Current status: happily and profitably employed

My current position is Web Infrastructure Manager at Top Floor Technologies in New Berlin, Wisconsin. I am managing website hosting and contract systems administration, back-end programming, and application development. Top Floor focuses on B2B websites (with some B2C), SEO and SEM contracts, and electronic marketing. Contact me there for more information. I don’t do sales, project management, or customer service (yes, I like this job!) but I do support nearly a dozen talented people who provide those customer-centric services, and I would be thrilled to introduce you to them.

I also support projects and services at Quintessential Mischief LLC, my wife’s company. Talk to her about web strategy, search optimization, usability, accessability, and social media. I highly recommend her on objective (as well as subjective) terms. She fights for the user.

Under extremely rare circumstances, I may be available for consultation about your project. My résumé is available online and you can email me.

rob@version2beta.com - or -
tweet at @version2beta - or -
just call me, 414-678-1822.


  1. MODX is a competent PHP-based Content Management System (“CMS”) plus Application Framework (“AF”). As an organization, MODX Systems LLC has been growing quickly, especially in the last two years, following a “commercial open source” business model. I’ve been developing in MODX since 2007.  

  2. PHP is perhaps the most popular and widespread server-side scripting language for building dynamic web sites. Many people can write PHP, some of them can write it well.  

  3. MySQL is a database engine — more specifically a relational database management system (“RDBMS”) — that is typically available without cost and is widely used in web development. MySQL and MySQL Enterprise are products of Oracle.  

  4. Python is a general purpose high level programming language, often used to develop networked applications, and protected by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.  

  5. PostgreSQL, often just called Postgres, is an Object Relational Database Management System (“ORDBMS”) widely used in commercial and open source application development, released under an MIT-style open source license, and protected by the non-profit PostgreSQL Global Development Group.  

  6. Tryton is an open source enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) development platform, written in Python and running against a PostgreSQL database. The Tryton community is in the process of forming the Tryton Software Foundation to protect the free and open nature of the project.  

  7. Django is an open source web application framework written in Python and running against a PostgreSQL or other open source database. The non-profit Django Software Foundation has been formed to promote, support, and advance the Django web framework project.  

  8. Flask is a Python-based, open source microframework for developing web applications. It can be used independently, or in conjunction with various databases and object-relational mapping applications such as Django and Tryton.  

  9. Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python that can be used to create other programs (especially networked programs) efficiently and securely.