About
Lindsay Brown is a millennial software developer and product manager who ran for the US House of Representatives (a.k.a. Congress) in the 2018 Republican primary in New Jersey's 7th district, ammassing nearly 15% of the vote while raising and spending only $5,000, while continuing to work her day job full-time. Lindsay is a leader for women and young people who wish to see a more diverse-looking Republican party to complement the party's acceptance of diverse ideologies.
Lindsay grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY for her bachelors in Psychology. Graduating in 2010 at the height of the 2008 Recession, Lindsay built her career from part-time administrative roles and climbed the ranks to lead digital projects and software development efforts at Townsquare Media, the New York Post, Impact XM, and Thinx.
Lindsay is a full-stack web developer with strong familiarity of the MERN stack, SQL databases, and AWS architecture. During her political campaign of 2018, Lindsay utilized the NJ voter rolls to develop her own open source canvassing app, utilizing the Google Maps API and the Data Science Toolkit library. Lindsay is a fan of clean, well-commented code and enjoys fiddling with CSS to perfect frontend UI and UX components.
Lindsay is Mom to Hanna and Food Lady to 3 dogs, 4 cats, and a flock of chickens with future ambitions for sheep, ducks, alpaca, and miniature donkeys in the mix. In her wealth of spare time, Lindsay can be found fooling around on the tractor or digging in the dirt, trying to fix more than she breaks working on home improvement projects, or crocheting in front of the TV. When the occasion arises, Lindsay fosters dogs and neonatal kittens. Her personal Instagram feed is 99% composed of the permanent and temporary furry residents of her home.
Lindsay and her husband Andrew, a pharmacist who specializes in quality and operations in the Pharma industry, own a home on 4 acres and a barn in Sussex County, New Jersey.
Work
Web Development Portfolio
Work Experience
Thinx — Technical Product Manager, Digital Product
January 2021 - Present
- Manage product roadmap for 45+ releases/year with a focus on resource planning, site performance, and customer experience.
- Manage a team of 8 engineers, reporting to Director of Digital Product, resulting in a successful site relaunch, including delivery of quality product within budget and schedule.
- Liaised with UX, Marketing, Brand, and Creative departments to coordinate necessary information and assets for engineers, resulting in a project that launched on time and on budget.
- Managed a full site redesign and migration from Shopify to headless architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams and coordinating consultants, to complete the project on-time and on budget.
- Migrated project planning resources from Asana to Jira, resulting in improved visibility and better collaboration with the engineering team and stakeholders.
Impact XM — Technical Project Manager
June 2018 - September 2020- Oversaw internal enterprise business systems and software development, setting the development calendar and determining upgrades and new features for the new ERP system.
- Coordinated three independent vendors for the development of a software system by leveraging the capabilities of each vendor, and by ensuring the quality of the product.
- Created and led the implementation of reporting solutions and dashboards to improve internal service efficiency, client service, and visibility of revenue and costs.
- Troubleshot and fixed system errors, resulting in 5% reduction in system downtime.
New York Post — Project Manager
June 2016 - November 2017- Managed the development and maintenance of all digital products under the New York Post brand including website, handheld apps, and subscription-based tablet apps by coordinating with internal stakeholders and external development agencies.
- Managed the customer support team for subscription-based tablet apps and reduced the team’s backlog by 50% while increasing customer satisfaction scores by 20%.
- Reduced time-to-market for new features and bug fixes by tracking progress of tickets in Jira, performing extensive QA, and communicating daily with developers.
Townsquare Media — Project Manager
December 2013 - June 2016- Managed 60 Digital Managing Editors in 66 local radio markets nationwide, providing operational support, and ensuring compliance and accountability of weekly projects
- Trained Digital Managing Editors on WordPress, Google Sheets, and Google Analytics
- Established and distributed annual digital metric-based goals to analyze YoY website unique visitors, email databases (SailThru), and video performance (YouTube MCN analytics)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University — Teaching Assistant, Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp
March 2018 - May 2018
Townsquare Media — Administrative Assistant
March 2013 - December 2016
Edward Jones — Branch Office Administrator
April 2012 - March 2013
Synergy NYC — Agency Operations & Executive Assistant
January 2011 – September 2011Education
Rutgers University — Full Stack Web Development Program
November 2017 - February 2018
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs — Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
September 2006 - May 2010
Technical Skills
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Materialize, NodeJS, Express, MySQL, MongoDB, Express, HandlebarsJS, Git, GitHub, APIs, JSON, REST, AJAX & ReactJS
Press
Jersey Matters, 2017
Paste Magazine, 2017
Medium, 2017
The New York Times, 2017
Salute Magazine, 2017
New York Magazine: The Cut, 2018
Insider New Jersey, 2018
WMAU 88.5, 2018
Yahoo News, 2018
Bustle, 2018
MSNBC, 2018
The Pink Waves, documentary, 2018
NJ Spotlight, 2018
NJTV, 2018
MarketWatch, 2018
Village Green NJ, 2018
US News and World Report, 2018
WHYY, 2018
Marie Claire, 2018
Racked, 2018
RealClear Life, 2018
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