About Me

As a professional Web developer, I have learned a wide variety of skills ranging from developing scalable applications for the fast paced business world, to designing layouts that are pleasing to the eye. I enjoy learning and can quickly adapt new skills in the rapidly changing field of Web development. See for yourself in my portfolio. I am interested in creating a quality finished product by designing innovative web applications that are accessible and follow W3C standards. I am a team player with a good sense of humor. I am also an enthusiastic learner and am excited about agile development practices as well as keeping code clean and DRY. I am comfortable working remotely.

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If you would like to know about my past work experience, please read my resume.

Languages

  • Ruby
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Perl
  • Bash

Techniques

  • Ruby on Rails
  • UGC
  • AJAX
  • prototype
  • script.aculo.us
  • mootools

Tools

  • TextMate
  • Subversion
  • Photoshop
  • Mac OS X
  • Linux

More about me

I was born in Olympia, WA and now live Bellingham, WA. My hobbies include juggling, computer programming, sailing and playing music (accordion, penny whistle, and oboe). I like to travel and have been to Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Sweden, United Kingdom, Israel, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Andorra, Spain and Mexico. I attend Western Washington University part-time in a continuing pursuit of my academic interests. Over the past six years I have been studying music, theatrical lighting design, and computer science at WWU. I have also studied computer science at UAF.

About this page

I developed this page using Ruby on Rails, script.aculo.us javascript library for effects, and RMagick to automatically rotate and shadow the portfolio thumbnails. I designed the page graphics and layout. The randomized photographs in the header were taken by me from my sailboat, Edelweiss.

This site conforms to W3C standards.