Wesley Craft

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

Washington D.C. Metro Area

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)
Education
  • Anne Arundel Community College
  • Glen Burnie
  • University of Maryland University College
Connections
91 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

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 2008Present (1 year 8 months)

  • Webmaster

    MariaAbell.com

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

    August 2004Present (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 2008April 2008 (3 months)

  • Internet Technical Director

    Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.

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

    July 2006February 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  • Programmer/Analyst

    L3 Communications Titan Group

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

    May 2005July 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 2000May 2005 (4 years 9 months)

  • E-Commerce Consultant/Programmer

    PC Warehouse

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

    January 2001December 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)

    19982000 (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 1997August 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 1992December 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 , 19961999

  • Glen Burnie

    19911996

  • University of Maryland University College


Additional Information

Wesley Craft’s Websites:

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

Wesley Craft’s Honors:

2002 - Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows 2000 Professional


Wesley Craft’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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