John Locke

Current

• Owner at Freelock, LLC

Past

• Writer/Program Manager at Kindred Communications
• Fisheries Technician at Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game
• Retail Sales at REI

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Education

• Alaska Pacific University
• St. Michaels University School

Recommendations

2 recommendations

Connections

215 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

John Locke’s Summary

Web developer, technical writer/author, server and network administrator. Goal is to bring effective, powerful computing systems to small and medium-sized businesses at affordable rates.

Author of book: "Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems," published by Charles River Media, June 2004.

John Locke’s Specialties:

Solving business problems with open source software: Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Financial systems installation, configuration, tailoring, and integration to allow your business to manage the details while your employees do the work. Linux, LAMP, PHP/MySQL, XML/XSLT, Web applications, remote access solutions/VPNs, email servers, maintenance, hosting, technology advising

John Locke’s Experience

• Owner

  Freelock, LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  Currently holds this position

• Writer/Program Manager

  Kindred Communications

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

• Fisheries Technician

  Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1993 — 1997 (4 years )

• Retail Sales

  REI

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1989 — 1995 (6 years )

John Locke’s Education

• Alaska Pacific University

  BA , Languages and Literature , September 1987 — June 1991

  Awarded "Renaissance Person Award"

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Government (representative), Student newspaper (Editor), United Nations Club

• St. Michaels University School

Additional Information

John Locke’s Interests:

Open source software, skiing, sailing, bicycling, fishing, kayaking, backpacking

John Locke’s Groups:

Seattle Thistle Fleet (#61), Corinthian Yacht Club, Business Networking International (BNI), Northwest Entrepreneurial Network (NWEN)

•    Drupal
•    FOSS Professionals
•    NWEN - Northwest Entrepreneur Network
•    MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest
•    MIT EF Chapter Volunteers

John Locke’s Honors:

Board Member, MIT Enterprise Forum Seattle chapter
Board Member, Freelance-Seattle

John Locke’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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