Seth Carstens

Professional Summary

Best described as a technology executive, with over 20 years of professional experiences managing Technology and Software Development ranging from start-ups to multinational enterprises. Previously, he was the Director of Technology for Meredith Corporation where he both coded and lead a team of 20+ engineers through the process of building a modernized content creation studio. That product, code name OneCMS, provided over 800+ professional writers with the tools to create content which attracted 180 million visitors per month to digital properties like AllRecipes.com and People.com. He also has a broad business background including sales, insurance, franchising, and he has navigated through 6 M&A deals including the sale of FanSided Inc to Sports Illustrated, A Time Inc company. Seth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Associates degree in Communications, graduating with Cum Lade honors from the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Experience:
Full scale enterprise technology cloud solutions and microservices around Content Management Systems. I currently manage engineering and development teams, train them on software development standards and architect CI / CD pipelines. I recruit and train junior developers into senior developers. I understand, architect solutions, and help manage all aspects of technology for our teams including enterprise hosting, tech support, SaaS relationships and products, all 3rd party API’s, and continuous business strategy with company leadership.

Management (8+ years), Training (9+ years), AWS (5+ years), JIRA (5+ Years), HTML & HTML5 (20+ years), CSS & CSS3 (18+ Years) , PHP (14+ Years), JavaScript & jQuery (12+ Years), JSON & XML (5+ years), REST / SOAP (8+ Years).

Specialties: AWS, Management, Leadership, Enterprise, WordPress, technology, management, scrum, kanban, agile, training, recruiting, team culture, technical documentation, Product Management, Project Management, digital transformation, data migration, PHP, API, websites, applications, marketing, sales, budgeting, ROI, branding, KPIs & entrepreneurship.

Goals: Managing technology teams and assets, in a scalable fast growth environments. Increasing team productivity through leadership, motivation and company culture. Contributing to the company’s revenues by reducing technology overhead, cutting out unneeded technologies, embracing better workflows, and building new and efficient technologies that scale.

Autobiography

The Short Story Of Seth’s Leadership Life Born in the small town of Navado, California, I was brought to the earth at 9 pounds 11 ounces. Shortly after my second birthday I was moved to Arizona. I bounced around different parts of the technology world until I found that I have a unique talent in Web Development, Digital Marketing, and internet application services. I now spend my days as a web developer and my weekends as a golfer and father.

 

Seth’s Vision

Many people are uncomfortable with new technology, but we are starting to breach the learning gap in all generations. Coming into the information age, I want to make technologies “work for people” instead of people “working at technology”. I’m an efficiency nut and I use website development and online services to automate things that used to be tedious and cumbersome.