Dave Roberts

Vice President of Engineering, Digital Products Division, American City Business Journals @American City Business Journals

ACBJ publishes 43 metropolitan business weeklies, including the Atlanta Business Journal, the Puget Sound (Seattle) Business Journal and the Houston Business Journal. The company’s digital content has 365,500 daily unique visitors and garners more than 60 million page views per month- Lead a 15+ member engineering in maintaining a strategic vision for ACBJ’s technologies- Create opportunities for growth through coaching and promoting members into leadership roles- Assist division in budgeting for engineering resources and infrastructure needs- Bridge gaps in division’s product management umbrella. Assist where/when needed for new, proposed or overloaded product/project needs- Help manage the adaptive process of implementing and maintaining an agile/kanban work environment- Assist cross-division leadership in assessing technology needs/requirements- Directly report to the CTO and participate in divisional decision-making processes- Code R&D projects to assess viability before handing to Product/Engineering. Recent Accomplishments - Managing ongoing efforts to move bizjournals.com platform into Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Assisted project team in an in-depth SEO analysis of bizjournals.com. Resulting changes have improved indexing and established positive search signals and rankings- Provided initial R&D to build and deploy Facebook Instant Articles in 3 markets to monitor revenue and traffic outcomes- Assisting Ad Operations in exploring and implementing efficient “header bidding” technologies to improve programmatic ad delivery- Created an Adobe InDesign Extension called One Publish that ties print design application to CMS- Moved ad delivery architecture to Google Publishing Tags (GPT)- Launched ACBJ’s native iOS news app. App has a 4+ rating- Launched a proprietary CMS that reduced workflow times by 50%.