Chris Williams Email & Phone Number

• 13 years of IT related experience including client, server, and network management• 11 years of PHP/MySQL web application creation and project management. • 7 years of on-site search engine optimization experience.• 4 years of experience in social media marketing for businesses. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, etc• Well-rounded IT background of infrastructure management including networks, systems, web hosting, and software development.• A driving passion to proactively stay on the cutting edge and understand all things technology related.• Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows Server, RHEL, CentOS• Web Language Skill Set: PHP, SQL, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, HTML, CSS, XML/JSON/SOAP• Server Software Skill Set: IIS, Apache, MySQL, PHP• Design Software Skill Set: Adobe Creative Suites, and many IDEs

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  Ceo & Founder

  Widenet Consulting, Llc

  Jan 2005 - Present - Oxford, Al

  • Founded the company in 2005 and grew the business from a 2 person website design company into a reputable 11 person digital marketing agency with over 350 clients.• Responsible for company saving product and market shifts for over 9 years.• Created the WideNet Control Panel, a proprietary website CMS enabling customers to manage all aspects of their websites, manage contacts, track purchases, send eNewsletters, and more. It runs on a single code base for easy upgrade and security modifications powering over 500 websites in the Rackspace cloud environment.• Obtained many high profile websites in Northeast Alabama including Alabama Power, YKK, Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce, AOD Federal Credit Union, Quintard Mall, JSU College of Business, and many nonprofits.• Created Chirrps.com, a website to rank all tweets by popularity based on retweets before Twitter officially supported and counted retweets. Utilized Rackspace’s Cloud Servers and Cloud Sites products to process millions of tweets daily using Twitter’s fastest APIs with CentOS, MySQL, and PHP. Was approached by and used this code base to assist Microsoft in a Retweet based campaign for the Windows 7 product launch.