Michael Girouard

Current

• Co-founder at JAM Interactive

Past

• Sr. Developer at Magnani Caruso Dutton
• Front End Engineer at M2 Systems
• Web Developer at Hydra Studio

• Course Director: Advanced Web Design 2 at Full Sail University
• Web Developer at Best Net

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Education

• Full Sail Real World Education

Recommended

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Connections

190 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• Central Florida PHP
• Panda PHP Components

Michael Girouard’s Summary

Web Application Developer with 10 years experience developing client-side and server side applications.

Michael Girouard’s Specialties:

Advanced JavaScript Development,
Advanced PHP Programming,
Application Architecture,
Flex Development,
Flash Development,
Python Development,
BASH Development,
Linux/*BSD Setup and Administration,
Apache Setup and Administration,
MySQL Database Design and Administration,
PostgreSQL Database Design and Administration

Michael Girouard’s Experience

• Co-founder

  JAM Interactive

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Sr. Developer

  Magnani Caruso Dutton

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 6 months)

• Front End Engineer

  M2 Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  Hired on a six month contract to develop a front-end to a Java Web service. Over the course of the project, I developed a full-stack PHP 5 framework to standardize the deployment of web projects.

• Web Developer

  Hydra Studio

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Sr. Web Developer and general go-to guy for all things web. In charge of planning and developing medium-sized web projects ranging from content management systems to full e-commerce solutions. Set up and maintained a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 web server for hosted customers.

• Course Director: Advanced Web Design 2

  Full Sail University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2004 — March 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Originally hired as a Lab Specialist to provide technical assistance to students in a lab environment. Promoted to an Associate Course Director and began lecturing within my first year. Promoted to Course Director within another year.
  
  Topics taught: XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, Flash, JavaScript, Project Management, PHP Programming, and MySQL.

• Web Developer

  Best Net

  (Internet industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years)

Michael Girouard’s Education

• Full Sail Real World Education

  2003 — 2004

Additional Information

Michael Girouard’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Central Florida PHP
• Panda PHP Components

Michael Girouard’s Interests:

Web Programming, Web Standards, Information Architecture

Michael Girouard’s Groups:

Central Florida PHP (http://cfphp.org/),
Florida Creatives (http://floridacreatives.com/),
Refresh Orlando

•    PHP
•    PEAR
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading

Michael Girouard’s Honors:

Course Director's Award: Computers, Math and the Internet
Course Director's Award: Advanced Web Design
Digital Media Excellence Award: Full Sail Top Gun 2004
First 1000 Zend Certified Engineers

Michael Girouard’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch