A successful freemium locator plugin and SaaS application using WordPress as an application foundation. Intimately involved in every aspect of product launch, maintenance, and development. Contributor to WordPress Core and Documentation. Corporate-level WordCamp sponsor for Atlanta, Charleston, and Orlando.

Key Duties:

• Company direction and strategy
• Application architecture, design, and development
• Defining and executing quality control and testing
• Leading marketing and brand awareness, site development and styling
• Documentation and assisting support

Technology:

WordPress standalone/multisite/plugin API/REST API, PHP, JavaScript, SCSS/CSS, Google Maps API, AWS EC2/RDS/S3/Scaling Groups/AMI management, Bitbucket, Trello, Slack

Direct Research & Development and IT Services for a ERP Software as a Service provider. Directing an in-place rewrite of a React SaaS application built on AWS cloud services. Assist in fund-raising efforts.

Key Duties:

• Architect & code front-end and back-end application components.
• Ensure business continuity via documentation, security, backup of IT and R&D assets.
• Assist in patent review and application of blockchain technologies.
• Build financial models & projections, intellectual property reports to assist in fundraising.

Technology:

React classes/functional components/context, Redux, Less/CSS, REST, Objection, JavaScript, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS EC2/RDS/S3/QuantumLedger/IAM, Jenkins, Github, Monday.com, Slack

Managing Information Technology and Research & Development for a medical marketing company in Monterey CA.   Served critical role in stabilizing technology assets after sudden departure of prior CTO. Implemented modern security and service reliability standards with a team of remote workers.

Key Duties:

• Setting system security &  reliability standards.
• Ensure uptime and performance of 600+ web properties.
• Architect & implement tools to facilitate large scale website management.
• Created CI/CD and deployment repository standard for development/staging/live code and DB updates.
• Lead architect & developer for PHP and JavaScript WordPress modifications.

Technology:

WordPress standalone/plugin API/theme API, REST API, WHM/cPanel API, PHP, JavaScript, SCSS/CSS, AWS EC2/RDS/S3, WHM, cPanel, Beanstalk, Trello, Teams

Technical writer for Skyword.  Contracted to write several articles per month about Jetpack.  Articles are user-friendly introductions to complex technical topics.

My Duties:

• Technical Writing for Jetpack

Founder of a developers-for-hire business that grew from 2 people to 20 people in less than 5 years. $3.5M in annual contracts with organizations and companies that included the USAF, Billboard Magazine, Tommy Hilfiger, USA Football as well as many local Charleston clients.

My Duties:

• Corporate direction and strategy
• Sales and marketing
• Recruiting and vetting top-tier technical talent
• Software Engineer (Linux, Windows, Mobile, micro controllers, web)

A self-taught programmer with a life-long passion for writing code and learning everything possible about computer science.  Started entrepreneurial career in mid-20s with a successful eCommerce company.   Launched several successful products and open source projects over the past couple of decades.

Notable Events:

• Published PostgreSQL Handler for Perl – popular database interface ported into a half-dozen languages
• Founder, Charleston Software Associates – independent software and eCommerce consultant
• Successful exit of The Lobster Net for just under $1M
• Launched The Lobster Net – Time Magazine Best Sites To Shop Online 1992 & 1993
• Founder, ProActive Web Marketing – Luxury Goods eCommerce
• Pioneered foundation for SQL soundex() function while at Recital while working under contract for HP and Oracle.
• Senior Software Engineer, Recital Corporation – 4GE and RDBMS
• BS Computer Science + Applied Mathematics, UMass Lowell