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Des Moines, Iowa Area

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Des Moines, Iowa Area
I love using the tools of web development to create compelling and natural presentations of content, relational interactions, and/or ways to get stuff done.
And it's so much more rewarding doing that with clients that "Sweat the Details", and have a strong sense of subtle aesthetics.
Fluent in HTML, CSS, Javascript (across all major browsers). Very comfortable with PHP, Python, SQL and managing databases. Conversational in Ruby, and a smattering of odds and ends like XSLT.
SVN wizard, Linux / FreeBSD apprentice.
(Hospitality industry)
March 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Making the web a better place for those driving around the tubes with '86 Ford Escorts.
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — March 2009 (2 years )
Freelance developer focusing on developing HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — April 2007 (4 years 8 months)
Started as a part time contractor migrating an Access database to SQL Server. Developed web applications in VBScript / ASP, PHP, and C# using SQL Server and MySQL databases. Acted as junior server administrator for web and mail servers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 4 months)
Answered questions on Home Automation Software on (when forced) phone and email. Wrote documentation for product, once spent hours figuring out Microsoft's method for combining CHM documents using Collections. Also tinkered with software to show the cool stuff one could do, which happened to be my start in writing web applications.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
July 2000 — June 2001 (1 year )
Created reports and debugged internal Visual Basic application used to enter orders for company's products.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)
September 1999 — July 2000 (11 months)
Performed database administrative tasks for group of mainframe programmers within company.
1995 — 2000
College was nice. Go Cyclones.