I’m a WordPress web developer with 18 years of hands-on experience building, redesigning, maintaining, and launching production-ready WordPress websites and PHP/MySQL web applications. I specialize in turning approved content, brand direction, and business requirements into responsive pages, reusable layouts, and polished user interfaces. I’m also experienced with custom WordPress theme and page-builder development (including Divi and Elementor), performance and technical SEO, staging-to-production workflows, and thorough QA (responsive behavior, cross-browser compatibility, forms, redirects, and analytics). On top of that, I build and maintain integrations and REST API workflows using PHP/JSON/webhooks, and I troubleshoot real-world production issues across plugins, themes, JavaScript/CSS, MySQL, webhooks, payments, and hosting environments.

Michael Basia

I’m a WordPress web developer with 18 years of hands-on experience building, redesigning, maintaining, and launching production-ready WordPress websites and PHP/MySQL web applications. I specialize in turning approved content, brand direction, and business requirements into responsive pages, reusable layouts, and polished user interfaces. I’m also experienced with custom WordPress theme and page-builder development (including Divi and Elementor), performance and technical SEO, staging-to-production workflows, and thorough QA (responsive behavior, cross-browser compatibility, forms, redirects, and analytics). On top of that, I build and maintain integrations and REST API workflows using PHP/JSON/webhooks, and I troubleshoot real-world production issues across plugins, themes, JavaScript/CSS, MySQL, webhooks, payments, and hosting environments.

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I’m a WordPress web developer with 18 years of hands-on experience building, redesigning, maintaining, and launching production-ready WordPress websites and PHP/MySQL web applications. I specialize in turning approved content, brand direction, and business requirements into responsive pages, reusable layouts, and polished user interfaces.

I’m also experienced with custom WordPress theme and page-builder development (including Divi and Elementor), performance and technical SEO, staging-to-production workflows, and thorough QA (responsive behavior, cross-browser compatibility, forms, redirects, and analytics). On top of that, I build and maintain integrations and REST API workflows using PHP/JSON/webhooks, and I troubleshoot real-world production issues across plugins, themes, JavaScript/CSS, MySQL, webhooks, payments, and hosting environments.

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Work Experience

Managing Partner / CTO at National Online Insurance School
January 1, 2008 - Present
Architected, developed, redesigned, and maintained a nationwide production WordPress and PHP/MySQL platform supporting online insurance education, enrollment, payments, partner workflows, analytics, and regulatory reporting. Managed website projects end-to-end including requirements, sitemap planning, content organization, page structure, responsive QA, staging, launch, and ongoing maintenance. Built and customized WordPress themes/templates, reusable sections, landing pages, and UI components using Divi, Elementor, Gutenberg, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Roots Sage, and Blade. Implemented responsive layouts across devices with refinement of typography, spacing, navigation, hierarchy, CTAs, and interface details. Managed staging-to-production workflow including URL changes, redirects, SSL/DNS/hosting configuration, and post-launch verification. Performed comprehensive website QA covering responsive behavior, cross-browser compatibility, navigation, forms, links, redirects, ana
Licensing Manager at Health Benefits Direct Corporation
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2008
Managed corporate and insurance-agent licensing operations nationwide. Coordinated multi-state regulatory requirements, licensing processes, and agent onboarding.
Customer Service Manager at Health Benefits Direct Corporation
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2006
Managed and trained customer service representatives supporting a national customer base. Oversaw service operations, employee performance, and customer issue resolution.
Sales Representative at Kloot Marketing
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2005
Supported customer acquisition, sales, and account retention. Recognized for strong sales and customer retention performance.
Sales Representative at Klout Marketing
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2005
Worked in customer acquisition, sales, and account retention. Recognized for strong sales and customer retention performance.

Education

Bachelor of Liberal Arts at Indiana University
January 1, 2004 - September 7, 2026
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Dean’s List; GPA 3.75) at Indian a University
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2004
Bachelor of Liberal Arts at Indian a University
January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Bachelor of Liberal Arts at Indian a University
January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004
Bachelor of Liberal Arts at Indian a University
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2004

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Industry Experience

Education, Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare