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Hi, I'm Ryan J. Smith, a Portland, Maine-based web professional with a passion for dogs, camping, grilling, gardening, film and video production, poker, aviation, electronics, charts, and a love for great coffee. Proud father of two, I've been building and maintaining websites since 1996, balancing client work and independent projects with a focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design. As Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio since 2015, I lead planning, configuration and maintenance of client websites, improve server-side tooling, and help clients succeed with technical SEO and scalable hosting environments.…Hi, I'm Ryan J. Smith, a Portland, Maine-based web professional with a passion for dogs, camping, grilling, gardening, film and video production, poker, aviation, electronics, charts, and a love for great coffee. Proud father of two, I've been building and maintaining websites since 1996, balancing client work and independent projects with a focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design. As Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio since 2015, I lead planning, configuration and maintenance of client websites, improve server-side tooling, and help clients succeed with technical SEO and scalable hosting environments.

Ryan J. Smith

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Hi, I'm Ryan J. Smith, a Portland, Maine-based web professional with a passion for dogs, camping, grilling, gardening, film and video production, poker, aviation, electronics, charts, and a love for great coffee. Proud father of two, I've been building and maintaining websites since 1996, balancing client work and independent projects with a focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design. As Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio since 2015, I lead planning, configuration and maintenance of client websites, improve server-side tooling, and help clients succeed with technical SEO and scalable hosting environments.…Hi, I'm Ryan J. Smith, a Portland, Maine-based web professional with a passion for dogs, camping, grilling, gardening, film and video production, poker, aviation, electronics, charts, and a love for great coffee. Proud father of two, I've been building and maintaining websites since 1996, balancing client work and independent projects with a focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design. As Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio since 2015, I lead planning, configuration and maintenance of client websites, improve server-side tooling, and help clients succeed with technical SEO and scalable hosting environments.

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Hi, I’m Ryan J. Smith, a Portland, Maine-based web professional with a passion for dogs, camping, grilling, gardening, film and video production, poker, aviation, electronics, charts, and a love for great coffee. Proud father of two, I’ve been building and maintaining websites since 1996, balancing client work and independent projects with a focus on reliability, performance, and thoughtful design.

As Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio since 2015, I lead planning, configuration and maintenance of client websites, improve server-side tooling, and help clients succeed with technical SEO and scalable hosting environments.

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Lead Web Developer & Server Administrator at Level8 Design Studio

January 1, 2015 - Present

Plan, build, configure & maintain dozens of client websites. Maintain & expand custom PHP framework to support client requirements while maximizing code reusability. Build custom plugins as required for WordPress-based sites. Maintain, improve & document server-side toolchains for development & deployment processes. Administrate, migrate, provision & standardize variety of web hosting environments.

Technical SEO & Web Developer at Dirigo Design & Development, Inc.

January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2015

Assisted clients & internal software projects with various aspects of integrated search marketing including content strategy, social media, video optimization, site migration, information architecture, analytics and more. Performed routine & comprehensive technical SEO audits for client sites, including evidence and prioritized tactical recommendations on issues including URL canonicalization, semantic markup, duplicate content, URL redirection, bot traps & other crawlability concerns. Directly implemented SEO recommendations requiring code changes to in-house C# .NET web framework. Developed Python-based web scraper for medicare.gov.

Director, Technical Projects at Nine By Blue, Inc.

January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2012

Conducted premium-quality technical SEO assessments & deliverables for a confidential list of high-end clients. Developed and maintained custom Python- and PHP-based internal tools for SEO analysis & reporting. Co-developed and maintained automated, high-volume, multi-method data collection infrastructure for client report data available on Google Webmaster Tools. Authored detailed internal technical process documentation for client operations.

Web Developer at Third Door Media, Inc.

January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011

Shared webmaster responsibilities for several high-traffic, WordPress-driven Web properties, including content management, custom automation solutions and re-design implementation. Managed display ad traffic for all properties in Google DoubleClick for Publishers and in email newsletters. Developed conference slide video capture and Flash-based web streaming workflows for SMX conferences. Redesigned day-of-conference Web portal to improve overall usefulness, content automation and tablet UX.