Currently living, working, and playing in Manhattan.

Still have roots in Upstate New York.

Eager for life.

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Deven Edward Pitcher

EDUCATION:

Syracuse University:
M.S. in Information Management 2015
Computer Science Masters Candidate 2010-2012
State University of New York at Oswego
B.S. in Cognitive Science 2010

EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager – Carnegie Hall Corp. NYC
August 2015 – Current
• Manage a team of internal and external developers, oversee weekly builds and deployments of web site and ticket sales system.
• Project owner for an education portal of interactive games and curriculum for students and teachers.
• Project lead on high profile, large volume traffic ticket sales: events such as J.K.Rowling and the David Bowie Tribute concert.
• Balancing user demand with server stress using digital queue waiting rooms.
• Organize project requirements and create documentation in Confluence with linked Jira epics and tickets to track progress and assign work.
• Team oriented code review, git commits, merge, and branch management.
• Established effective relationships with stakeholders through out the entire organization, fund raising, ticketing, arts programming, education, archives, and marketing.
• Presented on Cyber Security and Penetration Testing for non profit arts institutions at TLCC2016.

Web Specialist: Syracuse University, New York
October 2011 – August 2015
• Server administration, programming, and technical analysis for Syracuse University: Marketing and Communications department developing product lines for the universities web presence.
• Lead effort to modernize existing properties and migrate to a new server architecture.
• Organized and presented at Web Retreat 2013, a day long conference for managers, developers, and content editors to discuss Syracuse University's web presence. Link
• Presented at Cascade Server Conference 2014 on Data Modeling Link
• Earned a H.I.P.T.A achievement award as the team leader of a Developer and Designers product group.

Research Assistant: Anchorage, Alaska 2011
• Assisted Doctoral Candidate Laura Tuck of Pacific University School of Professional Psychology
• Edited dissertation for clarity and scientific merit, running statistical calculations on psychological experiments.

SKILLS:

• PHP • JavaScript • SQL • HTML5 • CSS3 • .NET • JIRA • Confluence • Bamboo • Git • Photoshop • Analytics • Responsive Design • Media Queries • Linux • OSX • Windows • Android • iOS • WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Standards • Project Management • Agile
• Front End • Full Stack

LinkedIn I work as a Technical Project Manager in the department of IT and New Media, at Carnegie Hall in NYC, NY.

I am a project manager who codes and commits, firmly believes a well merged repo is a happy repo.

How do you know your code is working?