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Club-Webs is a licensed solution provider for the world’s leading web-based content management system for associations, clubs, charities and other non-profit and member-based organizations.  The Club-Webs software platform is a branded, licensed tool.

Club-Webs creates integrated web sites to automate membership management, event registration, mass emails, web site management and online payments and donations.  This is my only business.  It’s what I do.  I make integrated, membership-based web sites.  Period. I don’t get sidetracked with other, more generic web sites – there’s plenty of people doing that these days.  I focus on this particular one area and do it well.

Club-Webs web sites are designed for non-technical people who, if they are reasonably familiar with Microsoft Word, can start using the system in a few hours -- no expensive training required. Over 4,500 organizations are already using this system to take the daily hassle out of managing their organizations.

A home-based business operating out of my house in Gaithersburg, MD, about 20 miles outside Washington, DC

That’s me.  Well, that’s not really what I look like, but until I get a decent photo this one will have to do.  I am the founder of Club-Webs.  You can read about the history of Club-Webs and why I started it below.

As for me, I’m an accomplished software and web developer.  I have a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Penn State University.  I began my career as a consultant at Price Waterhouse (one of the original “Big 8” accounting firms for those who remember that) designing COBOL mainframe systems for clients such as the U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. Dept. of Transportation and the U.S. Air Force to name a few.

I then worked on designing and developing numerous PC-based applications in both client-server and standalone environments for companies such as Computer Curriculum Corp. (now part of Simon & Schuster), Household Credit Services, Sentara Health Systems and Fannie Mae.

Next I worked for Microsoft Corp. in their consulting division assisting Microsoft’s tier one corporate customers in implementing Microsoft technologies and architectures.

In the late 1990’s while at IBM I began developing web-based applications for their healthcare information systems division.  The rest, as they say, is history.  In total I have about 15 years of software and web development experience, with a special interest in user interface design and usability.  To see a more detailed resume, click here.

I started Club-Webs after witnessing first-hand the difficulties and frustrations associated with running a large, volunteer-based organization – my school’s PTA.  As the Membership Chairperson, my job was to get new members to sign up, renew old members, keep track of the cash and checks given to me, and upload data to the national and state PTA databases.  Our school has over 800 students, yet all of this was being done manually on Excel spreadsheets!

Being a technical person, I knew I could figure out a better way to streamline this process as well as coordinate the parallel and redundant activities of our Phone Directory chairperson, Social Committee chairperson, and many others.

After researching the problem and possible solutions, I finally discovered the answer I was looking for.  It was simple, elegant, comprehensive and, most importantly, fast and inexpensive.  I knew other similar organizations could benefit from what I’d found so I decided to become a licensed partner with the software tool provider so that I could assist others in achieving their web goals too.  And, thus, the Club-Webs company was born.

Elise is a full-time student with a strong interest in computers, animation, art and design.  She assists me with creating simple graphics and fancy text.  Oh, yeah, she’s also my daughter.

I rely on a network of trusted business advisors to assist me in the areas of marketing, accounting and finance, legal and all those other necessary but sometimes tedious business areas.

A professionally-trained web and software developer with real-world experience designing business web sites and applications.

A family-oriented company that isn’t beneath utilizing “cheap human labor” in the form of it’s children to perform valuable Club-Web work such as data entry & transcription, critiquing work product (a strong suit), usability testing and sometimes apprenticeship/shadow-study work.

I believe that this only enriches their life experiences and demonstrates the value of hard work and attention to detail.  I assure them that they will thank me in the long run for including them.

Professional, courteous, honest, reasonable, thorough, attentive and fun

A Fortune 500 company or a home-based business using “Internet Magic” to pretend to be a big, powerful, multi-departmental business operating on the top floor of a shiny, glass office building such as the Empire State Building.

A hack who learned to program by “modding” Nintendo games and creating Facebook pages for my friends.

A company that hints by way of stock photos placed on their web site at having a large, experienced staff of professionals dressed in power suits on the payroll, ready to solve every conceivable problem for their presumably expansive client list.

A single-minded, difficult, arrogant, techno-geek with little-to-no interpersonal skills.

I don’t publish an address for Club-Webs on the Internet because it is my home address and, let’s face it, there are some pretty strange people out there surfing the Internet.  One can never be too careful.  Of course, paying customers would have this address.

“Internet Magic” is comprised of things like P.O. Boxes, “Suite” numbers, overuse of the word “we” when you really mean “I”, the mysterious absence of a published physical address**, and so on with the intention of masking one’s true identity.