I am in charge of 70+ web sites at Newark Public Schools, NJ’s largest school district with over 40,000 students.

I am replacing a closed-source vendor solution for our web sites with WordPress. In the process, I’ve cut our budget in half and have built a web application framework on top of WordPress that all public school districts need to adopt.

I would like to present this work, the trials, problems and solutions my team and WordPress development vendors have run into.

I’m an old-school web guy and have designed/built large community-oriented web sites for the U.S. Army, Teach for America, the World Economic Forum, aSmallWorld, large e-commerce companies, and U.S. presidential campaigns.