About Me

My Background

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rowan University, where I graduated from in 2010. I've been working full time as a web developer at a somewhat large marketing & communications agency in Philadelphia since graduating. I consider myself very lucky as not only do I have a strong passion for my career choice, but I'm also in a field where there is so much to learn. Web development is and always will be a changing field of study and expertise. New technologies, web trends, and programming concepts pop up every day. It's overwhelming at times to sit back and look at how fast the industry is changing around me, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

My Skills

I've been programming websites since I was 14 years old and always had some sort of project going on. I never took it seriously until the end of my college career, but I'm glad I did! I've learned a lot about programming for the web since then, and have absolutely fallen in love with Drupal. I have a very strong understanding of CSS and web standards, as well as the hugely popular JavaScript framework jQuery. Here's a list of what I feel are my strong points as a developer:

  • Extensive experience with CSS and cross-browser compliance issues (including - unfortunately - IE6)
  • Strong skills with Photoshop (taking a few PSDs and optimizing, splicing, and outputting to a website theme)
  • eCommerce experience (understanding of compliance issues, SSL certs, etc)
  • Experienced working in the LAMP stack
  • Very comfortable working in CLI on a Linux box
  • Active use of Git as a version control system
  • Drupal site building, including module development, customization, and rapid theming
  • Solid understanding of server performance issues and concerns

My development experience

  • Nearly 2 years of fulltime Drupal development at a marketing & communications agency in Philadelphia
  • 2.5+ years of jQuery development, producing two popular plugins (seen on this website)
  • 4+ years of Photoshop experience (I'm not that creative, but I certainly know my way around the software)
  • Part time web developer for Rowan University my last year there
  • Developed & maintain over 15 Drupal sites, ranging from small brochure-style sites to large eCommerce builds

Why Ads?

The carousels I made are for free public use and I ask for nothing in return. I don't make much on the ads, but it's enough to cover the cost of my Linode where I use to do sandbox development and host this website. I'm sorry that they are so big and ugly! Some generous visitors have donated as well (button at the bottom of the page), which is much appreciated.