Greg Schnippel
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Greg Schnippel

Greg Schnippel

Lead Technical Architect

Spanish, Russian

Background


About

About

Accomplished technical architect, problem solver, and leader with over 15 years experience in building and managing websites, ranging in scale from small citizen sector organizations to large federal agencies and Fortune 500 businesses. Recognized by colleagues as a strong communicator, able to translate complex technical topics for varying audiences as training documentation, technical plans, or business proposals. Highly skilled open-source, LAMP stack developer with expertise in Drupal and Wordpress but with a demonstrated ability to pickup new technologies quickly, deliver projects on short timeframes, and train colleagues.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Lead Technical Architect, U.Group / Agency Chief

    Oct, 2017 - Nov, 20214 years 2 months

    Managed growing back-end and web-ops team for a digital agency with a focus on non-profits and enterprise-scale government contracts. Created an updated best-practice development workflow and built new systems for knowledge capture and training.

    • Lead developer teams and wrote technical architecture plans for over a dozen successful web redesign and migration projects, including four to help federal agencies rebuild their web presence

    • Sole developer on three projects for high-profile clients that required learning a new technology and using it to deliver results in a short timeframe

    • Assisted in the writing, planning, and final interviews for multiple, successful, multi-year contract proposals, designated as the principal technical lead.

  • Chief Drupal Architect, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

    May, 2015 - Oct, 20172 years 5 months

    Led a two-year effort with a distributed team of developers and multiple internal stakeholders to rebuild Ashoka's web presence and consolidate messaging across 75+ country and program websites in over 10 languages. Completed entire Drupal build in-house and implemented best practice server architecture, cutting-edge front-end optimization strategies, and custom-built integration with Salesforce.

  • Technical Account Manager, Acquia

    Oct, 2013 - May, 20151 year 7 months

    Successfully managed portfolio of 11 elite clients including two of the firm’s biggest and most high-profile accounts. Provided technical and strategic advice to clients working to launch new sites or managing existing server infrastructure. Trained clients on industry best practices and conducted periodic scans and technical audits to improve their performance based on their goals.

  • Director of Production, Taoti Creative

    Oct, 2012 - Oct, 20131 year

    Lead development and production team of developers to design and develop Drupal and Wordpress web sites. Introduced and trained team on industry best practices for version control and software development, helping to turn around and deliver a number of struggling projects.

  • Senior Drupal Developer, Office of Digital Strategies, White House

    Aug, 2010 - Jul, 20121 year 11 months

    Full-time, on-site web developer for the Office of Digital Strategies at the White House. Worked on custom applications to communicate the President's message in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment. Helped redesign and implement large-scale upgrades to existing sections of the web site and sole developer for several web applications that became the most visited content on the web site.

  • Project Lead, The QED Group

    Sep, 2009 - Aug, 201011 months

  • Web Developer, Campaign for America's Future

    Aug, 2008 - Aug, 20091 year

  • Associate Director, ITI, Ashoka

    Aug, 2008 - Jul, 20062 years

  • Policy Analyst, SAIC

    Jun, 2005 - Jul, 20061 year 1 month

Skills

Skills

  • Drupal / Wordpress CMS

    Drupal 7/8/9 and Wordpress

    Module & Plugin Development

    Troubleshooting / xDebug

    API Services / XML, JSON

    Composer / Symfony 5 / Laravel

    Security / Performance / SEO Optimization

  • System Administration / WebOps

    Linux / Ubuntu / RedHat

    Perl / Bash / Sh scripting

    Mysql / CouchDB

    Apache SOLR Setup / Elasticsearch

    Redis / Memcache

    Github / Continuous Integration / BDD & Behat

    Docker / Lando

    Pantheon / Acquia Cloud platforms

  • Full-Stack Web Development

    HTML 5 / CSS3 / SMACSS

    Gulp / Grunt / NPM / Webpack

    USWDS / Bootstrap / Zurb Foundation

    Javascript / jQuery / NodeJS

    Pattern Library / Component Based Design

Education

Education

  • MA in International Economics, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins

    Aug, 2003 - Jun, 2005

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Volunteer Web Developer, Taproot Foundation

    Jan, 2013 - Aug, 2016

    Successfully completed three, six-month long engagements with a team of other volunteers to do a full site redesign for D.C. area non-profits working in education and homelessness.

  • Volunteer Co-director, Loaves and Fishes DC

    Jun, 1999 - Aug, 2015

    Co-director for Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen in Columbia Heights. Managed and trained teams of 30+ volunteers and 4-5 permanent staff each weekend to prepare and serve a meal to 300+ homeless individuals.