Welcome to my site! Thanks for the interest.
I hope that my skills are a good match for the project you are interested in developing or updating. Know that I have the skills and experience to tackle most any development task, and the finished product will be a beautiful and maintainable piece of software.
My email address is: [email protected]
Past Work
Here is a small sample of some of my past work:
Finding Cooper's Voice
One of the top blogs for autism support in the country. Utilized caching solutions and my hosting services to make it perform with high traffic.
Next Avenue
Working at Twin Cities PBS, I was the main developer in the transition from Drupal to Wordpress and to a responsive design with 1.5 million unique visitors per month.
Minnesota Remembers Vietnam
Interactive wall of stories from Vietnam vets in Minnesota. It includes a map to find stories as well as a story submission form that allows for vets to easily share their stories and a curation tool to allow editors to easily build stories from the submitted form.
Community of Peace Academy
Working with Malley Design, built and then re-branded the Community of Peace Academy site with a bold new look.
Twin Cities PBS
Helped architect and develop the flagship site for our company, using WordPress and an MVC framework on top of it to handle more complex pieces like the scheduling system and donation engine.
Background
I have been developing software for most of my life. I taught myself the BASIC and C languages before college, and since have developed with many other languages as well, in many diverse environments. Below is a summary of what languages, environments and tools I have used, in order of experience:
Languages
- PHP
- HTML/JavaScript/CSS
- C/C++
- Flash/Flex
- Java (Spring, Struts, Hibernate)
- C# .NET (MVC)
Environments
- Mac OS/Linux
- Windows/Windows Server
- Apache/Apache Tomcat (for both Linux and Windows)
- Unisys Mainframe
Tools
- WordPress
- PHPStorm
- Eclipse
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- git/Subversion
- Grunt
- Photoshop/Illustrator
- Drupal