Teams at Highlights for Children, Inc.

Leads a software support team responsible for production reliability, defect triage, code maintenance, deployments, vulnerability remediation, testing, and operational response. Develops and reviews code, coordinates Agile delivery, monitors production concerns, communicates risks, and partners with engineering, infrastructure, IT, QA, product, and customer experience teams to maintain secure, supportable digital learning applications.

Leads the visual direction and design of multiple children’s magazines, partnering with editorial to develop visual storytelling and manage illustration assignments, photo shoots, layouts, and production workflows. Oversees creative consistency across publications, mentors design staff, manages freelancers and artists, and balances multiple deadlines in a fast-paced publishing environment.

Designs, deploys, secures, automates, and operates Azure and Microsoft Fabric data platform services. Builds data-movement pipelines, integrations, infrastructure-as-code modules, and CI/CD processes; configures networking, identity, secrets, monitoring, governance, and hybrid connectivity. Partners with data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and application teams to support reliable enterprise data workloads. Troubleshoots platform and integration issues, participates in incident response and recovery planning, and maintains architecture documentation and operational runbooks.