Douglas Ward
IT Manager at The Waters Ward Company, LLC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Ward is an experienced IT manager and CMS developer with 12+ years delivering large-scale website redesigns, integrations, and cloud infrastructure for enterprise and government clients. He has led multi-million dollar projects—overseeing a $1M+ member portal and public site rollout for an international consortium and a $2M+ WordPress redesign for Marriott—while managing Azure and Office 365 estates and complex API integrations. Equally comfortable as a hands-on developer and technical project lead, he has built and supported 20+ CMS projects across WordPress, Drupal, ColdFusion, Jekyll, and Umbraco and deployed code to AWS with CI/CD pipelines. Based in Washington, DC, he brings a blend of content-first thinking (English Literature background) and practical web engineering that helps translate design comps into secure, optimized production sites. He also moonlights as a musician, reflecting a creative streak that informs his pragmatic problem-solving and stakeholder communication.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Web Development Intermedia/Multimedia, Certificate in Web Development Intermedia/Multimedia at The George Washington UniversityMiami UniversityEnglish Literature Studies, English Literature Studies at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (8)
open-source10
javascript9
sms8
alerts8
coverage8
relay6
react6
mobile-first4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BBGInnovate/Project-Relay
Apr 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:56 commits in 1 month
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DouglasCWard/abrfstarter
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
ABRF Wayback Machine Restoration Template
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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