Andrew McGill

Experience

• 5/2017 to present

  Senior Product Manager, The Atlantic

  Helps dream up, plan out, and build new things for The Atlantic to do online.
  The Masthead, The Atlantic's premium membership product, which I helped launch; Unthinkable, a collection of 50 essays on Donald Trump's first term.
• 12/2015 to 4/2017

  Senior Associate Editor, The Atlantic

  Reported and coded for the magazine's politics team, covering Washington and the 2016 campaign.
  Why white people don't use white emoji; how to hack an IoT toaster; a bot that could tell when it really was Donald Trump tweeting.
• 1/2015 to 11/2015

  Graphics Director, National Journal

  Led a three-person team making static and interactive graphics that explored policy.
  a web app mapping where presidential candidates were traveling; another web app tracking campaign staff hiring.
• 7/2012 to 12/2014

  Data reporter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  Built the newsroom's computer-assisted reporting efforts, writing data stories, coding interactives, and training staff.
  A web app tracking Pittsburgh's mayor; a big-data dive into truck safety; my video reviews of Pittsburgh-area haunted houses.
• 6/2010 to 6/2012

  Reporter, The (Allentown) Morning Call

  Covered local government and communities, as well as the 2010 Census.
  My months of coverage of the Penn State child abuse scandal; a scraper detecting when PA politicans delete their constituent's Facebook comments; that time I raced in lederhosen.

Education

Penn State Schreyer Honors College Class of 2010, B.A. journalism, 3.71 GPA

Skills

• Web
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • D3
  • Node.js
  • R
  • MySQL/Postgres/NoSQL
  • Ruby
  • Python
• Design
  • Sketch
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • Final Cut

Recent conferences and media

• SRCCON 2019 session on membership
• Boston Globe mention of @TrumpOrNotBot
• NPR All Tech Considered interview on IoT toaster hack