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Ed Nailor is the Senior Web Developer for a creative marketing firm in Charlotte, NC, as well as a freelance website designer and WordPress / website developer.
Fulltime Work
In my fulltime job, I am part of a “behind the scenes” creative agency working with national brands and marketing groups to fulfill their collateral and interactive creative needs. I oversee the production of all websites developed for our clients. I also provide communications and sales support for our clients as needed.
What does “behind the scenes” mean? Basically, our company operate as a “white label” company, meaning that we do fulfillment work for a number of other companies / sales centers. When it comes time to take credit for the work, we aren’t seen… the company we provided the creative for gets that credit. We are situated and presented to their clients as part of their creative team, allowing us to interact with their clients as part of their company. We bill the company directly and they usually mark up the cost to their client.
Freelance Work
I also provide freelance website design and development for select clients. Clients include “direct clients” and “wholesale clients”. With “direct clients” I work directly with the client to design and develop their own website, create a strategy for search engine optimization and consulting as needed. With “wholesale clients” I work with other designers and developers to help them fulfill their projects. My interaction with clients on my fulltime job suits my freelance work very well, especially when I am working with another company/freelancer in providing website design and development services… I can fit right in as part of the company’s team!
Experience
I have personally developed and overseen well over 150 website projects for over 100 different companies and client. These websites have included smaller budget 2-3 page informational websites, full-fledged ecommerce websites, mobile websites and large websites with well over 100 pages of content (including budgets well into the 5 digit range.)
I do an extensive amount of work with the WordPress content management system and have become well versed in the WordPress system. I can install WordPress, create WordPress themes (both parent and child themes) and write WordPress plugins. I also work with PHP, HTML, CSS and jQuery in most of my projects.
Personal Life
I have been married since 2003 to a wonderful woman, and together we have 3 terrific kids. We own a modest home in a family friendly neighborhood just outside of Charlotte, and have great neighbors.
Personally, two of the things I enjoy most are whitewater rafting and playing the drums… although I don’t get to do either nearly as much as I’d like. I also enjoy a great cup of coffee, stimulating conversation, college baskekball (Go Duke!) and NFL football (Carolina Panthers!) Politically, I am a fiscal conservative and a social moderate… I still believe in the value of hard work, but know that we should help each other as much as we can.
