The Team

Experiences

Early Years

Classical piano performance – Currently perform about twice a week with my own original musical compositions (a blend of classical, swing jazz and pop) / Looking to create a band.

Education and Training

Classical Piano Performance Training – 1970-1980
Judo – 1975
Nimitz High School in Irving TX – 1977-1979
Texas Christian University – 1979-1980
Dallas County Community Colleges – 1980-1981
US Army Basic Training and Artillery School – 1981
Kenpo Karate – 1986
Life Insurance & Series 6 Investment Training – 1987
Tom Hopkins Champions Sales Training – 1990
Farrier/Horse Shoe Training – 1991
Project Management Training – 2017

Work Experiences

Irving Public Schools
1978
Facility maintenance / grounds and air conditioning

Dallas Avionics
1978-1980
Independent contractor for electrical assembly of testing wiring harnesses

Southwestern Bell Telephone
1979-1981
Computer billing center and microfiche management

Pizza Hut
1979
Waiter

D&L Manufacturing
1980
Stereo speaker assembly line for speakers sold to World Wide Brand Stereo Stores

US Army
1981-1985
Fire Support Specialist – Forward observer for Field Artillery / Ft Sill, OK, Irving TX Recruitment Center, Ft Hood, TX, and Nuremburg, West Germany

Custom Graphics/Classic Press
1985-2003 (at times only part-time)
Family business / wholesale and retail offset printing

AL Williams / Primerica Financial Services
1986-1997
Term life insurance and mutual fund investments / Sales training / Regional Vice President

Heavenly Scent Candles
1997-1999
Co-founder of premium scented candle MLM and created database design for MLM payouts

Bluebonnet Antiques
2003-2006
Ebay and retail sales

SpeedFC (a fulfillment company offering at cost website development and marketing)
2006
Internet Marketing Manager / PPC, Affiliate marketing, and SEO for multiple companies

Baseball Express (a catalog company transitioning over to online with initially 3 sports, and slowly added more later)
2006-2011
(2.5 years full time and 2.5 years contract)
Internet Marketing Manager / PPC, Affiliate marketing, Product feeds, Amazon, and SEO

DoorDash / UberEats
2018-2019
Contract food and grocery delivery – also spent this time reverse engineering their apps and algorithms in an exercise for potential business opportunities in smaller city markets

Music City Mall Lewisville
2018-2022
333 weekly piano performances in 3.5 years

Memorial Masters
2022-2023
Funeral livestreaming and memorial service recording – Occasional fill in when overbooked

Prohostco / XEARA
1998-Present
Online consulting, Website development and design, and Internet marketing for small business

Collin County Colleges
2019-Present
Teach website design using WordPress for continuing education department

Automated Business Connections
2021-Present
Automated business referrals

Other

Music Miscellaneous
Served on 2 church praise and worship teams, and participated in 2 Christian rock bands

BYO (a charitable music organization)
Participated in monthly musical jam get togethers, and performed for many charitable organizations for free, helping them to raise funding by playing music for their events

B2BnDFW (my mastermind group)
2012-Present
Manage a mastermind group for 10+ years on meetup

St David of Wales Episcopal Church in Denton, TX
2013-2014
Served on church board for 2 years

The Finance Forum (non-profit organization for non-banking finance alternatives)
2015-2019
Served on board for 4 years

Point Bank Business Breakfasts
2018
Speaker at 5 Business Breakfasts

Experiences

Education and Training

Homeschool

freeCodeCamp Certifications

• Responsive Web Design Developer
• JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Developer
• Front End Libraries Developer
• Data Visualization Developer
• APIs and Microservices Developer
• Information Security and Quality Assurance
• Full Stack

I excel at modern JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, React, and WordPress. I also have some experience with Vue, PHP, Java, and Python.

• GitHub profile
• GitLab profile
• freeCodeCamp profile

Involvement with WordPress

I have been a very active contributor to the WordPress block editor (“Gutenberg”) project, being involved in over 1000 issues and pull requests. I myself have authored over 110 pull requests that were merged into the main codebase, and I have helped review and merge over 300 PRs by other developers.

I have also been involved in several discussions on the Make WordPress Blog and Slack channels, resulting in some notable mentions in some WP Tavern articles.

Contributions to open source projects

• WordPress Gutenberg (110+ PRs); listed as a “noteworthy contributor” on the WordPress 5.4 and 5.5 About pages.
• dir-archiver (1 PR)
• Paid Memberships Pro (4 PRs)
• Mailgun PHP client (1 PR)
• Symplify PHPStan Rules (2 PRs)
• PHPStorm stubs (2 PRs)
• DefinitelyTyped (1 PR)
• PHP docs (1 PR)

Work Experiences

Automated Business Connections
2020-Present
CTO / Developer 

DATCU – Denton Area Teachers Credit Union
2023-Present
Software Developer

Other

Six Church Summer Mission Trips
2014-2019

Boy Scouts and Trail Life
2012-2016