Wesley Craft

Current

Director of New Media at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
Webmaster at MariaAbell.com

Past

Director, Web Publishing and Technology at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
Internet Technical Director at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
Programmer/Analyst at L3 Communications Titan Group

Perl/Web Developer at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
E-Commerce Consultant/Programmer at PC Warehouse
TRP Operator at Suntrust Bank
Webmaster at T&C Distributors
Owner/System Operator (SysOp) at Test Bench Bulletin Board System (BBS) (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

Anne Arundel Community College
Glen Burnie
University of Maryland University College

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Recommended

3 people have recommended Wesley

Connections

91 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Company

Wesley Craft’s Summary

A focused and multi-talented developer, manager, and mentor. Over the past decade, my skills have expanded greatly to include web software development, web systems infrastructure and architecture, and management. I have built web platform systems from the ground-up and managed them solo. I have a solid large-view look at the systems side of web development from the far back end to the far front end.

Wesley Craft’s Specialties:

Perl, MySQL and LAMP Development. Apache and Linux-based web delivery systems.

Wesley Craft’s Experience

Director of New Media

Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Webmaster

MariaAbell.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

Design, implementation and continued maintenance of the public-facing website. Configure and maintain the CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux LAMP platform that the site is hosted on.
Director, Web Publishing and Technology

Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)
Internet Technical Director

Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

July 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Programmer/Analyst

L3 Communications Titan Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

May 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Maintenance of existing web-based software, and design/implementation of new software. Programming done primarily in Perl. Also worked on the "super search" project to combine multiple separate database searches into a single user-interface. Some basic systems administration on Sun Solaris boxes with Apache/MySQL. All work done for the National Institute for Literacy.
Perl/Web Developer

Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

September 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 9 months)
E-Commerce Consultant/Programmer

PC Warehouse

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year )

Designed and implemented an online e-commerce application with a front-end much like the Gateway Computer, or Dell Inc. dynamic ordering systems whereby a customer could build their own PC and get a price quote immediately. The application provided a database back end with GUI for administration of inventory, available options and pricing.
TRP Operator

Suntrust Bank

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Hi-speed data entry with a minimum quota of 1200 documents per hour processed.
Webmaster

T&C Distributors

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)

January 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 8 months)

Design and implementation of public-facing e-commerce website and administration GUI backend. Systems were Nix-based running Apache and MySQL. E-commerce solutions included online inventory management, order retrieval and status updates, credit card transactions through CardService International via their Perl wrapper API.
Owner/System Operator (SysOp)
Test Bench Bulletin Board System (BBS) (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

January 1992 — December 1997 (6 years )

Just before and at the beginning stages of the Internet revolution taking hold in American households via services such as CompuServe and AOL, I was running a multi-networked bulletin board system from home. It was based on a solo x486 PC with dual modems and twin copper tip and ring phone lines for multi-user possibility and interaction.

The BBS system was built around the "Virtual BBS" software and was co-networked with other like-BBS systems (via VirtualNET) to deliver networked games such as Legend of The Red Dragon (LORD) as well as a primitive Internet email capability. Networking was not real-time. Transfers were queued in the system for periodic "calls" to our up-link and down-link nodes.

It was on this system that I first interacted "online" with other users via chat, gaming, and email. I also first implemented an online classifieds, which had limited success. During it's height, the BBS catered to approx. 150 regular users and 15-20 dial-in calls per day.

Wesley Craft’s Education

Anne Arundel Community College

AS , Computer Science , 1996 — 1999
Glen Burnie

1991 — 1996
University of Maryland University College

Additional Information

Wesley Craft’s Websites:

My Company

Wesley Craft’s Interests:

Boating/Sailing, wood-working, home-improvement, organization, and learning.

Wesley Craft’s Groups:

Perl Mongers

Online News Association
Perl Mongers
ThoseinMedia
Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
AACC
Streaming Media Professionals
Newspaper Professionals Network
INTERACTIVE & DIGITAL MEDIA GROUP
Future Social Media
Annapolis
Landmark Media Enterprises
Linked Local Northeast Baltimore
Rising Tide PPS