Casey Houser

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Professional Experience

Software Developer

2023 - Present

  • Functional Racing: Lead Rails developer for FunctionalRacing.com. I write bespoke back-end code for parsing and error checking of .INI files, user logins and dashboards, and data visualization, and custom front-end HTML/CSS for simplicity and color blindness.

Marketer, Content Writer, Technical Writer

2011 - Present, Notable Positions

  • TMC (2013 - 2016): Top contributor of IT articles - WebRTC, cloud, communications
  • Zype (2015): Initial web presence, managed blog, social media - video hosting articles
  • Quora (2017): Created hundreds of Facebook posts summarizing website content
  • VirtualPBX (2018 - 2021): Lead content writer, created marketing collateral and internal documentation - blog posts, technical docs, emails, style guides, and web pages
  • What's in a Phrase? (2022 - Present): Lead writer of fiction analysis newsletter, maintains a regular publishing schedule and has grown its subscriber base

Grant Writer

May - August 2016

  • Water Underground, of Mozambique: Managed a 3-person team to write and research several grants and proposals. Private funding. Reported weekly to the head of WU.

Journalist

Apr. 2012 - Oct. 2014

  • The Inter-Mountain Newspaper (2012 - 2013): Beat encompassed all of West Virginia's Tucker County. Local government; environment; human interest; public events; business.
  • Boothbay Register (2014): Contract writer for the 2014 tourist season. Feature-length stories for daily web and weekly print. Local education; politics; community events.

Magazine Writer

November 2013 - May 2014

  • Wheeling Life, of Wheeling, WV: Feature stories of community groups and education captured parts of the city not shown by other local magazines.

Technical Knowledge

  • Data, reporting: MySQL (Wordpress), SQLite (Rails), MS Office, Google Docs
  • CRM: Salesforce
  • Web: HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Mailchimp, Substack, Zapier
  • Graphics: GIMP, Blender, Vega (plots, graphs)
  • Programming: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C, Javascript, Python

Education

B.A., Psychology and Human Services, Davis and Elkins College, 2007