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Chris Heisel

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Experience

Lincoln Loop

• Tech­ni­cal Project Man­ager, Octo­ber 2009 – Present

  Over­sees active projects and facil­i­tates com­mu­ni­ca­tion between clients and developers/engineers. Sets budget and time­line expec­ta­tions on new client requests, man­ages project bud­gets, runs weekly staff meet­ing, cre­ates and man­ages sprint task lists and back­logs. Qual­ity assur­ance duties include test­ing items as com­pleted by devel­op­ers and main­tain­ing our con­tin­u­ous inte­gra­tion server. Both clients and project teams are remote, spread across sev­eral timezones.

ajc.com / accessatlanta.com

• Man­ager of Online Devel­op­ment, Jan­u­ary 2007 – Octo­ber 2009

  Lead a team of Python appli­ca­tion devel­op­ers, coorid­i­nat­ing their efforts with design, QA and oper­a­tions. Worked with busi­ness stake­hold­ers on fea­ture scope and pri­or­i­ti­za­tion. Work included con­tent pub­lish­ing, social media and vendor inte­gra­tion. Also man­aged the roll­out of a large Word­PressMU setup.

• Tech­nol­ogy Man­ager, July 2005 – Jan­u­ary 2007

  Man­aged an addi­tional devel­oper, cre­ated custom Web-​based appli­ca­tions and Web sites. Pro­vided tech­nol­ogy con­sul­ta­tion and advice, man­aged vendor relationships.

• Web devel­oper, August 2003 – July 2005

  Devel­oped con­tent man­age­ment system for a paid-​content sports site, set up free blog­ging infra­struc­ture and built custom Web appli­ca­tions for use by the news­room and public.

University of Missouri

• Adjunct fac­ulty, May – August 2003

  Taught the advanced copy edit­ing and basic design course in the School of Journalism

Columbia Missourian

• Assis­tant News Editor, May 2001 – May 2003 Duties include read­ing copy before place­ment on page, design­ing pages as needed, super­vis­ing the work of the copy edi­tors and design­ers, assist­ing the night news editor as needed.

  Other posi­tions: Night news editor, page designer

The Indianapolis Star

• Dow Jones Online Intern, May – August 2002 Selected to take part in the Dow Jones Intern­ship pro­gram. Duties included design­ing Web pages for var­i­ous spe­cial sec­tions, build­ing online data­bases, edit­ing copy, post­ing news to the site and cov­er­ing overnight crime news as a reporter.

Education

Uni­ver­sity of Mis­souri, School of Journalism

• Master’s in Media Man­age­ment, August 2003
• Bachelor’s of Jour­nal­ism, Decem­ber 2001

Skills

• Tech­nol­ogy: Python, Django, MySQL, Mem­cached, Gear­man, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Word­PressMU, Ruby, Rails
• Other: Scrum, Kanban/Lean

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