Joel G.

Joel G.

Greater Chicago Area
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I’ve spent the last two decades building, automating, and rescuing WordPress sites —…

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Experience

  • American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Graphic

    American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP)

    Park Ridge, IL

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    Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States

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    United States

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    Chicago, Illinois, United States

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    Greater Chicago Area

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    Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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    Hinsdale, Illinois, United States

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    Palmer Lake, Colorado, United States

Volunteer Experience

  • Fuel International Graphic

    Website Coordinator

    Fuel International

    - 7 years 8 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Fuel International is a non-profit volunteer humanitarian aid organization.

    I traveled to 22 countries on 5 continents helping with humanitarian aid relief projects for the 8.5 years I volunteered at Fuel.

    I did both on site media coverage and website management from the office while a full-time volunteer.

  • Website Developer

    Chicagoland Babywearing

    - 5 years

    Children

    Chicagoland Babywearing is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to teaching caregivers the benefits of babywearing.

    I develop and ran a website for the non-profit that featured an events page (in-person & online), online donations, a web shop, organizational blog, staff gallery, and more.

Projects

  • CraftLiquids.com

    What is Craft Liquid? Breweries, Cideries, Distilleries, Wineries, and more.

    CraftLiquids.com is a premium interactive beverage directory that helps craft liquid fans connect with producers with the aim of letting them drink at the source.

    Formerly known as the BreweryFinder.org & Brewery.Work.

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  • LG Electronics US Consumer Advisory Panel Member

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    I've had the pleasure of working with LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc in Englewood Cliffs, NJ for the last couple of years as a member of their US Consumer Advisory Panel Member giving feedback on product ideas, innovations, marketing messaging, and more. This experience has meant meetings via Zoom, as well as in person at their regional office in Buffalo Grove, IL & at their US HQ in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. It has been an amazing experience working with the team at LGE and I hope it continues.

  • NOW Art - 360° public art agency based in Los Angeles

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    I worked with Rob's amazing design direction and functional feedback from Carmen on this new site for the agency and built it from the ground up using Elementor, Dreamweaver, and some custom PHP plugins.

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  • Brewery.Work

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    Jobs directory and Facebook group for networking and sharing job openings.

  • BreweryFinder.org

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    Hand-build global brewery directory connecting beer drinkers to local producers.

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  • Daddy's Grounded chats with Director & Co-Producer of Netflix's "The Starling"

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    I was lucky enough to be part of a media call with Ted Melfi (Director of "The Starling") & Kimberly Quinn (Actor/Co-Producer of "The Starling"). Here is my question to them about casting the movie and their answer.

  • $287,764 Kickstarter Project - Five Iron Frenzy

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    This second go around with Five Iron Frenzy and Kickstarter proved to be even more successful than the first. We ended "Our Newest Kickstarter Ever" project with 5,205 backers that pledged $287,764 to get another new album (and various physical/digital goodies) from the band in 2021.

    My crowdfunding campaign responsibilities included some WordPress based website work, Twitter social media management, email communications, pledge level consulting, and digital goods distribution.

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  • Speak Your Migraine

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    #SpeakYourMigraine was a global initiative sponsored by Amgen and Novartis to raise awareness of the total impact of migraine. I was able to be part of two commercial campaigns, a series of speaking engagements, and do some content creation around the initiative over a period of two years.

  • $66K - "Vox Populi" by Sean Astin Kickstarter

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    I was able to work with Sean Astin and Leah Cevoli as a consultant on their Kickstarter campaign to raise money for running a second season of Sean's radio show "Vox Populi: Voice of the 'Occasionally Interested' People."

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  • $208K - Five Iron Frenzy Kickstarter

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    Worked with the members of Five Iron Frenzy on a Kickstarter Campaign that raised $208,000 in 60 days for the band to put together a new album and do some tour dates. The first $30,000 was raised in 54 minutes. We passed $100,000 in less than 48 hours. This project proves that social media done right can be an effective fundraising medium.

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  • "10,000 Days" Web Series Social Media Build

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    I was part of the social media team that helped get the initial fan support for this web series built. We had a 30 day run and passed 10,000K followers in that first campaign. It was more successful that we hoped.

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  • Current Year Shortcode Copyright WP Plugin

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    A simple plugin to help keep your website's copyright current every year.

    https://github.com/joelgratcyk/Current-Year-Shortcode-Copyright-WP-Plugin

  • Current Year Shortcode WordPress Plugin

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    The Current Year Shortcode plugin adds a simple shortcode [year] to WordPress, allowing you to easily display the current year anywhere in your posts, pages, or widgets.

  • Job Region Tag from Geolocation County US

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    This plugin automatically adds a _job_region tag to job_listing posts based on their geolocation_county meta value, but only for job listings in the US.

  • Joel's Custom WordPress Dashboard Widget

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    Easy way to add a custom widget in your WordPress Dashboard.

  • Lat Long to What3Words Map URL WP Plugin

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    This WordPress plugin automatically converts geolocation data to a What3Words address for WP Job Manager location posts.

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  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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