I have taken the step from employee to entrepreneur. As Principal and Vice President of Development, I am responsible for a portion of the day-to-day business operations (along with my business partner) as well as driving multiple simultaneous software projects through their development lifecycle.As a Principal of the business, the company's best interests are at the forefront of all I do. I work to seek out and secure new clients, foster and retain current clients, develop employee and subcontractor relationships, coordinate project contracts and invoicing, work with local, state, and federal services to conform with business regulations, and take our mascot, Maggie the Doberman, for walks.As CTO, my objective is to provide the best technological solutions to fit our clients' needs. I focus primarily on full-stack (CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL) application development. Whether I am taking the role as lead developer of a project or managing sub-contractors or employees, I always strive to achieve the best possible balance between front-end user experience, back-end administration, application maintenance, and client requests.