Web Developer, Pragmatic Crusader
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Web Developer at Zivity
- Past
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- Web Consultant at wil1.com
- Copyright Assistant at GoDaddy.com
- Web Consultant at wileverts.com
- Manager, Web/Software Development at Gold & Associates, Inc
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Wil Everts’s Summary
I'm a web developer obsessed with building beautiful, pragmatic, and surprising web experiences. I've spent a number of years as a consultant wearing more hats than any man should wear. Luckily my hair line has not suffered (myth busted!)
On New Years of 2007 I moved to San Francisco in hopes of advancing my career. I spent the first year here working as a consultant using XHTML/CSS, XML, Flash, Photoshop, PHP, MySQL, Flash Video + ff-mpeg, and mod_rewrite in various projects.
In January of 2008 I started at Zivity.com where I have been focused primarily on Front-End Development writing loads of unobtrusive jQuery, valid XHTML/CSS, with extensive rails layout and view templating work!
Wil Everts’s Specialties:
Front End Development, Templating (Smarty/Template Toolkit, PHP, Rails, Wordpress), Cross-platform hacking, XHMTL, CSS, unobtrusive jQuery, Logistics, Problem Solving.
Wil Everts’s Experience
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Web Developer
Zivity
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (9 months)
Work closely with the Director of User Experience and the Back End Developers to build cross-browser compatible web pages using XHTML, Javascript, and CSS.
Things I've Worked on:
- Worked with Design, Product, and the Rails Engineers to deploy new layouts to both the beta and public websites.
- Converted the photo set, leader board, profile, my stuff, photo set upload views from pro/taculous to jQuery.
- Minimized redundant code by making universal unobtrusive jQuery functions to do more with less code.
- Was the front-end coder on the teams responsible for the notifications, privacy, navigation, leader board, and profile friends/fans pagination features released in the summer of 2008.
Currently Working on:
- Completely overhauling the views to decrease bloat and maintain strictly unobtrusive javascript interactions and style.
- Making all of our XHTML valid.
- Implementing new features! -
Web Consultant
wil1.com
(Internet industry)
May 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Consulted full time for TEK Gaming from 5/2005-2/2006 (when the business was sold). I was responsible for graphic design, php/mysql development, flash, etc for this wildly successful e-Commerce website geared at 16-26 year-old males.
Moved to San Francisco 1/07 where I continued consulting and expanding my skill-set by learning WiTango, ff-mpeg, mod_rewrite, javascript, Template Toolkit, Subversion, CVS and jQuery. Some key assignments in 2007:
- Developed a flash video upload & transcoding utility using ff-mpeg and a custom flash video controller for The Learning Annex.
- Created a custom PHP/MySQL e-commerce website for AvatarForce.com
- Created a custom CMS using the prototype javascript library and PHP/MySQL for A Night With The NY Daily News.
- Created cross-platform CSS/HTML views from image drafts and made them dynamic using Template Toolkit, jQuery, and Flash as a Front-End Consultant at a "stealth" San Francisco start-up. -
Copyright Assistant
GoDaddy.com
(Internet industry)
April 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 2 months)
- Became a new-hire mentor after only two-weeks with Go Daddy
- Was promoted to the billing department where I lead my team in sales and customer satisfaction for several months.
- Was promoted to the legal department where I worked with domain disputes and copyright applications.
- During this time I ran a podcast called the indie music pod-jam and was the first blogger to transmit their work into space... seriously. http://www.prleap.com/pr/6020/ -
Web Consultant
wileverts.com
(Internet industry)
April 2001 — March 2004 (3 years)
My first clients were in the financial industry and included The HELP Network and Gold & Associates. In spring of 2002 I began to develop "e-commerce websites" for various small businesses including: TEK Gaming (One of the first commercial web sites selling MMORPG currency), 2WayGadgets.com, BuyGameGold.com, etc.
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Manager, Web/Software Development
Gold & Associates, Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
November 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 6 months)
In 1996 I was hired as the Webmaster/Administrative Assistant.
- Responsible for everything to do with the website
- Performed daily administrative duties in the office
- Maintained the company's Windows NT Server.
- Developed a wildly popular flash version of the site in 1999.
In late 1999 I was promoted to Manager, Public Seminars.
- Was responsible for G&A's High Net-worth Seminar Series at the Wrigley Mansion.
- Graphic Design for seminar visuals (Powerpoint, Video, Shockwave), print advertising, and workbooks.
- Was responsible for advertising, mailing list purchasing, location scouting/reservations, menu, and production (sound, projector, laptop, etc).
In late 2000 I was promoted to Manager of Web/Software Development.
- Was responsible for developing their educational video website directed at financial planners.
- Developed a complex video-learning Quicktime+Shockwave web-app and a cd-business card with a custom Shockwave retirement calculator
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