Jeffrey Barke

Current

• Senior Developer / Information Architect at theMechanism

Past

• Freelance web developer at Freelancing
• Website administrator at Glowlab
• Web Content Specialist at Crisis Prevention Institute

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Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Jeffrey Barke’s Summary

Jeffrey Barke is the senior developer and information architect at theMechanism New York where he oversees all aspects of application development. Jeffrey is committed to W3C standards-compliant HTML and CSS encoding, the practice of unobtrusive JavaScript development and object-oriented PHP scripting. Jeffrey also brings a rigorous approach to relational database design to ensure that the solutions developed for clients in North America and Europe are robust, scalable and operate with maximum efficiency. A firm believer in the open source ethos with a preference for the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) environment, Jeffrey is also a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD).

Originally from Milwaukee, where he studied philosophy, urban geography and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and worked in the nonprofit sector creating data maps for social advocacy and desktop applications for community-based organizations, Jeffrey joined theMechanism in January 2007.

Jeffrey has spoken at an Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) conference and taught workshops on mashup developtment at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He currently co-organizes and often speaks at the New York Web Standards Meetup Group on topics including accessibility, microformats, the Google Maps API, best practices in AJAX-driven user interface design and natural search engine optimization.

In his spare time, Jeffrey provides volunteer internet consultancy and development to a number of New York based arts organizations, such as Glowlab, ArtBots and the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Jeffrey Barke’s Specialties:

HTML 4.01 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0, JavaScript (familiar with both Prototype and jQuery libraries), PHP 4 and 5, Classic ASP, MySQL, SQLServer, Google Maps API, Flickr API, WordPress development, wiki development with the PmWiki engine

Jeffrey Barke’s Experience

• Senior Developer / Information Architect

  theMechanism

  (Online Media industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  HTML and CSS creation, front-end development with JavaScript (Prototype and jQuery libraries), back-end development with PHP 4 and 5. Have worked with WordPress and built custom content management systems.

• Freelance web developer

  Freelancing

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Website administrator

  Glowlab

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Web Content Specialist

  Crisis Prevention Institute

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Jeffrey Barke’s Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  1996 — 2001

Additional Information

Jeffrey Barke’s Websites:

• My Company

Jeffrey Barke’s Interests:

standards-based web development, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, chess, philosophy, history

Jeffrey Barke’s Groups:

New York Web Standards Meetup, Internet Society New York chapter, Greenpoint Chess and Go Club

•    Internet Society
•    theMechanism

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