Bio
Dave is the Associate Director of Web Application Development at Grand Valley State University. He has been providing technical direction and oversight of university web operations for over 18 years. He ensures design and development of custom web applications align with the strategic goals of the organization. Dave leads, manages, and mentors a talented team of web developers, designers, and student workers to deliver custom web applications that provide value to the faculty, staff, and students of the university.
My Talks
SEO in 2019
Factors for gaining more visitors from organic search are always changing. I'll run through 7 elements of SEO you can implement easily today that will set you on the right path for increasing traff...
Tracking Low Energy Bluetooth Devices
How secure is your location while using a fitness tracker? One overlooked security issue is how wearables emit a persistent low energy Bluetooth signal exposing the device’s MAC address allowing an...
Twitter Data Mining for Brand Sentiment
In this talk, I'll show you how to quickly set up packages and API's in R so you can start exploring large data sets from Twitter. I'll walk through how to interpret data to better understand senti...
Your homepage sucks and it’s your fault
If the homepage of your organization has been around a while there is a temptation to want to change it, because “it’s been around a while.” I'll talk about 5 research-based techniques to evaluate ...