Director of New Media at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Director of New Media at Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
- Webmaster at MariaAbell.com
- Past
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- 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
- Webmaster at T&C Distributors
- TRP Operator at Suntrust Bank
- Owner/System Operator (SysOp) at Test Bench Bulletin Board System (BBS) (Sole Proprietorship)
- Education
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- Anne Arundel Community College
- Glen Burnie
- University of Maryland University College
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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
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Director of New Media
Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
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Webmaster
MariaAbell.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 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.
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Director, Web Publishing and Technology
Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)
February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)
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Internet Technical Director
Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 8 months)
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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.
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Perl/Web Developer
Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2000 — May 2005 (4 years 9 months)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Anne Arundel Community College
AS, Computer Science, 1996 — 1999
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Glen Burnie
1991 — 1996
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University of Maryland University College
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Wesley Craft’s Interests:
Boating/Sailing, wood-working, home-improvement, organization, and learning.
Wesley Craft’s Groups:
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Newspaper Professionals Network
Wesley Craft’s Honors:
2002 - Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows 2000 Professional
Wesley Craft’s Contact Settings
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