Ben Lobaugh Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Burleson, Texas, US

I was brought into Mindsize by its founders due to my reputation for building high quality teams and delivering results to clients. The team has doubled year-over-year and is delivering high quality code. I was able to achieve this, in part, through the following:- Established modern software development lifecycle processes, including architectural reviews.

Lobaugh Leadership was established to provide services to help businesses and individuals grow. This was done through a two pronged approach:- BenLobaugh.com - Provides coaching services. Through this avenue I have helped business leaders understand the needs of their business and how to accelerate growth.- Fullsailmentorship.com - Provides mentorship to.

Philadelphia, PA, US

WebDevStudios crafts web based solutions for corporate and government clients. I was hired to help the company transition from a flat corporate structure to a team based structure. I built and ran teams from 2-25 people, made up of project leads, developers, and project managers. Some of my duties included:- Defining full project specs with clients..

Work with business partners to identify new business investment and development opportunities. Work with businesses we are invested in on financial and operating procedures.The business partnership dissolved and the remaining partner closed the business.

San Francisco, US

Worked on the Jetpack team. Jetpack is a product that has been installed more than 3 million times. Jetpack brings the power of the WordPress.com platform to standalone WordPress installations. While on the Jetpack team I was responsible for developing major new features, interfacing with internal and external teams, managing team projects, on going.

Responsibilities are similar to a previous on the Microsoft Interoperability team, with the addition that the MS Open Tech is now more focused on big data technologies such as MongoDB and Redis and the latest Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices. Worked with the Windows Azure team to enable support for WordPress Multisite on Windows Azure. Provide.

freshmuse is high end WordPress development firm in Seattle specializing in branding and development for enterprises and fortune 500 companies. In this position I was responsible for overseeing all ongoing development projects in the company. I participated in the architectural designs on each project, ensured timelines were met, managed internal and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Initially hired to write technical documentation and build demo apps to send to the field, it was quickly recognized that I had much more to contribute to the team. Over the course of the year I was heavily involved in the development of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP from a managerial and QA perspective ( See projects section below ). Provided technical.

Redesigned their existing app into an API platform

Briefly I worked on: the bookstore website (as webmaster), built the computer club website, worked with and coded for the primary website, overhauled the Wesley site, and built the iPhone/Android application. The Wesley site consisted of over 35 thousand static documents and was built by hand by various web programers over a decade. Utilizing many advanced.

Seattle, WA, US

Montana Banana is a full web development studio building everything from small websites to full featured billing systems. Though headquartered in Seattle, Montana Banana employs almost exclusively telecommute employes. I worked with a project manager and a designer on a large range of projects, including the billing application and an encyclopedia with an.

This was an as needed position involving all technological aspects. Lobaugh's Dahlias is one of the premier dahlia growers and originators in the world. Everything dealing with technology fell into my realm. I worked on an as needed basis researching, designing, and implementing all the technological needs, which included: Computer networking, Catalog.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

Council for Educational Travel U.S.A is a multi-national non-profit organization. When I started all editing was done live on the web server with Dreamweaver and there were no development guidelines. I immediately setup a development server and separated all development activities from the live server for safety and security. As there were also no backups.

Initially a 30 hour per week position that eventually became as needed as the company matured. I helped the owner get the business off the ground. Micronda was started by a lone entrepreneur wishing to get into the computer market. I was recommended by a professor from the local college to help the owner setup the company. I did a lot of hardware.

Maintain active web properties and design and develop new websites. This was a telecommute position that allowed me flexibility in creating my own work schedule and working from anywhere in the world. During this short contract I worked on improving the existing web properties and advised on the designs for new web properties.

US

Temporary position upgrading the entire collection of hundreds of main office and satellite office computers to Windows XP from Windows 2000. I also did limited hardware updates.

Maintenance of existing wired network, Installation of wireless network, Creation of network user policy, Troubleshooting, Web server setup with full ftp, www, ssh, and email access, researched equipment upgrades, optimized bandwidth, worked with ISP troubleshooting connectivity issues.

Technical Support, Network Diagnostics, IP Based Phone Systems, User Tutorial Creation, Networked Printers, Multiple Operating Systems Ranging from Mac OS 7 - OSX to Microsoft Windows 98 - XP, Computer Repair, Computer Maintenance

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Computer Science

Associate Of Science, Computer Science/Music Theory

Education record