Who?

JobSiteVisitor.com was founded by, Brian Sweeney, and like many entrepreneurial ventures, I couldn’t have done it without my supportive wife, Megan. I’m originally from Colorado, I attended the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Civil Engineering School, then worked as a Project Engineer, Ast. Superintendent, and Project Manager for large commercial construction companies.  After 5 years of working for General Contractors I realized my passion for construction photography and started what is now JobSiteVisitor.com.

What?

JobSiteVisitor.com is a construction photography website that hosts job site progress photos. We’ve developed a Web 2.0 platform that manages, organizes, and shares progress photos in a way that the construction industry wants to view them. Each week someone at the job site goes out and takes progress photos from the same locations. Typically most larger projects already have someone doing this. Instead of saving the photos to company hard-drives, they upload and tag the photos with date and location information to our site. Projects have complete control over the site and the content. There are no expensive web-developers, photographers, or web-cams. It’s easy to do and all you need is an Internet connection and a digital camera to get started.

When?

JobSiteVisitor.com has been a long time in the making. The concept was developed while building a new high school in South Central LA of all places. Digital cameras had just come out and photos were stored on 3.5″ – 1.44MB floppy disks that you inserted into cameras. It was during this project when I developed a love for taking time-lapse progress photos. My girlfriend at the time, now wife, and I left LA and moved to Denver were we started a production company called Alpine Light Pictures, Inc. in 2005. Megan focused on video while I worked on my construction photography. I landed a few clients and was taking photos and inserting them individually into my original site that organized the photos by week and location.  As I talked to more clients many of them liked the idea but were not interested in paying a photographer to do all this work when they already had employees in charge of taking progress photos. So in 2007 I began developing this do-it-yourself service now known as JobSiteVisitor.com. Using current customers during our “Beta” testing the service was finally turned on to the public in November 2008.

Where?

In true entrepreneurial fassion, JobSiteVisitor.com was started and currently is opperated out our home in Denver. You can rest assure, all the important stuff is securly stored in a data storage facility.

Why?

Basically, I saw that the construction industry needed this service. Too many progress photos were ending up on hard-drives taking up space where they weren’t utilize to track and monitor progress. Now projects can upload their own plans, pick the points where they’re going to take photos from, and upload photos without the high cost of alternative services. We’ve brought the technology to you in afordable packages to meet your projects needs and budget. Best of all it’s all built on an easy do-it-yourself social platform that can be managed by anyone that can surf the interent.

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