Our Innovative Founders
Kevin Hadas
Chief Communications Officer
As the Chief Communications Officer of Cartwheel Communications, Mr. Hadas’s experience includes corporate and direct sales, management, recruiting, executing business plans project management and client consulting. He works directly with clients daily to ensure the success of their projects .
Mr. Hadas is a 1997 graduate of Northern Michigan University who currently serves as a City Councilman for the City of Selma (since 2013), the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization representative serving the North East Partnership for Economic Development, and continues to coach youth soccer. Mr. Hadas is considered to be an expert on Search Engine Optimization and Web Presence Management. He has presented to the City of Converse Economic Development Corporation, the Randolph Metro-com Chamber of commerce Monthly Luncheon and other groups on the subject.
Prior to founding the Cartwheel Communications, Mr. Hadas had over 16 years of consulting, advertising sales, circulation, management, sales training, news reporting, editing and opinion writing in the print/electronic/web media industry.
“Kevin is a natural community leader who has a strong drive, excellent communications skills and great ideas. I’m happy to call him a friend.” Selma Mayor Tom Daly
Peter Hughes
Chief IT Officer
With over 25 years of design and development experience, Mr. Hughes is a proven Leader/Project Manager/Web Developer with a strong focus on customer/end user needs. He has a proven track record managing, architecting, developing and expanding high quality, user-friendly corporate and small business Intranet/Internet applications, e-commerce applications and websites, as well as, hardware and software deployments. Mr. Hughes is skilled at team and project management on multiple concurrent projects, fostering a global team environment, and driving innovation in web technologies. He has the ability to develop complex applications from scratch or work within existing frameworks and open source software.
Considered a leader in the web development industry, Mr. Hughes has worked for companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase as a Senior Technology Officer, USAA as a Project Manager, Presage Technologies as a web e-commerce Guru and Hewlett Packard on a project for Disney as a Team Lead/Agile Project Manager.
He possesses a wide-variety of skills and experience, such as:
- Project Management: Rational Unified Process, CMM, Agile, Scrum
- Communication: Public Speaking, Radio Broadcasting, Writing, Video editing
- Information Architecture: Interface Design, Data Classification, User Profiling, Metadata
- Content Management: Joomla, Vignette JSP, Interwoven, OS Commerce, Magento, Wordpress
- E-Commerce: Authorize.net, Linkpoint, yourpayconnect, Paypal (Direct API integration as well as integration with open source software).
- Programming: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL, JSP, Codeigniter, Laravel
- Operating Systems: MS, Sun Solaris, Linux, MacOS
- Networking: Ubiquiti, VOIP
Mr. Hughes was the host of a weekly radio show about computers, the Internet and technology called Technology Bytes for over 22 years. The show was named Best Local Technology Radio Show by the Houston Press in 2000 and Mr. Hughes was named Best Radio Sidekick by the Houston Press in 2001.
