Developer + Builder

John F.
Morton

John F. Morton

👋 It's me, John.

Sites, apps, and solutions built with code, creativity, AI, and an eye for detail.

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John F. Morton

Hi. 👋 It's me, John.

About

Background

I'm a full-stack developer and product builder. I began in advertising — junior art director to creative director at agencies including DDB, Bozell, and Dentsu. I started building projects on the side while still at agencies, fell in love with the process, and decided to do it full time.

That became JMX2, a digital production company I co-founded and ran for nearly seventeen years, delivering web apps, campaigns, and interactive work for a wide range of clients—from startups to enterprise— including Salesforce, Google, and Procore. Some of my client relationships have lasted over a decade.

I now work independently, building my own products and collaborating on new projects. I've gone deep on AI-integrated development. I won first place in my first hackathon out of nearly 10,000 participants, and both that project and my second entry are in production.

I also maintain several Craft CMS plugins, write regularly on SuperGeekery, and serve as an elected voter registrar in Warren, Connecticut.

Services

What I Focus On

Full-stack development

I build frontend and backend as one coherent system — from data model to UI to deployment — and I maintain what I ship.

Performance and accessibility

I treat speed and accessibility as fundamentals, not afterthoughts. If a site or app is slow or unusable, I fix it.

Tools that solve real problems

I build plugins, apps, and internal tools when I see friction in a workflow — for my clients, for other developers, and for myself.

AI-integrated development

I use AI to accelerate how I build and I build products that use AI structurally — from browser automation to text-to-speech to LLM-ready content delivery.

Portfolio

Selected Work

Products I've built, clients I've worked with, and tools I've shipped.

Deploy Verify

Built an AI-first post-deployment verification tool that uses browser automation to test whether a live site actually works for users — not just whether the build passed.

Laravel, Amazon Nova Act, Amazon Bedrock

Upload Drive-In

Built a file collection app that lets businesses receive uploads directly into their existing cloud storage — clean drag-and-drop for the sender, organized files in Google Drive or an S3-compatible storage drive.

Laravel, OAuth 2.0, Google Drive API, JavaScript

Salesforce AppExchange

Sixteen years as an embedded development partner for Salesforce’s AppExchange team — building hundreds of pages and apps, then creating the page-builder tools that let their marketing team ship independently.

Vue, TypeScript, Laravel, GSAP, JavaScript, Heroku

Long-Term Craft CMS Partnerships

Ongoing development, infrastructure, and support for three Craft CMS clients — the Betsy Lehman Center, Janson Media, and Seal-a-Deck — with integrations including FileMaker, Tipalti, and HubSpot.

Bespoken

A Craft CMS plugin that adds AI-generated text-to-speech narration using the ElevenLabs API, with a companion accessible audio player web component.

LLM Ready

A Craft CMS plugin that serves clean Markdown versions of your content to AI crawlers and LLMs — zero configuration, append .md to any URL.

TRMNL plugin: Metro North Status

A plugin and custom API for the TRMNL e-ink terminal that displays upcoming Metro North departures, including trips with transfers.

PNC Bank — Accessibility Audit

Accessibility audit and remediation for the PNC Real Estate Newsfeed. Found issues beyond the original assessment, proposed a comprehensive audit, and fixed everything without changing the site’s visual identity.

Jerome L. Greene Science Center Installation

Part of a large team building the interactive lobby installation for Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Built the touchscreen interfaces and created the animation system the design team used to build the rest of the experience.

Slow website no more

Performance rescue for a Craft CMS site where pages were timing out. Diagnosed and fixed every bottleneck — PageSpeed scores went from the teens to 97.

Etcetera

Tools I built and shared, community projects, and the advertising career that came before all of this — including Craft Link List, Pic Puller, Procore’s brand standards site, and a series of TV spots with Sting.

Contact

Let’s build something.

Have a project to bring to life? A problem you need a tech-obsessed person to fix? I’d love to hear from you.

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