Joshua James Wayne
joshuajwayne@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-james-wayne/

Summary

Highly skilled Full Stack Web Developer and Cloud Hosting System Administrator with 10+ years of experience leading development and marketing teams in fast-paced environments. Proven ability to train and mentor team members, create secure hosting solutions, and deliver successful digital projects for diverse industries, including Medical, Dental, Legal, and Entertainment.

Experience

Firm Media Inc, Ontario CA

Head of Technical Innovation

Aug 2019 – Present

• Oversee on-premise IT systems and support remote workforce.
• Create and maintain secure and resilient hosting environments for client-facing and internal assets.
• Advise the Development Team.
• Provide training to allow customer-facing employees to navigate technical communications with Firm Media Clients.
• Advise and collaborate with clients and 3rd parties contracted by our clients in designing and maintaining secure hosting environments and digital assets.
• Review and make choices for the Software and equipment that is used by our team.
• Admin Google Workspace.
• Monitor and secure all hosted assets.
• Advice sales team on technical solutions for new clients.
• Create and manage scripts on hosted environments and in AWS systems manager to manage updates, systems patches, and build reports.
• Manage DNS for Clients.
• Developing solutions to migrate new clients assets into Custom WordPress environments.
• Consulting clients on how to gain ownership and control of their domain names, and web-related data.
• Oversee the Accessibility remediation solutions.

Lead Developer

Sep 2015 – Aug 2019

• Hire and Train front-end Developers.
• Build and maintain WordPress starter templates used by the development and PPC team members.
• Build systems, themes, and plugins for the Development team to utilize in their daily work.
• Facilitate department and cross-department meetings.
• Collaborate with Creative director and design team

Developer

Mar 2012 – Sep 2015

• Design assets for Client and Internal projects.
• Assists Creative director in converting web-designs into responsive websites.
• Build custom CMS solutions for customers with WordPress, and PHP.
• Ensuring consistent Branding across digital and traditional marketing assets.

Ionic Media, Encino CA

Web developer

Jun 2010 – Feb 2012

• Design and Develop websites, microsites, Ads, PPC landing pages, and traditional marketing assets.
• Build Facebook applets, Brand Social Media Accounts, webmaster and development on large Magento e-commerce platforms.

Education

• LA Community College 2011
• Canyon High School 1995 – 1999

Projects

Medical/Dental

• FMBuildr (WordPress starter template)
• FM Managed Hosting: AWS Multi AZ outscaling environment
• firm-media.com
• *see https://firm-media.com/our-work/ for some recent examples

Entertainment

• Disney on Ice: Visual advertising assets, Micro-sites
• Feld Entertainment: Visual advertising assets, Micro-sites
• Ringling Brother: Visual advertising assets, Micro-sites

E-Commerce

• Light Bulb City: High traffic Magento website with national marketing campaign.
• Joby Nails: High traffic Magento website and Social media marketing applications design digital advertising assets for Google Ad campaigns

Financial

• Charles Schwab: National Lead generation and PPC Micro sites

Non-Profit

• Eat and Be Well: Design and development of traditional and digital marketing materials for annual events.
• Operation Devolver: websites to promote outreach and facilitate donations for events.

Skills

• PHP, HTML, SCSS, Git, NPM, GulpJs, Javascript, JQuery, VueJS, NextJS, WordPress Development, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Workspace Admin, AWS Linux, Ubuntu, Apache, Nginx MySQL, Bash/Shell, Python
• CMS Platforms: WordPress, Magento, Shopify, Strapy
• Hosting Platforms: Digital Ocean, AWS, Godaddy, WPEngine, NameCheap, CPanel, Plesk