Career Bio
Over my career I have worked for international businesses, small businesses and have run my own businesses. I currently do freelance consulting under Loafin’ Tree LLC. As of July 2022, I have been working as the IT Development and System Support Specialist at Food Sciences Corporation where I manage about 100 e-commerce and marketing websites. Previously, I worked for 6 years as the Senior Web Developer for Lew Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. My prominent roles have been within creative or management in engineering, printing, marketing, web development and gaming fields.
My strengths include being a problem solver and a ‘quick study’ with exceptional analytic, communication and team leadership skills. I have decades of experience in multiple fields, the three primary being Mechanical Engineering, Visual Communication and Information Technology. I achieved awards as early as age 14 (Broome County Industrial Arts) and later a Chase Manhattan Design award. Before my current vocation I was employed by WHS Robotics (Robotic Material Handling), Universal Instruments (Subsidiary of Dover – High Speed Circuit Board Component Placement), IBM (Industrial/Chemical Piping Facility Plans), Raymond Corporation (Subsidiary of Toyota – Electric Computer Controlled Narrow Aisle Material Handling), and Forbes (Art Director).
In 2003, two years after attending Temple University, I formed my own Web Development and Marketing company, Loafin’ Tree LLC whose clients include Motorola, Certainteed (Subsidiary of Saint-Gobain), Asurion, Virginia Department of Health, Rockingham Memorial Hospital, International Mind, Brain and Education Society as well as many other retail, government and non-profit organizations.
I received several scholarships to attend Temple University, finishing with a 3.9 GPA. My aptitude in Art History (4.1 GPA) allowed me to tutor fellow students and garnered an invitation to join an expedition of Archeology field work in Javols, France among doctoral students in my freshman year. I am active in the art community with many paintings and photography commissions and have done extensive volunteer work for religious organizations, economic development corporations, art galleries, the deaf community and other local entities in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. I have over a decade of public speaking experience. I speak some French, American Sign Language and a little Russian, I’ve acted as the Technical Director for a Philadelphia start-up company, CloudCaps, and wrote a monthly technical column for The Fallser with an associated blog. In 2012 I formed a game company with a partner whose father has been a game designer for the past 30+ years as a designer on Axis and Allies™ and Lost Worlds book game system still published 30 years later with royalties paid by a Japanese publisher.
As Senior Web Developer for Klein College, I delegated projects to another web developer and student employees and managed over 40 websites in three WordPress Multisite networks including department, school, research, news, agency, faculty, project, media, and student websites. In 2018 I was chosen to attend Temple Management Academy. I continue oversight of Loafin’ Tree LLC. This added up to nearly 100 websites I managed on over 5 hosting platforms. I also have a very capable partner that helps my clients with SEO/SEM.
My primary foci are graphic design, and WordPress for web development. As of 2021, 40% of the internet is powered by WordPress. I would estimate over 80% of the sites I manage are WordPress driven. I manage LAMP and Windows hosts with IIS, Apache, nginx and Litespeed. I specialize in providing fast and secure hosting for WordPress.
I was an Advisory Board member for The Local for 3 years. I also served as a member of the Design Committee for East Falls Development Corporation. I have volunteered at Temple and other community events/committees. I was the layout designer of a local community paper covering Northwest Philadelphia for 2 years.
In 2019, I formed Leaf Peeps LLC that sells CBD products sourced from a regenerative, organic farm in PA. In 2021, I made some of my photographs available as framed wall art.
Other times I read, travel, photograph, hike, camp, play games, eat, sleep and explore.
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