Joe brings 25+ years of experience in software development and has led successful projects for several large organizations, including the Air Force, AT&T, Kaiser Permanente, Dell, 3M, JCPenny, and the State of Texas. Joe's roles on projects range from developer to dev lead to team lead.
As a recognized leader in hiring, retaining, and managing high performing software development teams, Joe has been quoted in Forbes, Inc., CIO, InformationWeek, Network World, IT World, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, Reader's Digest, The Seattle Times, and more.
Joe graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas in 1991. His development skills have changed to keep pace with the market, going from SAS in the early 1990s, to classic ASP in the late 1990s, and to C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server in this century. His latest favorite project tools are C#, ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (ES2015+), webpack, VueJS, React, Dapper, AutoFac, NUnit, Moq, and Jest. Joe's also been using Azure DevOps, Git/GitHub, Azure, Kanban Flow, and Slack to manage local and remote dev teams.
Joe spends his free time with his wife, Darien, and three children. He also enjoys spending time outside hiking, biking, and fishing.
Darien Wilson
Co-Founder and Director
Volare is the second company Joe and Darien have co-founded. Volare is Darien's next venture after seven years as President of ZoloWear, Inc. With a passion for babywearing and a knack for marketing, Darien started ZoloWear at her kitchen table and cultivated it into to an internationally recognized brand.
Darien and Joe met at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where Darien graduated with a slightly higher GPA than Joe.
Communities
We participate in several communities in Denver and Colorado Springs in the United States and in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.
Microsoft Partner
Our Microsoft partnership is an outward demonstration of our skills and expertise with the tools in the Microsoft developer stack.