About Corey Ehmke

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Professional Bio

I'm a dedicated technologist and architect with 16 years of professional experience in web development. I've worked with just about every web technology out there, from Java to WebObjects to ASP to PHP to LAMP, but my favorite by far is Ruby on Rails.

I currently serve as Chief Solutions Architect for SEO Logic, working to revolutionize the world of search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). Our focus is on Fortune 1000 companies with franchises or large field networks.

I started my first consulting business, Idol Hands Design, in Austin, Texas back in the early 90's. Too early for the rest of the world to be interested in web design or development, Idol Hands initially provided freelance graphic design and multimedia services to local businesses and non-profit organizations. When the web revolution caught fire, I was ready. I built my first web site in 1993— before graphical web browsers were even popular. As my skills and career developed, I spent less time pursuing freelance work through Idol Hands and concentrated more on my day job as a technology professional, first with the educational publisher Houghton Mifflin and later with the advertising giant Publicis Groupe.

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Over the years I've created web sites and applications for organizations ranging from local businesses and non-profits to major organizations including:


I've also worked directly in industry partnerships with Adobe, Apple, and Quark, and devoted off-hours development effort to a variety of Open Source projects.

See my LinkedIn Profile for more career details. If you're interested in hiring SEO Logic to take on your next project, please contact me.

Personal Profile

I have a tendency to adopt disposable hobbies, diving deep into anything that catches my attention and learning all I can about it for a period of months before moving on. The list includes electronics (including robotics and working with programmable microcontrollers like Arduino), creating music in my home studio (released under the name Dust and a Shadow), taking pictures, restoring my 1930s Tudor-style house, writing, drawing, cartooning, digital art, artificial intelligence, and yoga.

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I'm always reading at least three books at a time: one fiction, one nonfiction, one technical. My taste in fiction tends to late 19th and early 20th century horror and weird fiction, but there are some modern exceptions (including Thomas Pynchon, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Handler, and Clive Barker). If you're interested, you can see what I'm currently reading.

In July of 2007 I published my first book through Blurb. It's called Kehr Wieder, and is a photo journal of an amazing trip I made with my grandmother last year to see her home town in Poland for the first time since World War II. I'm also planning to put out a series of books of photographs I've taken of cemeteries around the world sometime in the near future.