Since the announcements seem to be making the rounds today, I figured it would be a good time to post this little bit of news to my blog: I'm leaving my position in the Archdiocese of St. Louis to pursue another opportunity!
Starting May 2, I'll be working with a great new team of Catholics for flockNote, a service/website for Catholic parishes and organizations to help register individuals and send them, well, "Notes!"
I've been working for the Archdiocese of St. Louis for almost three years, first in the Catholic Youth Apostolate, and for the last year as the Director of Web Development, and it's been a wonderful experience. I'd like to sincerely thank everyone in the Curia of the Archdiocese of St. Louis for some great professional development, wonderful memories, and for being in a very wonderful and Catholic workplace (we had Mass in the building almost every day that I was working there!).
During my time with the Archdiocese, I was privileged to help with the following:
- Rebuilding archstl.org, stlouisreview.com, stlyouth.org, reapteam.org, cycstl.net, and many more websites.
- The announcement and installation of a new Archbishop and a new Bishop.
- The elevation of an Archbishop Emeritus to a Cardinal (hello to Archbishop Burke!).
- Catholic STL - a free iOS app for Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
- Two Catholic New Media Celebrations (San Antonio and Boston).
- CYC ID Cards site (allowing people to order and print their own ID cards online).
It has been an amazing and life-changing experience working for the Archdiocese... and in my personal life I also went through some huge changes: dating, engagement and marriage, building a cool Catholic news App, starting up LOLSaints.com, collaborating with hundreds of other Catholic developers on Open Source Catholic, and doing other amazing things.
And now, I'm going to be working as the Chief Technology Officer for flockNote. flockNote is a service that is (mainly) for Catholic parishes to help them 'connect with their flock.'
In the past 10 years, the trend for many software solutions and services has been a move 'to the cloud.' The same trend is beginning to appear in Church communications, and flockNote will be at the leading edge of communications tools built for parishes (and other Catholic organizations).
flockNote promises to make communication simple and effective. I'll be involved in some really awesome projects right out of the gate—and I'll be heavily involved in Drupal hacking for the first couple months, at least!
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Best of luck and God's blessings to you. I've been following your progress since seminary days. You will do well and go far.
Thanks, Patrick!
Congratulations and thanks for all you do! It is wonderful to have skilled believers like you, Jeff, creating our technology.
Congratulations, Jeff. Sounds like an exciting move. Keep us posted.
Gratz! You moving down here to Arlington then? ;)
Nope! I'll be working from St. Louis :-)
But, I now have more reasons to come visit Texas more often... it's not too far!
Dear Jeff,
We are so happy for your new adventure and at the same time so sad to see to go! Thank you for all the good work you have done for the Archdiocese and for helping us out professionally and presonally whenever we needed advice. We hope to keep in touch with you as our community continues to move into the technological opportunities presented to us as we strive to proclaim the Gospel through our catechetical charism. Many prayers for you and Natalie in this new adventure!!
In the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sister Catherine Marie, Sister Adriane, Sister Teresa, Sister Rose
Thank you, Sisters! It's been great studying with you, praying with you, and working with you for more than three years!
Great news Jeff, I'll be praying for you on this new endeavor
Oooh. Matthew Warner and Jeff Geerling working together. That is one serious brain-trust of New Media Evangelization know-how. Congratulations.
Heh... we're just getting started, too!
Chief Technology Officer! Congratulations!
You guys will do well, and then some! I'm so, so excited to see the developments to come.
Thanks, Carson! I hear I may get to work with you on getting flockNote to work well on an Archdiocesan scale, too! Hope to hear from you soon.
Yes! We're using it to communicate with catechetical leaders across the board. Just give me a call when you'd like to chat. There's a lot of potential within the Diocese of Sacramento.
Auguri!