Objective
Utilize my years of experience on the Internet as Designer and Developer in the direction of pure PHP Development as well as contributing to and being active in the PHP community. To gain more experience in a team based, developer’s environment perfecting best practices.
Overview
- Nine years of solid PHP/MySQL experience Eight years in procedural, one in OOP
- Designed and Programmed a complete Content and Community Management System
- Programmed e-learning packages for Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland Sea Grant College and Environmental Science Educational Partnership
- HTML/CSS with 508 compliance and SEO in mind .
- LAMP server, Mac OSX Server, Windows 2003, SQL with IIS 6.0 experience
- Excellent client management skills
- Programming Skills: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, AJAX, XML, some Actionscript, some .NET
Current Status
9/2007 – Present
Philips Hadco
Communications Manager (Webmaster/Developer/Designer)
Upgrade and maintain corporate websites for Hadco lighting. Redesigned bot sites as well as created microsites for product launches. Hadco is now a division of Philips North America Lighting. I wrote a usability report that lead to an Information Architecture redesign. I tweaked the code written in.NET by Cimbrian (Lancaster, PA) to work with new navigation structure. Created OOP-based email list manager in PHP 5.2 for MS SQL Server.
Employment/Client History
5/2003— 4/2005
Maryland Sea Grant
College Park, MD
Educational Web Designer
Create, Publish and maintain scienceinquiry.org. This position had a varied scope of duties which included creating a custom CMS in PHP 5.1/MSQL 5.1 for mdsg.umd.edu. Creating e-learning systems for educators to post lessons for peer review. Creating and maintained grant website for grant participants. Creating and maintaining a CMS for Environment Science Education Partnership using the same e-learning systems. All site work done in procedural PHP.
Other duties included constant interactions with grant participants, video production of convention events, post-production using Final Cut Pro software.
3/2001 — 5/2003
Bruce Creative
Beaverton, OR
Owner
I freelanced for the two years that we lived out in Beaverton, Oregon. With the time I had I taught myself PHP/MySQL, designing and coding for several clients. Starting from a simple forum to creating a basic CMS with a member pay systems, newsletter system and community apps such as forums and chat.
10/1999 — 3/2001
Healant e-care business
Greensboro, NC
Senior Web Designer
This was mostly a pure design position where I was the only designer that knew any HTML/CSS or Javascript. This enabled me to better interact with the developers to give them realistic and workable designs, enabling us to push the barriers and little more.
12/1998 — 10/1999
CorData Technologies
Lexington, NC
Art Director
I “cut my web teeth” in this position, learning everything I could about HTML and CSS and Javascript. I dove into Dreamweaver 1.0 and Flash 1.0. I learned about web servers and systems. I never touched any server-side during this stint. I worked on many local clients’ sites as well as Volvo Action Services internal employee portal.
1993 -1998
Desktop Publishing and Illustration.
Education
12/1991 Columbus College of Art & Design , OH
Bachelors Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts Illustration Major Advertising Minor
Affiliations
Organizer: Frederick Web Technologies Group
Member: Baltimore/Washington PHP Meetup
Member: DCPHP User-Group
Technical Expertise Overview
- LAMP stack
- PHP 4.x, 5.x
- MySQL 3.3.9, 4.x
- Apache 1.x, 2
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some Linux (RHLE)
- Zend Optimizer
- ASP .NET (minimal)
- AJAX
- Javascript
- CSS
- Mac osX Server 10.1-10.4
- Mac Desktop
- Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc... (see below)
Skills
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Aptitude Key:
[Novice, Familiar, Adept, Guru] |
|
Skill |
Experience |
Aptitude |
| Illustrator |
Since 2000 |
Guru |
| Photoshop |
Since 1995 |
Guru |
| Dreamweaver |
Since 2000 |
Guru |
| Netbeans IDE |
Since 2009 |
Adept |
| Fireworks |
Since 2000 |
Guru |
| Freehand |
Since 1996 |
Adept |
| Flash |
1 year |
Adept |
| Macintosh os1.0-X |
Since 1984 |
Guru |
| QuarkXpress |
2 years |
Familiar |
| Final Cut Pro |
6 months |
Familiar |
| DVD Studio Pro |
6 months |
Familiar |
| PHP 4-5/MySQL 4-5 |
Since 2001 |
Adept |
| Perl |
Since 2001 |
Familiar |
| Apache Server |
Since 2002 |
Adept |
| ASP .NET |
Since 2007 |
Novice |
| Mac OSX Server |
Since 2001 |
Adept |
| Design |
Since 1991 |
Guru |
| Illustration |
Since 1991 |
Guru |
| Web Master |
Since 2001 |
Adept |
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