Matt Emma, 26, worked his way through college as a website developer for nightclubs. Three years after graduating from college, he never dreamed his skills would help Turner Construction Co. meet its schedule for the nearly $1-billion overhaul of Madison Square Garden in New York City.
In 2011, with time running down on the arena's scheduled opening for the 2013 sports season, Emma's manager at Turner asked him to devise a way to make the projects' field operations paperless. Six months, many weekends and $1,000 later, Emma rolled out Turner eManager, a web-based project management application built on the WordPress open-source blogging platform.