Stratosphere Collection

Streamlined
‍Website
Development

Project Type(s)
WordPress Websites
Role
Lead Developer

Overview

In 2014 - 2016 I worked with Stratosphere Marketing Solutions as a wordpress developer. Eventually I made my way up to lead developer in early 2015 and

Technology

We primarily built our sites on Wordpress with the Genesis framework, Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, and a handful of other plugins in addition to custom coding. Management eventually had us shift our setup over to themes from evato / Theme Forest and I left shortly after.

Role

We primarily built our sites on Wordpress with the Genesis framework, Advanced Custom Fields, Gravity Forms, and a handful of other plugins in addition to custom coding. Management eventually had us shift our setup over to themes from evato / Theme Forest and I left shortly after.

Challenges

• Outsourcing schemes which amounted to more time developers had to spend cleaning up bad code.
• Remote leadership role while 99% of the staff were in an office in Westlake CA.
‍• Large amount of sites to maintain

• Our designers however ended up
• Shift from frameworks to themes
• Administrative administrative capability on sites
• Malware cleanup incursions

WordPress

Genesys Framework

Advanced Custom Fields

Illustrator

Photoshop

Dropbox

WP Engine

Skype

Zoho

Podio

Projects

End Result

We launched a ton of sites. I helped maintain a mountain of existing sites with a skeleton crew for support.