Michigan State University

Northwestern University

Entrepreneur, Experience Designer, Web Developer/Architect

Volunteer website developer for political campaigns - primarily for state-level political offices. Member of teams creating and maintaining multiple websites for 2019 candidates for Virginia House of Delegates and Senate. Member of website "SWAT" team making rapid response updates to candidate sites. Working primarily in Wordpress, including custom theme development, with integrations to 3rd-party systems e.g. NGP-VAN and ActBlue.

Tech for Campaigns

Volunteer Web Developer

Founder and principal of StarCharm - e-commerce site offeirng personalized, laser-engraved astrological Natal Chart jewelry.

StarCharm LLC

Founder

Member of engineering team developing and maintaining high volume e-commerce marketplace site for microlending. Helped evolve site from desktop-only LAMP architecture to responsive design with Vue front end and graphQL back end. Also participated in UI/UX design, product planning and user research.

Kiva.org

Senior Web Developer

Web development for automotive vertical search engine startup.

Chug.net

Web Developer

Led development of the2ofyou.com - a website to help couples strengthen and enhance their relationships.  Compared to sites like Match.com that help couples GET together, the goal of the2ofyou.com was to help couples STAY together.

the2ofyou.com

CTO and Cofounder

Custom web architecture, development and experience design.

Webmond LLC

Principal

Designing and developing websites for clients including University of Phoenix and Kronos Optimal Health

Hydrastudios

Consultant

Provided leadership in defining, choosing, adopting, and implementing technology systems and solutions for this network of progressive nonprofit organizations (Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Shared Spaces, and others) to advance their mission of "actively promoting change toward a healthy and just society."  Solutions were predominantly web-based and included database-backed dynamic sites for extranets, intranets, financial reporting, time tracking, request management, financial reporting and grant applications.

Tides

Technologist-in-residence / Applications Architect

Cofounded and co-led interactive media development services startup which grew from 3 founders to a staff of 50+ and multimillion $ revenue, with a blue-chip client list (Apple, Microsoft, Equitable Life, Duty Free Stores, Simon & Schuster, Wells Fargo) and was then acquired by US subsidiary of Japanese public company. My role included both business and creative direction as well as technical design and hands-on development.

Jim Edlin