Tony Alves
Senior Vice President, Product Management At HighWire at HighWire Press, Inc.
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Alves is a product executive with three decades of publishing and scholarly-communications experience who now serves as Senior Vice President of Product Management at HighWire. He led product strategy and teams at Aries Systems for nearly two decades, launching and evolving flagship editorial platforms (Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager) while driving business development and market strategy. Tony pairs editorial judgment—he built physician-led teams and helped launch one of the first online CME forums and an ACCME-accredited program—with hands-on product design and rollout experience. Unusually for a senior leader, he also contributes code to open-source projects like decap-cms, modernizing build outputs and front/back-end compatibility. Based in Huntington Beach, he blends English and business training to translate complex editorial workflows into practical, scalable product solutions.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at Johnson & Wales UniversityUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (25)
webpack310
git10
cms10
javascript10
back-end-development10
webpack510
webpack-310
webpack10
javascripts10
webpack-510
webpack410
front-end-development10
webpacker10
webpack-410
netlify-cms10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
decaporg/decap-cms
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 26 commits, 45 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the Netlify CMS project by modifying both frontend and backend code. They addressed issues such as removing IE11 support and fixing entry saved messages, impacting the user experience. The user also implemented new features, like allowing configuration file loading to be skipped and refactoring the build output to be compatible with UMD and ESM. They updated various packages to ensure compatibility with registerBackend and refine export implementations.
cmsreactstatic-sitenetlify-cmsnpm-package
talves/netlify-cra-env-vars
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Simple example of Environment Variables in a Create React App on Netlify
Contributions:10 commits, 22 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years
environment-variablesreactcreate-reactcreate-react-anetlify
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