Chris Heisel

Chris Heisel

Agile leader, Python developer, experience with human and systems scaling

Location
Greater Atlanta Area
Industry
Internet

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Chris Heisel's Overview

Current
  • Director, Software at Cox Media Group Digital
Past
Education
  • University of Missouri -- Columbia
  • University of Missouri -- Columbia
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Chris Heisel's Summary

Led teams both small and large, tackling large scale Python and Django projects.

I'm most at home taking a big vision and turning it into reality by a focus on execution. My teams are focused on measuring and improving our performance; operating as a learning organization and committed to continuous value delivery.

Specialties

python, django, javascript, project management, scrum, kanban, wordpress, html, css

Chris Heisel's Experience

Director, Software

Cox Media Group Digital

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry

May 2011Present (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for a team of ~30 developers and 4 managers. Manage relationships with QA, operations, product and project management. Organize and help hold cross-functional teams accountable for speed and quality.

Senior Manager, Software Development

Cox Media Group digital

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry

April 2010May 2011 (1 year 2 months)

Technical Project Manager

Lincoln Loop, LLC

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry

October 2009April 2010 (7 months)

Oversaw active projects and facilitated communication between clients and developers/engineers. Set budget and timeline expectations on new client requests, managed project budgets, ran weekly staff meeting, created and managed sprint task lists and backlogs. Quality assurance duties included testing items as completed by developers and maintaining our continuous integration server. Both clients and project teams were remote, spread across several timezones.

Online Development Manager

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry

January 2007October 2009 (2 years 10 months)

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 ajc.com / accessatlanta.com

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry

July 2005January 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry

August 2003July 2005 (2 years)

Worked on a variety of projects, large and small, inward and outward facing.

Project involvement varied among full-stack development and deployment, implementaton, design, and just consulting.

Chris Heisel's Education

University of Missouri -- Columbia

Master's, Media management

January 2002December 2003

University of Missouri -- Columbia

Bachelor's of Journalism, News editing, News design

August 1997December 2001

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