in implementing solutions.
- Maintain and develop Enterprise-Wide Mobile and Web weather strategies.
- Identify new technologies, understand their applicability and learn to effectively apply them to our sites.
- Design and deploy Enterprise web products through a Django based Framework.
- Design and deploy Enterprise mobile (Android, Blackberry, etc.) products.
- Design and deploy Enterprise iPhone Applications.
- Perform program coding and testing at the page level. Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
- Develop and deploy all projects within an Agile environment with close adherence to its structure, rules and procedures.
Media General
Media General (MEG – NYSE)
Media General is a leading provider of news, information and entertainment across multiple media platforms, serving consumers and advertisers in strong local markets, primarily in the Southeastern United States. Media General’s operations are organized in five geographic market segments and a sixth segment called Digital Media.
The company’s operations include 18 network-affiliated television stations and associated Web sites, 21 daily newspapers and associated Web sites, more than 200 specialty publications that include weekly newspapers, and niche publications targeted to various demographic, geographic and topical communities of interest. Many of the company’s specialty publications have associated Web sites.
Media General operates three interactive advertising services companies: Blockdot, which specializes in interactive entertainment and advergaming technologies; DealTaker.com, a coupon and shopping Web site; and NetInformer, a leading provider of wireless media and mobile marketing services.
