Michael Fienen
Director Of Web Development at Aquent
Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
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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 (86)
wordpress10
updater10
podcast10
wordpress-plugin10
gutenberg9
java9
sample-data8
cms8
graphql8
php8
plugin8
lazy-loading8
benchmark7
lazyload7
srcset7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DrunkenUX/web-ethics-commitment
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Site source for webethicscommitment.com
Contributions:7 reviews, 49 commits, 5 PRs in 18 days
DrunkenUX/drunkenux-theme
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
WordPress theme for drunkenux.com
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 7 months
wordpresswordpress-theme
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