Joe Martinez, VP of Technology
Joe Martinez is responsible for the technology that powers the eLayaway platform. Joe has extensive experience in development, service delivery and support of high traffic web sites.
After graduating from Florida State University, Joe began consulting for many large corporate clients including the State of Florida. He later took a position with the State of Florida as the director of the state's official portal -- MyFlorida.com. At MyFlorida, Joe eliminated over 300K in recurring licensing expense by doing a complete rewrite of the MyFlorida platform, which is still in operation today.
Also while at MyFlorida, Joe served as a consultant on many high publicity projects like the PeopleFirst statewide HR system. Joe developed Governor Bush's web infrastructure and Governor Crist's transition site and current web site.
Joe is an avid technology enthusiast, active in the open source community. He's served as technical review on several I.T. books as well as numerous publications. His hobbies include writing about himself in the third person and making perfect strangers cry via XBox Live.
