Brooklyn, New York • kadamwhite@gmail.com • +1.401.575.7829
Expert Enterprise WordPress Consultant, JavaScript application architect, team lead, and engineering peer coach seeks a leadership position with opportunities to establish a high quality standard for engineering and client communications, mentor an ambitious team, and expand the organization’s open-source contributions & community reputation.
Experience
Human Made
Principal Engineer, March 2020 – Present
At Human Made I lead and oversee project teams delivering top-quality WordPress consulting to enterprise companies around the world. I lead the on-time and content-complete migration of TheHill.com from Drupal to WordPress, supervised the technical modernization efforts for WikimediaFoundation.org, and built innovative cross-CMS ingest pipelines for leading American local news publishers. As a Principal I contribute to company-level technical direction and support engineering management in implementing processes and methodologies for efficiently delivering high-quality work across our client portfolio.
Senior Engineer, Sep 2017 – March 2020
As a Senior Engineer at Human Made I built an innovative new semi-headless frontend for TechCrunch.com, lead the maintenance and modernization of the WordPress platform for Snopes, and rearchitecture he product catalog integration for a global financial comparison platform, delivering a novel workflow for representing structured live product data within the block editor. I also regularly contributed to WordPress Core as a focus lead for the WordPress REST API component, took over maintenance of the Chassis Vagrant-based Enterprise WordPress development tool, and implemented and continue to maintain the block-editor-hmr build system utility for hot-reloading WordPress blocks within the editor during local development.
Bocoup
Senior Engineering Consultant, Feb 2015 – Jun 2017
At Bocoup I lead the implementation of complex, large-scale web applications for enterprise clients and fast-paced startups. As a project lead and client liaison I ensured that Bocoup consulting teams delivered specific, targeted value to our clients’ stakeholders, and partnered with client engineering management to ensure that our consulting skills were being put to best use. Specializing in front-end application architecture and data visualization, I created rich interactive data portals, built robust application prototypes, implemented and released open source development tools and resources, and embedded within client teams to teach modern JavaScript engineering best practices.
Open Web Engineer, Mar 2013 – Feb 2015
As a consulting engineer for Bocoup, a leading front-end application development consultancy, I worked with client teams to provide JavaScript expertise, front-end engineering training, and application development support for internal client development teams.
Grand Circle Corporation
Web UI Manager, May 2012 – Mar 2013
At Grand Circle Travel I lead the technical design and implementation of front-end enhancements to the company”s two flagship brand websites, www.oat.com & www.gct.com. As Web UI Manager I was responsible for maintaining the accessibility, usability, and maintainability of these websites, as well as leading the development and site-wide integration of business-critical site performance analytics using Omniture.
Lead Front-End Developer, Jan 2012 – May 2012
Web Developer, May 2011 – Jan 2012
Web Content Manager, Aug 2009 – May 2011
Goose Rock Design
Web Designer & Developer, Aug 2008 – Jun 2009
At Goose Rock Design I designed and implemented standards-conscious websites for a variety of clients in HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript, using content management systems including WordPress & CMSMS.
Freelance Digital Artist & Visual Design Consultant
Jul 2008 – Sep 2010
I created websites, 3D models, animations, vector and raster illustrations, and concept art for clients including Digital Contrast, Inc (Houston, TX) & Dejobaan Games, LLC (Cambridge, MA).
Selected Projects & Open Source
Core Committer, WordPress & Design Lead, WordPress REST API
Maintainer, node-wpapi
Education
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
A.B. East Asian Studies, May 2008. Focus on Japanese Media Arts & Culture
Kanda Institute for International Studies
IES Tokyo Summer Language Study Program, Summer 2005. Makuhari, Chiba City, Japan