I’m a front-end developer who enjoys diving into the markup. I’m very interested in HTML5, especially the canvas element. If you need help maintaining a large company intranet while adding modern features, then I’m your guy.

I’m familiar with the Adobe Creative Suite, including Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop and Fireworks. I’m also experienced in AS3 Flash programming, but recently I began to move away from Flash in favor of the HTML5 canvas.

I use JavaScript, jQuery, ASP, CSS, HTML5, CSS media queries, and whatever else comes up. Plus, I’m always looking for new tips and tricks.

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My last two web development contracts have involved Sitecore. In both cases, the client company was moving from an older internal site to a new CMS after years of a “wild west” approach to website building. The old site still needed to be maintained while the new one was under construction, and decisions had to be made about the best way to migrate the data. This results in the unfortunate problem of digging through old code to find errors, add missing </div> tags, and figure out just where on the servers that include file is hiding. I’ve become adept at doing such work quickly so I can make room for other projects.

Those projects include:

• Working with a team of database administrators and back-end developers to build internal web applications, making sure that the app uses HTML 5, but also degrades gracefully for Internet Explorer.
• Working to enhance the existing intranet using modern web standards wherever possible.
• Working with the web team to develop solutions for the new Sitecore CMS, using modern CSS, HTML 5, jQuery and other technologies while maintaining a responsive design.

For example, the web team at my last position was using Adapt.js to alter our 960 grid system whenever the user changed the browser window, but it caused problems with Internet Explorer. Rather than continuing to fight with settings and tweaks, I took the CSS that the script was using and simply added it to the top of our stylesheet as media queries. Along with a few other styling tweaks, we could remain responsive while avoiding JavaScript errors. These media queries are now the standard standard for our new site.