Summary
Fredric Mitchell is a Principal and founder of Bright Plum with 12+ years focused on rescuing enterprise Drupal and WordPress implementations for higher education, healthcare, government and large non-profits. He combines hands-on engineering and solutions architecture with white-glove service, guaranteeing rapid response, security-patch compliance and an average 40% reduction in CMS maintenance costs within 90 days. His resume spans product leadership, agency management and technical roles at Phase2, Orbit Media and university IT teams, giving him rare fluency in both operational workflows and platform engineering. Notably, he’s delivered zero security breaches across his client portfolio while driving 100% WCAG compliance on accessibility projects. Based in Flossmoor, IL, he still does freelance Drupal development and personally audits vendor relationships to help mission-driven teams stop losing time and credibility to unreliable partners.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis