By day (and frankly, by night as well), I'm the Director of Technology for the I Do Foundation, a non-profit company based in Philadelphia. We're dedicated to bringing an aspect of charitable giving to the wedding industry. The funny thing is, I'm the only one who's actually married.

<marketspeak> Engaged couples represent a significant source of revenue from a variety of service companies, such as department stores, jewelry stores, and invitation printers (what is the word for this? Stationers?). With this concentrated revenue comes enormous influence, and a great potential for philanthropy. Currently, these couples lack a structured marketplace in which they can turn their wedding dollars into charitable donations. Put simply, couples who wish to harness their weddings for charity have no venue in which to do so.

The I Do Foundation is building an online marketplace in which we connect couples who wish to begin a lifetime of philanthropy with the wedding service providers that wish to serve them. By attracting couples to the idea of philanthropy, and tracking their wedding-related purchases (and those of their guests), we enable the couples to turn their significant financial influence into charitable donations. As any marketplace must effectively deliver information to all participants, a detailed object-oriented database describing stores, couples, and nonprofits forms the core of our system. By joining the couples with the stores that best meet their needs (including their philanthropic needs), we fulfill the need for a mechanism for creating philanthropic weddings.
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What does the Director of Technology do for a company that's only got about five people in it? Pretty much everything. Don't get me wrong - the other folks work very hard, building relationships, signing partners, etc. And those partnerships are our business. But I'm fairly proud of the IDF site, because it's pretty much all mine. I've been the only full-time tech worker on the entire project, but several interns and part-timers have put in huge pieces, so I don't want to take all the credit.

I am also available for part time and project based consulting work, because the rewards for working in the non profit world do not include gigantic salaries. Please feel free to view my resume.