Michael Fienen
Director Of Web Development at Aquent
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fienen is a Director of Web Development with 13+ years building and leading remote teams to deliver multi-site, user-focused web platforms, currently managing an international 16-site network at Aquent. He pairs hands-on expertise in dotCMS, Velocity, PHP, MySQL, accessibility, and analytics with product-minded leadership—mentoring engineers and integrating AI into marketing and development workflows. A prolific writer and speaker in higher education web strategy, he’s published extensively for .eduGuru, authored "dotCMS From the Ground Up," and has presented internationally on accessibility, mobile, and copyright. He also brings a maker’s curiosity outside work—running niche gaming sites, producing a long-running UX podcast, and having photography featured in travel guides—underscoring a blend of technical depth, communication skill, and creative practice.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Communication, Bachelor of Arts Communication at Pittsburg State UniversityGeneral Study, General Study at Independence Community College
English, Spanish, Latin
Github Skills (74)
wordpress10
updater10
podcast10
wordpress-plugin10
gutenberg9
java9
sample-data8
cms8
graphql8
eleventy8
lazy-loading8
lazyload7
dotcms7
srcset7
vanilla-javascript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fienen/wp-zerofour
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:53 commits in 26 days
aquent/vt-pattern-library
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:189 reviews, 133 PRs, 155 pushes in 8 months
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