About · Philip Sneller

A bit about me.

I'm Philip Sneller. I run Sneller & Co, a small consulting and web practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This page is the longer version of the story behind it, in case you want to know who you'd actually be working with.

I split my time between two things: building websites and helping organizations run better. Sneller & Co is the practice that's grown around both.

My background isn't a straight line. I came up through multi-unit restaurant operations, where I learned pretty quickly that the difference between a smooth Friday and a disaster is usually whether somebody wrote things down. After that, I worked in freight and logistics, which is the same lesson in a different industry. The businesses that scale are the ones that built systems for the boring parts so they had bandwidth for the urgent ones.

Alongside all of that, I'd been building websites and digital tools for years. It started as a hobby. Then it became something I did for the operations teams I was working with, who needed real systems instead of the cobbled-together spreadsheets they'd been making do with. Eventually it stopped making sense to keep the two sides of my work separate, which is how Sneller & Co ended up existing.

Today the practice does two things. Web development: custom sites, WordPress builds, full-stack applications, and the ongoing care that comes after launch. And operations consulting: helping organizations work through the messy parts of running a business. Documentation, processes, data systems, compliance, and the kind of communications that keep boards and donors and executives in the loop.

01

I work like a partner

I take responsibility for the details and the outcomes, and I tend to stay reachable for a long time after the work is done. I'd rather have a few clients I know well than a long list I don't.

02

I've done the job

A lot of my clients are operators, and I think they can tell pretty quickly that I've sat in their chair. I've run shifts, managed vendors, and explained budgets to boards.

03

I leave things working

Whether it's a website, a process library, or a data system, I build it with the assumption that someone other than me will need to run it eventually. Documentation is part of every deliverable.

I keep the client list small on purpose. Usually two or three active engagements at a time. I'd rather be the right partner for a handful of organizations than a passable vendor for a lot of them. Right now I'm the web and digital consultant for Compassion Community Care Center (C4) in Chattanooga, and selectively available for new work.

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. The decision to hire someone like me is mostly a decision about who you want to actually be doing the work, and I'd want you to think hard about that part before reaching out.

Philip Sneller Founder · Sneller & Co · Chattanooga, TN

A short resume

A rough timeline of where I've worked and what I've learned from each piece. The order matters less than the fact that every chapter feeds the one after it.

2024 to PresentChattanooga, TN
Founder & Principal Consultant
Sneller & Co
Running Sneller & Co as a small, deliberate practice. About half web and half consulting. Currently serving as the web and digital consultant for Compassion Community Care Center (C4), and keeping capacity tight at two or three active engagements at a time.
Multi-YearHospitality · Multi-Unit
Multi-Unit Restaurant Operations
Hospitality Operations Leadership
Operations leadership across multiple restaurant locations: labor, inventory, vendors, compliance, and the daily work of keeping front-of-house and back-of-house in sync. This is where I learned that scaling a business depends a lot more on what gets written down than on who's running the floor that night.
Multi-YearFreight · Transportation
Freight & Logistics Operations
Transportation & Compliance
Spent time inside the thin margins of the freight industry: dispatch workflows, DOT and OSHA compliance, driver onboarding, and the kind of vendor and insurance documentation that nobody talks about until it's missing. The boring parts turned out to be the parts that paid.
Multi-YearEvents · Production
Event Management & Production
Hospitality & Event Operations
Ran event operations end to end: vendor coordination, run-of-show, contingencies, and the habit of walking a venue twice before anyone arrives. There's not much margin in the event business, so I got pretty comfortable with planning for what could go wrong before it did.
OngoingWeb Development
Independent Web Developer
Custom Sites · WordPress · Full-Stack
Building websites and digital systems on the side for years. First as a hobby, then as a service for the people I was working with. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, React, and a lot of patience for writing code I'd be willing to come back to a year later.

Technologies, Platforms & Tools

HTML5 / CSS3 JavaScript PHP MySQL WordPress WooCommerce Elementor React Node.js REST APIs Git / GitHub Google Workspace Microsoft Office Excel / Sheets cPanel / WHM Figma Google Analytics SEO Optimization CRM Platforms POS Systems

Think we might be a fit?

Tell me what you're working on. I'll be honest about whether I think I can help, and if I can't, I usually know someone who can.