About Hoofprints Consulting

Hoofprints Consulting is a woman-owned business run from beautiful rural Montgomery County, Maryland, just a stone's throw from Washington, DC and Baltimore. We bring both long years of experience on the Internet and an exceptional educational background to this business. Our affiliation with a wide array of associates, including top end designers (both print and web), flash developers, programmers, usability experts, and search engine optimization experts allows us to provide you with both very good advice and top notch web services. For multi-lingual web site services, please visit our partner site Language Works.

Why hoofprints?

Illustration by Francine D'Antuono

Our inspiration comes from a goat. Yes, a goat... but folks this is not just any goat.

Anyone who has witnessed the incredible persistence, intelligence, charm, charisma, obnoxious determination, single-minded tenacity, inventiveness, and self-asserted "me"-ness of our associate Mr. Newman Goat will understand that he is the perfect model for a CEO. Or a web developer. We're just following in his hoofprints.

About the Principal

Anne Shroeder is an Internet professional with over 18 years’ experience in the computer industry. She consults with a wide variety of non profit organizations and small businesses on web site optimization, back end site development, site architecture improvement, and end-to-end site development. She also teaches professional web development at Montgomery College.

Ms. Shroeder has worked as a full time webmaster for non profit organizations, including Conservation International and the Internet Society, and has developed web sites for a wide variety of organizations. Her clients have included development organizations (International Women’s Media Foundation, the Panos Institute of the Caribbean, Island Resources Foundation, The World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, World Space Foundation), small non profit agencies (Interages, St. John’s Catholic Church, Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maryland & Environs, Sled Dog Action Coalition), government agencies (Montgomery County Conservation Corps, National Institute of Standards and Technology), as well as several small business enterprises. Her sub-contract work with Swim Design includes back end development of sites for the Equal Rights Center, Folger Shakespeare Museum, Alma College, and Jersey City Museum. Her sub-contract work with Digital Division includes back end site development for Voice of America.

Originally trained as a linguist, she knows Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Portuguese, and has developed web sites in Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, and Haitian Kreyol. She holds a Bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) from Yale University in Arabic and a Master's degree from University of Michigan in Arabic, and Linguistics. She has also studied at the Alliance Française of Paris, the University of Bonn, Germany, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Member of International Webmaster's Association/HTML Writers Guild, DC Web Women