Marvin Mitchell

Visionary IT change agent with 12+ years in the web / internet technology industry, including experience in the areas of tech team management, project management ,front-end & back-end web technology development, uxd and creative.

5+ years experience managing and leading multi-global teams in US, Europe, Latin America and India.

Command of strategic leadership skills necessary to craft, manage, and deliver ,internet strategy for brands and platforms.

Subject matter expert in internet best practices, web standards, development tools, and emerging technologies.

Hands on expertise in core internet technologies: Javascript, LAMP stack, XHTML, CSS, JSON, XML, Flash.

Dedicated to training, mentoring, and empowering knowledge workers to collaborate at their most optimum efficiency.

Consistency managing and delivering multiple projects on time and on budget with a high amount of transparency and accountability.

Passionate technologist , energized by the challenge to scale today's technical boundaries and stretch the limits of tomorrow's

Agile Development Methodologies, SCRUM, RUP, SDLC, Spiral, XP, Procurement, Staffing, Project and Product Management, Web Standards Compliance, Web 2.0 design and development techniques, UX and usability design and testing, Collective Intelligence, Semantic web, Analytics, Omniture. Javascript ( core and libraries), XHTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, PHP, JSP, Java, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, TCL.

Oversee and manage all aspects of the in-house web development and technology. From requirement capture to post-production refactoring and improvements.

Manage the development workflow and day to day technical deliverables across eCommerce brands FAO.com, Toysrus.com, Babiesrus.com, Etoys.com, BabyUniverse.com and other company web and email properties

Act as main technical knowledge resource to marketing, e-commerce, global platforms and other divisions in areas including but not limited to internet technology, SEO, performance, mobile and emerging technologies, agile methodologies, technical standards , design patterns, and developer tools and technique

Manage the relationship between technical teams, creative, marketing and brand divisions

Act as liaison with best in class outside agencies and vendors.

Review RFPs and provide recommendations.
Review and approve project budgets.

Created, staffed and managed multi-million dollar front end development department with core staff of 8 full time core web technologist (nyc), 7 full time contractors (nyc), and 10 full time developers based at company office in (Bangalore India).

Drafted and Implemented development method, code review process, javascript architecture, and developer training program that allowed staff to break all traffic records for pre-existing programming packages.

Managed successful redesigns and standards for next generation sites for AOL entertainment cutting time to develop packages from 2 months to 3 weeks.

Developed and executed program to bring rich media and modern web 2.0 interfaces to AOL entertainment sites.

Innovated by bringing emerging technologies like adobe flex, microformats and javascript libraries to the company's fleet of properties.

Vocal representative on company working groups to determine corporate technical strategy in emerging areas including widgets/distributed content, iphone development, facebook applications, and open source initiatives.

Provided daily status, resource allocation, and technical management for over 13 sites with simultaneous projects for seven departments - Living, Black Voices, Latino, Games/Video Games/Casual Games, Movies/Moviefone, Television, Music. A combined traffic total of over 900 million views a month.

Collaborated with design team, product team, project team, ad sales, and general managers of departments to capture, refine, and meet site, blog and project requirements.

Built Web Applications and APIs using a combination of front end, backend and database languages in a modular manner allowing for easier and faster maintenance. Built interactive javascript components on sites boosting end user engagement and interactivity. Improved performance of aol music, casual games and video games sites allowing sites to deliver content to the users 70% faster.

Worked with ad dev/sales team to deliver sponsored packages totaling over $300 million.

Designed, developed, troubleshot, debugged, and documented content management tools based on business requirements and channel needs. Created web page packages with over 250 million page views.

Conveyed fundamental aspects of web technologies through verbal and written communications training other developers in workshops and creating wiki pages to institutionalize developer knowledge.

Clients include: MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Getty Images, Nothing Records/NIN
Designed client websites, company website, intranet, and online help desk increasing market share 300%. Design client templates attributed with attracting over 30K in sales. Custom client re-designs lauded by clients for ability to clear clutter, focus message and enhance beauty of existing content.

Created development methodology and project delivery process based on extreme programming and rational unified process.

Created bi-quarterly marketing strategy and promotional feasibility studies for marketing team targeted on building brand awareness and increasing sales. Studies were drafted by aggregating independent industry research, web stat log drill downs, and statistical analysis to create concise and persuasive reports.

