Carter Raines, Director of Technology

Carter has a decade of experience in all aspects of IT enterprise system design, programming, staffing and management. Before joining PrepFire, Carter was the Branch Chief of Product Development, Web Analytics and Search for GSA’s USA.gov Technologies, where he lead product research and development efforts for high profile e-Gov projects like USA.gov and USASearch.gov, the U.S. Government's official search portal.  Prior to his time at GSA, Carter was the Deputy Director of Application Development for the US Department of Commerce, managing all development, deployment, and operations of their CMS, DRM and financial management applications for 3500 users in over 150 countries worldwide.  Carter began his career in the private sector as a programmer, building web based database applications for government clients.  Carter holds a B.S. in Computer Science from West Virginia University, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).