Jason Smith
Chief User Experience Officer at dotCMS
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJason Smith is a product-focused design and engineering leader with 14+ years shaping enterprise software experiences as co-founder and Chief User Experience Officer at dotCMS. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS) with strategic UX leadership to turn complex content-management workflows into intuitive tools used by enterprises. Jason has led cross-functional design, research, and product teams since dotCMS’s early days and previously ran professional services and creative teams at Dotmarketing. Based in Mount Pleasant, SC, he brings a rare mix of studio-art sensitivity and computer-science rigor from the College of Charleston. Notably, he contributes directly to the open-source dotCMS core—improving both UI and backend CMS functionality—so his leadership remains intimately connected to the product codebase.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at College of Charleston
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Github Skills (16)
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
content-management10
java9
jsp9
jspx9
css9
javas9
html6
fonts6
antialiasing6
dotcms6
google-chrome6
backgrounds6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotCMS/core
May 2012 - Dec 2016
Headless/Hybrid Content Management System for Enterprises
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the dotCMS core repository by implementing and modifying features in both the front-end (JSP, CSS, JavaScript) and back-end (Java). They worked on improving the user interface of the CMS, including adding features to portlets, and improving the styling. They also worked on core functionality such as the content management system and the template designer. The user's commits indicate a focus on building a usable and functional enterprise CMS.
cmsmanagement-systemdotcmsphpdxp
fishsmith/headlesscms.org
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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