Business - Technology - Development

For over 20 years I have been helping people and companies use technology to connect with each other. Focusing on creating new products and developing processes increasing efficiency & profitability. An entrepreneur who creates my own products, I often work with startup companies to help pull them forward and make great solutions.

I'm an Idea Technician, Mercenary CTO and full-stack developer and sys-admin that builds entire applications and systems from scratch or provide specialized knowledge on just the right things. I can work with new ideas and have helped to transform existing processes and systems.

If you want to connect with me please check me out on LinkedIn, Twitter or email me, jeffhorton at the rockieweb.com domain.

When I'm not helping companies I build side projects, you can learn about those here Side Apps

Some background on previous Projects and Clients

Some things I have worked on/with include:

  • Software as a Service Document processing ( Ruby/Rails, Javascript )
  • Cloud & local system deployment and configuration automations ( Puppet, AWS EC2, Capistrano, Windows networks )
  • Social network ranking & web collaboration ( LAMP/PHP, Javascript )
  • Game/Audio 5.1 Surround sound ( C++, OpenAL, SDL, OpenGL )
  • Both SCADA infrastructure security and Cloud systems monitoring agents ( Perl, shells, Several *nix )
  • Typo3, WordPress, Drupal & Joomla projects and plugin development ( PHP, MySQL )
  • Design and development of Location Based Services platform ( LAMP/PHP, Perl, C, MySQL )
  • Process / workflow tracking and automation ( LAMP/PHP, Perl, C, MySQL, IIS )
  • Management, Recruiting ( Team leadership, Mentoring, Forecasting, Budgeting )

You can find and contact me via LinkedIn http://ca.linkedin.com/in/jeffhorton1

Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/jeffhorton

Read my blog http://rockieweb.com/jhorton/

You can often find me in person at the following events

  • Bootup/Startup drinks
  • FullIndie indie game developer meetup
  • Social Games meetup
  • VanDev meetups
  • VanJS meetups
  • Erlang meetups

My Side Apps

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Quotes

“Jeff is a unique and highly prized type of technologist. He is without question a generalizing specialist, navigating systems architecture, whether a console or Chef / Puppet, application development at any level or language, full stack troubleshooting across numerous types of architectures and doing all of those things and more with a goal oriented approach, getting to the point fast and delivering increments of tangible progress. Jeff is a rock solid pair of hands, someone who I'd work with again given any opportunity.", Jerome Pimmel, Technology Director - Blitzoo Inc.


“I had the pleasure of working with Jeff. He is extremely insightful and always delivers very robust solutions that are well thought of and bring value to the whole ecosystem. The only downside is that he cost a little fortune in coffee, budget for it ;)”, Patrick Rousseau, President - CoFounder, BlackLine GPS Corp.


“Jeff was a talented and hard working IT manager while at Sharper. He was instrumental in conceptualizing, planning and then implementing many of the technology solutions we continue to employ today. It has been these applications and work flows that allowed us to grow our revenues, without adding in extra abour - improving our profitability. He is a GEM!!!!”, Susan Nawrocki, President, SharperTM

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