Sheryl Morgan Kausek

Professional experience

Software Engineer (Contract via Infinite Computer Solutions)

Feb 2023 – Mar 2026 | New York, NY

IBM: Led a squad responsible for the ongoing development of an inherited documentation platform used across various IBM.com teams; optimized site structure, navigability, and health of its enterprise codebase.

• Coordinated the team-wide restructuring of 200+ MDX-integrated pages, contributing hands-on to a substantial portion while guiding squad progress and ensuring file, directory, and path updates maintained site health.
• Led the squad-level creation of a comprehensive AEM component library rebuild serving as technical documentation for custom components; personally built about 40% of the pages, coordinated with team members, and ensured consistent adherence to enterprise design system standards.
• Empowered non-technical stakeholders by teaching Git workflows (forking, branching, and MDX editing), reducing team bottlenecks and enabling contributions.
• Maintained high code quality as part of a two-person senior review team, managing final Pull Request (PR) approvals and production release cycles.
• Facilitated Agile delivery by driving sprint planning in Jira and backlog grooming for my squad; leveraged Copilot to draft detailed user stories and technical requirements, ensuring on-time delivery of documentation milestones.

Web Content Manager/Developer (Contract via Morningview Technologies Inc)

Jul 2012 – Feb 2023 | New York, NY

IBM: Developed and maintained internal and external IBM web properties across four platform generations (Custom CMS, WCM, Drupal 8, and AEM), ensuring high-traffic sites met enterprise front-end and accessibility standards.

• Served as Discipline Lead for the Hybrid Cloud production pool, mentoring developers and resolving challenging technical issues.
• Chaired bi-monthly developer calls, managing agendas and documentation to standardize procedures and share technical insights across cross-functional production teams.
• Collaborated with the PMO to track developer progress, identifying new feature requirements and opening work tickets to align engineering output with project milestones.
• Ported legacy sites and migrated existing content into new enterprise systems while maintaining content integrity, SEO performance, and brand consistency.

Senior Web Designer/Developer

Jul 2008 – Mar 2012 | New York, NY

LicenseStream: Led UI development and front-end design for an ASP.NET-based licensing platform.

• Engineered interactive interfaces using XHTML, HTML5, and jQuery and built production-ready assets for ASP.NET backend integration.
• Implemented modular CSS architectures using LESS and CSS3 frameworks to ensure site scalability.
• Optimized web multimedia and managed cross-browser testing in an Agile environment.

XHTML/CSS Web Designer

Mar 2008 – Jun 2008 | New York, NY
Pere Partnership: Partnered with designers/developers to translate PHP mockups into pixel-perfect XHTML/CSS and refactored legacy code for performance.

Consultant (Contractual)

Nov 2007 – Mar 2008 | New York, NY
WebMD: Built pixel-perfect promo sites and HTML emails from Photoshop using XHTML, CSS, and JS; integrated third-party Flash assets and performed extensive QA.

Associate Producer

Sep 2006 – Nov 2007 | New York, NY
WebMD: Produced promotional sites using XHTML/CSS and Photoshop; developed a RegEx-based code library to streamline team workflows and managed CMS publishing.