I am a web developer at The University of Montana, I work for the central IT department and i am one member of an excellent team responsible for the UM Home page. I live in Missoula with my wife and son (he’s 2).
I’ve worked on a variety of projects.
I have been the webmaster for a Professional School at The University Of Montana • I am an Eagle Scout • I have been a Java Developer for Oracle Portal (And presented on PDK Development) • I have setup numerous web servers, both IIS and Apache, supporting PHP, Perl, Ruby, MySQL and MS SQL Server • I have been that guy from Kinko’s who is too stupid to make your copies right • I have created a central blogging system for the University of Montana that used WordPressMu and ties into a central authentication server • I have installed multiple instances of MediaWiki to be used by students, faculty and staff • I have set up installed and configured Moodle and WordpressMu to work with a CAS server • I have played with the administration side of iTunesU • I have supported a University homepage, landing pages and CMS, written • NET (C#) • I have used Linux (Ubuntu) as my primary OS for several years • I have organized and presented at a workshop for website accessibility and good html and css practices • I am a member of the Nonprofit Technology Network's (NTEN) affiliate in Missoula. • I co-own my own business.
Thoughts:
- Coffee is necessary.
- Sushi has no equal.
- I’m a sucker for PHP.
- 3rd Party software is poorly written and poorly organized.
- Open Source is Inherently good.
- It is true that open source software is often 3rd party, but the caveat is that if it’s open source you can do something about it.
- Microsoft is Inherently Evil.
- Everything i know i learned from tinkering.
Samples
- Dennis Loveless for Judge - A site I did for a friend of mine running for public office.
- Easy for campaign staff to edit and update content.
- Ability to accept online donations, and gather specific donor info.
- Uses entirely open source code, from CMS to Design.
- rTribes - A web application I wrote to facilitate group buying, and incorporate a social networking component.
- Built in content management system making content updates easy.
- Ability to accept online payments, and easily manage orders
- Written in PHP with a MySQL backend
