About Francesco Sanfilippo

Francesco is the founder of Blackcoil Productions and a leading web developer specializing in ASP.NET web applications, SQL databases, and web design with CSS and XHTML. He created his first web site in 1995 and has been an Internet entrepreneur for the past ten years.

In 1997, he created Photorealm, a travel community featuring blogs, message boards, travel guides, and photo galleries. Photorealm enabled travelers to share stories and photos from Internet cafes around the world and was one of the first blogging sites on the Internet.

From 1999 to 2004, Francesco led development of learning management systems at InContact Systems. He built the first LMS for Banfield Pet Hospital enabling medical professionals to study and test for certifications from work or home. Francesco also developed similar systems for the American Council on Exercise, Club One Fitness, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

In 2004, Francesco developed URL123, an advanced link shortening service. URL123 now has thousands of members and handles millions of clicks every month.

For most of 2005, Francesco led development of the Convenia Load card funding service for the credit card industry. The application was released to more than 40 card programs in October 2005.

Other projects in 2005 included upgrading the Ohio Department of Health child vaccination registry to ASP.NET 2.0, and building the database and application architecture for ImageKind.

So far in 2006, Francesco has worked on a handful of small projects across the country, while spending most of his time working on some of his own ideas and sites that have been neglected for far too long. He is always looking for exciting new projects to work on, so feel free to Email Francesco if you have a .NET project in need of assistance.

Francesco has been nominated to the ASP Elite and ASP Insiders, ranking him with the world's best .NET developers, authors and experts.