Personal details
Megan 🐹.
Technical skills
About
I’m a web developer and community builder in the Cleveland area specializing in WordPress. My most recent role was the Head of Community at the premium WordPress freelancing platform, Codeable. I also served as a member of the global WordPress Incident Response Team and was a long-time contributor to the WordPress open source project.
I’ve been developing websites for clients since 2012, specializing in WordPress and PHP. For many years I organized and spoke at WordPress Meetups and conferences – both in the Cleveland area and across the country. For a while, I also co-hosted a WordPress podcast.
The last three years I spent managing a community of 700+ freelance web developers, helping them with client/project management, managing the education and certification programs we provided, and helping them to niche and network. During my time at Codeable, I was also responsible for interviewing and onboarding new freelancers to the platform.
I first learned to code on Neopets. 🙂
My Development Blog:
https://megabyterose.com/
WordPress Stack Exchange Account:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users/84643/
Work Experience
- Manage a community of 700+ developers, including representing their interests in meetings, platform moderation, enforcing our Code of Conduct and handling reports, and working with a cross-department team to handle incidents, warnings, and disputes.
- Oversee all official company communications to platform members. Develop and implement communication guidelines for the company. Provide staff de-escalation training as needed.
- Organize and facilitate social and educational events for our developers, both virtual and in-person.
- Manage department budget and tooling, maintain department documentation, and manage direct reports.
Accomplishments
- Contributed to the company’s Cybersecurity Handbook and spearheaded the development of our official company values.
- Defined KPIs and dashboards to measure success of the developers and the community team’s initiatives and interventions.
- Defined selection criteria, implemented systems, and wrote documentation for a variety of scenarios in which favoritism and bias had become systematized.