Shane Barron

My story

Forty years, one habit.

Write down what good looks like. Build to it. Check it before you call it done. Here is where that habit came from and where it went.

Forty years ago

I start writing code

I wrote my first programs forty years ago, and I have not stopped since.

An old home computer glowing on a desk

2002 to 2005

Quality Assurance Manager, Premium Leisure Spas

I set the quality standards for the plant, wrote the standard procedures and ran the inspection system.

2005 to 2008

Quality Assurance Manager, Tatum Manufacturing

ISO 9000 at 99 percent compliance. I managed the inspectors, auditors and document control.

A clean manufacturing floor at dawn

2008

I start building on Elgg

Open source software for social networks became my first software business.

2009 to 2014

ElggDesign

A store of more than forty Elgg themes, from free entry themes to premium ones.

2015

SocialApparatus

My own framework for community sites, built in PHP and MySQL on Bootstrap. My Elgg plugins pass 3,500 downloads.

2023 to 2026

Director of IT and Marketing, Danielle Fence

I ran the company's technology and its marketing from Mulberry, Florida.

2025 to 2026

Pneuma and Phoros

I build two AI partners and the Vision system they run on.

Now

sbarron.com and cwick.us

I build websites and apps for businesses and for agencies to sell under their own name, from Dover, Florida.

Need something built?

The work I do now lives on sbarron.com for custom builds and agencies, and on cwick.us for fixed prices from $100.