Credited with improving quality of work company wide through in-house trainings on myriad issues including: color theory and design, the business intelligence behind domain registration and naming, the power of branding, leveraging server side technology in your interfaces, and design v art: increased functionality through beauty and usability.

Acted as creative surrogate for company vision and business goals, using training as both a graphic designer and a programmer to launch bleeding edge, target marketed, and intuitive internet applications and websites of ZD company titles (including CIOINSIGHT, EXTREME TECH, PC MAGAZINE, SMART BUSINESS, INTERACTIVE WEEK, FAMILYPC, THE NET ECONOMY, EWEEK) on extremely aggressive schedule.

Hand picked by department director to act in her absence on mission critical projects . Contributed to meetings determining creative and marketing direction of online entities. Liaisoned between marketing department, sales, design team and senior executives creating creative briefs and mockups of proposed and agreed upon final concepts.

Leader and director of global front end interface team composed of over 30 developers and graphic designers based in 4 countries between 5 international offices.
Interpreted Rational Unified Process compliant use cases, type diagrams and functional design patterns to craft usable and scalable GUI solutions that seamlessly wrapped n-tier architecture for kiosk, web applications, company website and client projects.

Leveraged industry experience and technical writing skills to create white papers highlighting best practices in design, architecture, interface conception, translation, and implementation.

Created dynamic online focus group and workshop data collection application to automate the process of market data collection shaving off as much as a month off the timeline of some projects.

Provided research for project managers regarding emerging technologies and their potential uses for clients

Conceptualized, drafted, and architected n-tier application models into fully
functional web based dynamic data retrieval and manipulation systems which included server security, information encryption, password protection and maintenance of a database of over eight hundred thousand entries. All code specification compliant, scalable and modular, 100% portable across all existing systems and platforms preserving a constant look, feel and intuitive end-user interface.

Created internet application that allowed the Department of Health to receive Y2K compliance and readiness information instantly from the hospitals of New York State.

Supported various complete application design teams that included marketing, graphic design, programmers, administration and assistants in the development, design, and launch of various projects.

Implemented mission critical technology solutions for fortune 500 clients including Merril Lynch, Prudential, and IBM.

English Native Speaker.
Spanish Conversational.

2005 Accountability Award
2007 Usability Award

2008 SCRUM Master (rally software)
Authorized to work in the United States, The United Kingdom, and the European Union.

Managing within the law
Working with indian nationals
Web 2.0 design and development
Internet SEO and Performance Optimization
Orielly Web 2.0 Conference 2007,2008

PROGRAMMING: XHTML/HTML , Javascript programming, Javascript Libraries - Jquery, Mootools, Prototype etc, AJAX, Dom scripting /DHTML programming, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 3, PHP, JSP, Actionscript 3, MYSQL, RSS, Media RSS, XML, JSON, XSLT, SQL, ASP, .NET, IIS, WML, TCL, ADP, Lingo, Flash, Shockwave.
Data / Database: MySQL,Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Lite, Access . Foxpro.

GRAPHIC DESIGN : Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator CS, Quark Xpress, Adobe PageMaker, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Fireworks.
Multimedia: Actionscript 3 / AS3, Adobe Flash, Adobe / Macromedia Director, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Flex

DEVELOPMENT IDE: Coda, Eclipse, Netbeans, Adobe HomeSite+, Notepad, Typepad, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Macromedia Director, Bare Bones Edit, Allaire Coldfusion studio, Macromedia Flash , Microsoft Frontpage , Drupal, Joomla

Internet Browsers / DOMs: Chrome, Mozilla, Firefox, Internet Explorer 5 - 8, Navigator, Mosiac, AOL Client, Opera, Gecko & Trident based browsers.

Platforms / Operating Systems: OS X, Windows, Linux, Iphone, Ipad, Mobile devices.

NETWORKS / NETWORK ADMINISTRATION: Tomcat, Apache, Microsoft 2003 Server, Microsoft IIS, Linux Mandrake, OS X s
Methodologies / Process: Scrum, EXteme Programming, Microsoft SDLC Process, Rational Unified Process, Unified Modeling Language compliant processes, Agile Manifesto derived processes, Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Fusebox

SOURCE CONTROL: CVS, SVN, RCS, Microsoft SourceSafe, RDBS.

OTHER SKILLS: Omniture, Comscore, Google analytics, Tacoda, Quigo, GSI CMS, ACT!, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Visio, WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat, Telnet, E-mail, Ftp - command , hardware and software configuration, internet security