Joshua Simmons
Chief Web Monkey
- Location
- Santa Rosa, California (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Industry
- Online Media
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Joshua Simmons's Overview
- Current
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- Executive Director at Web & Interactive Media Professionals
- Partner at Shoestring Solutions: Website Bootcamp
- Chief Web Monkey at Bluebird Interactive
- Past
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- Web Developer at Self-Employed
- Computer Programmer at Neo Car Audio
- Junior Consultant at eBoost Consulting
- E-Committee Chair at Alpha Kappa Psi - Mu Sigma Chapter
- Education
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- San Diego State University-California State University
- Santa Rosa Junior College
- Recommendations
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6 people have recommended Joshua
- Connections
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172 connections
- Websites
Joshua Simmons's Summary
Joshua Simmons is a technology generalist, social entrepreneur, and North Bay native. He finds his zen in complexity, and leverages his talents as a web developer to optimize, engage, and simplify.
He's the CEO of startup Bluebird Interactive, a Santa Rosa based firm whose bread and butter is providing white label development to other agencies. Bluebird leverages its earnings from client services to invest in incubating its own projects.
A North Bay native, Joshua spends much of his time giving back to the community. He's the co-founder of Web & Interactive Professionals (WIMP) and organizer of the 2012 North Bay Web Design Conference.
Specialties
User experience design, operational efficiency, LAMP web development, and community building.
Joshua Simmons's Experience
Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
November 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)
Shoestring Solutions hosts workshop boot camps in Northern California for businesses in need of a web presence. Shoestring is a product I've dreamt of building for a long time. Bluebird is developing the technology, and Shoestring Solutions is the sole distributor.
I present on the range of tools available and how to manage your individual Shoestring website.
Chief Web Monkey
Bluebird Interactive
Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry
April 2008 – Present (3 years 10 months) Santa Rosa, CA
Founded the company, connected the people, and created the vision. I handle much of our our sales, consulting, training, product strategy, project management, marketing, administration, and business development. Sometimes I do web development, too!
Web Developer
Self-Employed
August 2002 – April 2008 (5 years 9 months) San Francisco Bay Area
Jack of all trades. Web development, web design, software development, desktop support, and general technology advice.
I speak many languages, including: Visual Basic, ASP, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Java.
Junior Consultant
eBoost Consulting
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
2006 – 2007 (1 year) Greater San Diego Area
Web marketing including pay per click, guerilla, search engine and social media. Web development and design.
E-Committee Chair
Alpha Kappa Psi - Mu Sigma Chapter
Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry
2006 – 2007 (1 year) Greater San Diego Area
Designed t-shirts, flyers, and the chapter web site. Managed chapter email accounts. Introduced a text messaging broadcast system for organization wide up alerts and reminders.
Joshua Simmons's Skills
- Web Development
- Web Project Management
- Online Marketing
- Information Architecture
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Community Building
- Enterprise Content Management
- Digital Media
- Software Development
- Server Administration
- Database Design
- Database Development
- Business Strategy
- Drupal
- PHP
- MySQL
- Apache
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- Front-end Development
Joshua Simmons's Education
San Diego State University-California State University
Journalism
2006 – 2007
Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Psi: professional co-ed business fraternity.
Santa Rosa Junior College
Philosophy, Interactive Media
Joshua Simmons's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Productivity, transparency, new technology, naturalism, applied philosophy & psychology & anthropology.
- Groups and Associations:
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Alpha Kappa Psi
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- Honors and Awards:
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International Oracle Data Modeling Competition, Finalist, 2004.
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