
About Me
Drake LaDue
My technology experience spans 25 years. I started in sales selling database licenses and custom application development and overtime grew into web development and marketing. Business intelligence has always been a passion of mine and finding a more efficient way to accomplish a task or reach an audience is exciting to me. Whether it be through better design, UX(user experience), and/or better process.
1111 Nichols Farm Drive, |
Mobile: +1 (919) 257-3977 |
Education
- Manhattan College – AAS Coursework in Computer Science
- Mercy – AAS Coursework in Computer Science
- Westchester Community College – AAS Coursework in Science
- Durham Tech – AAS Coursework in Computer Science
Kind Words
Tech Skill
- SEO – Structured Data 95%
- Website (design/build) 98%
- Mobile (design/build/responsive/PWA) 98%
- User Experience – Behavior 85%
- Analysis – Business Intelligence 90%
- Google Cloud API and Business Console 90%
- Wordpress 95%
Technology Experience
It has been almost 25 years since I began my career in the tech industry. From 9600 baud dial-up to 100gbts Wi-Fi, 13 channel analog TV to tens of thousands anywhere / anytime / on-demand / live / interactive HD content (amazingly there's still nothing good on TV), stationary rotary phones to hand-held omni-functional mobile devices, and Star Wars fantasy to AI reality - WOW! What an awesome adventure it's been!
Brand X Mobile
Brand X Mobile
Founder
Mobile and Web design, Progressive Web Application Development(PWA), and Multi Channel Marketing Firm. Digital solutions built for the B2B and B2C markets.
Skills:
- Client and Project Management
- Design and Development
- Market/Audience Analysis
- Campaign Deployment and Management
Durham, NC 27703
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Fused180
Partner/Director Sales and Technology
A fully integrated branding and digital marketing company. fused180 assists clients in developing relationships with their customers by keeping them connected through the technologies they use every day.
2011 – 2013
Sales and Marketing
Client and Project Management
Design and Development
Market/Audience Analysis
Campaign Deployment and Management
Standing Stone, Inc
Southeast Account Manager
Clinical Decision Support & EHR
Disease management software with clinical decision support to Hospitals, Cardiology Practices and Multi-specialty Groups. Standing Stone’s applications are used by healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs associated with chronic health conditions.
2010 – 2011
Sales and Marketing
Account Management
Technology Assessment
TVR Communications
Southeast Account Manager
Leading providers of hospital patient entertainment and education systems in the U.S. Company has over 400 installations with a high concentration on the east coast.
2008-2010
Sales and Marketing
Staff and Installation Management
Technology Assessment
Telerent
Multi Dwelling Units(MDU) Department Head
Design, engineering, integration, implementation and operational services for an extensive range of audiovisual, interactive and network systems.
2006 – 2008
Sales and Marketing
Staff and Installation Management
Technology Assessment
Bulk TV
National Sales Management
Commercial and residential content delivery systems
2004 – 2006
Sales and Marketing
Staff and Installation Management
Technology Assessment
Dunn Solutions Group
Southeast Account Manager
Dunn Solutions is a digital commerce and business transformation consultancy focused on delivering velocity to our clients. Velocity is achieved by the combination of both speed and direction. Dunn Solutions helps our clients achieve speed by automating business processes and direction using advanced analytics. Our teams align with organizations to optimize their unique processes and help them discover the most profitable routes to business success.
2002 – 2004
Sales and Marketing
Client and Project Management
Dynamic Distribution Information System
National Sales Manager
DDI System equips distributors with leading edge technology and industry-specific performance. Inform ERP keeps you ahead of customer expectations and engages today’s buyers.
1995 – 2001
Sales and Marketing
Staff and Installation Management
Technology Assessment

Intermediate to Advanced WordPress Designer and Developer
- 6+ years experience with WordPress.
- Advanced understanding of WP’s design and layout parameters – posts, pages, custom post types, and formats.
- Advanced understanding of WP’s installation and management process – parent/child themes(function file customization), installations, updating and management.
- Intermediate working level of WP’s Gutenberg Blocks framework.
- Intermediate working level of WP’s Codex – functions, methods, hooks, and classes.
- Intermediate working level of WP’s plugin and theme development.
- Intermediate to Advanced understanding of third party software and integration process.

Intermediate to Advanced Woocommerce Designer and Developer
- 6+ years experience with Woo.
- Advanced understanding of Woo’s design and layout parameters – shop, products, and categories.
- Advanced understanding of Woo’s installation and management process – customization process(copying Woo templates to a child theme’s file structure), updating and management.
- Intermediate working level of Woo’s Gutenberg Blocks framework.
- Intermediate working level of Woo’s Codex – functions, methods, hooks, and classes.
- Intermediate working level of Woo’s plugin and theme development.
- Intermediate to Advanced understanding of third party software and integration process.

Advanced Mobile Designer and Developer
“No coding experience necessary, the drop and drag user interface makes it easy for anyone to build a mobile website. mobilution.io is cost effective and flexible. Build, manage and create stunning mobile websites in a fraction of the time it takes to convert a website to a mobile site.”
If you’re wondering, mobilution is a mobile website and progressive web app (PWA) drag and drop builder designed and developed by Brand X Mobile. Mobilution’s core blocks – MVC Framework, PHP, SQL, Javascript, JQuery, HTML/5, and CSS.

Advanced Divi Designer - Developer
The Most Popular Premium WordPress Theme In The World
Divi is our flagship theme and visual page builder, and the most widely-used premium WordPress theme in the world according to stats from BuiltWith.com. Divi is more than just a theme, it’s a website building framework that makes it possible to design beautiful websites without ever touching a single line of code and without installing and configuring dozens of disjointed plugins. We think this is the future of WYSIWYG, and it’s unlike any WordPress theme you have used before.
- 5+ years experience with Divi
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services

Advanced Elegant Themes Designer - Builder
Provider of an enterprise suite of drop and drag wordpress themes and tools.
- 5+ years experience with Elegant Themes
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services

Bootstrap Design Studio
- 4+ years experience with Bootstrap
- Own my own bootstrap design studio drop and drag builder
- Optimized CSS
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services

Advanced HTML Developer
- 7+ years experience with HTML/5
- Strong understanding of embedding and handling multimedia objects
- Create and Integrate Progressive Web Apps(PWA)
- Optimization Guru

Intermediate JS Developer
- 3+ years experience with Javascript
- 3+ years experience with JQuery
- 4+ years experience JSON
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services

Advanced CSS Developer
- 7+ years experience with CSS
- CSS Animations
- Optimized CSS
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services

Intermediate PHP Developer
- 3+ years experience with PHP and MySQL
- 3+ years experience with back-end systems
- Strong handling of large XML data
- Integration into third party systems
- Create and Integrate with web services