Exo-CTO
Your job is to manage the tech stack for your organization, and you've got at least two other directives that demand your focus as well.
This is for you.
I "project manage" your tech stack, providing consistent maintenance, oversight and collaborative guidance.
You get peace of mind, and are able to offload tech maintainence, and planning, to somone who is intelligent, communicative and supportive.
I have space for a few more clients.
Exo-CTO I ($400 / month) [0/2]
Maintain your digital edge.
We meet once per week.
Eight hours per month.
$50/hour
Exo-CTO II ($900 / month) [0/2]
Advance a moderately intensive strategy.
We meet twice per week.
Five hours per week.
$45/hour
Exo-CTO III ($1800 / month) [1/2]
Not full-time but accessible full-time.
Ten hours per week.
$45/hour
Hours are flexible and roll-over on all levels; meaning, while paid on retainer, if hours are not fully used in one month, they will roll-over into the next month, compounding your hours.
If enough hours have accued, a larger project can be accomplished with those hours.
Though I do not work more than 30 hours per week in this work, so as to maintain time to be fully accessible to you. Therefore, if a project is to be done, there is time to be alloted.
So if another ECIII client arrives, I will shut down the ECII level. While if an ECII client arrives, I'll shutdown the ECIII level. All so as to maintain availability to all of my clients.
Additionally, you are not paying for the hours of thought, you are paying for hours of action; and allow me enough hours free for thought.
This being the economically most efficient way to optimize the system that provides the energy, and outcomes, that I'm able to provide; it's science, seriously.
Why this work
I want to serve the organizations, and individuals, who might not otherwise have access to this level of expertise.
I love helping people, and I have the technical aptitude, along with the communication skills, to do so at a level of extraordinary excellence, in service to wonderful people (you!).
It feels like a win-win to me.
Why work with me
- You want to be the best in your field, with a digital edge over the rest.
- You want access to technical expertise, time-tested strategies and hard-earned insight, to make your digital output the best that it can be.
- You want someone you can trust, someone who believes in you and your work, to help you build and manage your digital presence, and the digital presence of your businesses and projects.
- You want your digital presence to be optimized, and accessible to you.
If any of these reasons resonate with you, schedule a curiosity call and let's see how the vibes fit: https://calendly.com/dreamfreely/curiosity-call
Skill Set
I've built web applications, and I'm building one in-fact; well more than one actually.
While I also help to maintain a bespoke WordPress implementation for a small non-profit; I've worked professionally on Drupal and Ruby On Rails projects as well.
I personally prefer to use Python (Django), JavaScript (VueJS) and Linux (Arch/Ubuntu) primarily; I'm a nerd, and this is where music plays the role of exercise in my life.
Strategy being poetree and composition to me; my academic studies brought together Economics, Statistics and Communications – the major/minor of my degree from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities – along with Sociology, Psychology and Anthropology, with a solid side of Eastern Philosophy.
I started as a Creative Writing major; and took over 20 years to graduate.
Oh yea, I'm 42 years old, so not exactly a youngin' either; I've seen a few things.
Everything done needs to have a rhyme and reason, and if it doesn't; there will be a rhyme and reason, and you'll need to find them, and be honest with yourself about them, if you hope to grow.
Especially when it comes to tech, because it is too easy to get overwhelmed.
Not right now doesn't mean not ever; simple steps with specific intention.
That way you nurture seedlings of accomplishments, eventually growing the garden of your digital dreams; which at this point, we're still negotiating our relationship with technology.
Making awareness, and the ability to adapt, that much more important.
Simplicity underlies elegance yielding resilience.
I am not all about the woo-woo, I am about the numbers and the science ...
While holding space for divinity and wonder.
As well, I am a writer, a poet and a musician by love and lore; from this place my conversation, vocabulary and energy are intertwined with contemporary and ancient sciences.
While I was there when one could text a tweet, I played Ultima Online, and used Netscape Navigator – I recorded songs onto tapes from the radio; I too have observed the evolution of technology and business, independently and through a University class called The History of U.S. Electronic Media, as part of my Communications minor.
I also served a stint as a journalist for ColombiaReports.com, and have recently returned to the realm of journalism.
I bring this depth of perspective, curiosity and well-rounded competency, into your world; to serve as tech expertise and maintenance.
I am the full-package, as they say, providing digital solutions derived from an accessible, robust and multi-dimensional process combining business acumen with technological expertise and economic consideration built upon statistical foundations, investigatory senses and a love for felicitious communication – yes I use big words, but they are not inaccessible, for those who love to learn ... well, they are the best for me to serve.
Oh and here's my LinkedIn; I built websites for a few organizations and teach the English and Spanish languages now; while building Exo-CTO, along with DigiSnaxx, and idioki, a small platform for connecting language students and teachers.
Additional Info
I also started writing a guide to living over at https://library.dreamfreely.org, it's like a repository of the guides I'm writing.
Though a phrase that recently arrived into my mind was that simplicity underlies elegance yielding resilience. And just like a people company built around technology, it feels like a cornerstone of what DreamFreely is, though the lesson is rooted in ExoCTO's work.
ExoCTO is where the ethos is most evident; and for a more complete idea of ExoCTO's capabilities beyond web sites and applications, you can check out the ExoCTO BootCamp Booklet:
Canin Carlos
Simplicity underlies elegance yielding resilience.
What does that mean ..?
When something is simple to explain, and simple to comprehend, it becomes easy to convey ... it is easier to share simple ideas, which are like seeds, reducing complexity into something accessible, something one can hold in their hand; and grow into something of their own, if they wish.
When something simple breaks, there are less details to inspect for repair.
A simple form is able to adapt, is able to grow ... because the core remains simple and accessible – where it all begins.
By adhering to the principle of simplicity, complexity gradually becomes more accessible.
Elegance is able to flourish; and resilience becomes built into the fabric of creation.
Simplicity underlies elegance yielding resilience.
