Jim Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Avid Ratings is a customer experience technology company for the homebuilding industry. Our products & services are used by homebuilders, building product manufacturers, dealers & distributors, remodelers, contractors, and other home professionals to measure and strengthen their customer experience, improve operational efficiencies, manage brand reputation, increase online visibility, and generate sales. Thousands of home industry professionals depend on the AvidCX platform and experienced team for measuring, analyzing, and improving the level of quality they deliver.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Shoutlet, a Spredfast company, is an enterprise-class, cloud-based social marketing platform that empowers brands to build meaningful customer relationships that drive real value. Through data acquisition, customer insights, and business integrations, Shoutlet helps more than 600 brands in 60 countries build the relationships that actually build business.Headquartered in Madison, WI, Shoutlet has additional offices in Atlanta and London. Current customers include 3M, Best Buy, Fox Sports, Hot Topic, 24 Hour Fitness, Canon, and Norwegian Cruise Line.Responsible for the initial product design and implementation of backend systems and programming for the Shoutlet web application.

Greater Milwaukee Area

* Implemented in Perl and SQL a complete web based business financial software suite thatincludes user sign-up and billing, online demos, on-the-fly financial forecasting anddynamic PDF report generation * Handled all aspects of site design, programming and maintenance. * Managed outside contractors and vendors involved with the hosting and support of thesite. * Implemented Google AdSense into the site structure.

Greater Milwaukee Area

* Worked with a small group of developers via telecommunication to implement corefunctionality of the site. * Wrote AJAX based object/inventory handling system with a PHP/SQL backend for workingwith in-game objects. * Created an interface between WhuddleWorld and PayPal for the purchase of in-gameobjects and backend management of payment processing * Developed an interactive advertising system tied to in-game objects. * Assisted in the moderation and management of a large interactive community.

Fond Du Lac, Wi

* Wrote and maintained web based CMS systems in PHP, Perl and Javascript. * Took leadership in moving designs to standards compliant XHTML and CSS, addingefficiency to the development process. * Handled a wide variety of design and application programming tasks for customersincluding Kohler Co. * Implemented the Addy Award winning Whistling Straits DHTML application for DestinationKohler.

Greater Milwaukee Area

* Oversaw up to 6 project developers on the creation of a web based customer care andbilling system designed to handle the ISP billing for Voyager.Net and all acquiredcompanies. * Introduced a MOD_Perl template system that allowed for the dynamic creation of multiplecorporate web sites based on the viewer's region and originating ISP. * Mentored fellow employees in Perl and web application techniques. ExecPC, Inc. Systems Programmer 1998 InterActive Project Developer 1996 * 1998 InternetTech Support 1995 * 1996; * Maintained and improved the World File Project (FilePile), an Internet portal to theExecPC BBS file collection with over 1,000,000 files available and several thousand dailydownloads. * Engineered the online display and back-end administration routines for theentertainment schedule portion of the Summerfest web site that continues to be used today.Responsible for the 1998 Summerfest web site design. * Developed several other projects for internal use including a banner advertisementsystem, secure shopping cart libraries and a customer order tracking system. * Handled server maintenance issues with Apache, Linux and SSL.