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Joseph Miller

@milleriiijosephl

Full Stack Engineer at Lee Enterprises’ Blox Digital, building NXT, a news CMS used daily by ~500 media organizations.

At Lee Enterprises’ Blox Digital, I was the first of three founding engineers on NXT, the next-generation news CMS. I established its React and TypeScript front-end architecture, and the platform became the daily publishing system for ~500 media organizations while still in beta.

I own four NXT subsystems end to end: Inline Assets, Import/Export, Notifications, and the AP Style Guide Checker. I also co-lead platform search, including filtering and saved custom queries, and help set component architecture, TypeScript conventions, and code-review standards as the product organization has grown.

Before Blox Digital, I advanced through four roles at Deere & Company, including serving as a dedicated IT advisor to its senior-most business leadership. As Product Owner and Scrum Master, I coordinated projects and replaced manual asset tracking with automation that eliminated 60 hours of monthly work. I also run TechJunkie, LLC, providing WordPress and WooCommerce development and managed infrastructure services.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Full Stack Engineer

Current

Lee Enterprises - Blox Digital

Dec 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Founding front-end engineer on NXT, a next-generation CMS, with end-to-end ownership of four core subsystems and co-leadership of platform search. Scaled the platform to serve ~500 media organizations daily while in beta.

Current

Founder & Principal Consultant

Current

TechJunkie, LLC

Nov 2015 - Present (10 years 11 months)

Independent IT and web consultancy providing development and managed infrastructure services to small-business clients. Designs and deploys WordPress and WooCommerce sites on PHP/MySQL, and administers Linux and NGINX hosting environments.

WordPress WooCommerce PHP MySQL Linux Nginx DNS SSL Backup Recovery

WordPress Developer

Little Rhino (Built Mighty)

Jul 2021 - May 2022 (10 months)

Restored compromised client sites without data loss through malware remediation, performance optimization, and staging, backup, and restore operations. Managed change control through GitHub and produced engagement time estimates.

WordPress WooCommerce PHP MySQL GitHub Malware Remediation Performance Optimization Staging Backup Restores Change Control Estimation

ITI / Executive Support

Deere & Company

Feb 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 10 months)

Served as dedicated IT advisor to Deere's top business leadership team, delivering white-glove support. Ran delivery as Product Owner and Scrum Master, and automated asset tracking, eliminating 60 hours of manual work per month.

Product Ownership Scrum Agile Automation Asset Tracking Hardware Deployments Cloud Collaboration IT Audit Security Compliance

Information Technology Analyst

Deere & Company

Nov 2014 - Feb 2017 (2 years 3 months)

Modernized legacy systems including AS/400, RPG IV, Strategi HSM, and Zend Server, producing repeatable implementation processes and documentation adopted across the team.

AS 400 RPG IV HSM Strategy Zend Server Legacy Systems Documentation

Infrastructure Analyst

Deere & Company

Jan 2009 - Nov 2014 (5 years 10 months)

Sustained 24x7 operational support and outage escalation across mainframe, network, and distributed server environments. Held Team Lead shift coverage for a 20+ person team and maintained departmental applications.