About Me

I'm a Full Stack Web Developer living in Boston, MA, with a focus on Craft/Wordpress and Vue.

I love working on the front end as well as the back end. DevOps is also something I enjoy.

When not working I enjoy snowboarding, golfing and playing pool.

Experience

Web Developer / DevOps
USA Cycling (Colorado Springs, CO), 2018 - present

Currently working on the website for optimizations along with any new adjustments for marketings needs. Managing the entire server architecture along with deploy processes.

Web Developer
Freelancer (Boston, MA), 2010 – present

Created websites for small to medium sized businesses and local government. Have worked with large universities as well. The sites created are responsive and built with various CMS such as Craft and Wordpress.

Web Developer
Deft Media Solutions (Boston, MA), 2013 – 2019

Co-founded Deft and was responsible for all design and development. Our sites are always mobile first responsive and cross browser compatible. Most of the sites used either a custom built CMS that was fit to the customer’s needs or Wordpress. Assisted with search engine optimization.

Web Developer
Grafton Studio (Cambridge, MA), 2016 – 2018

Worked on creating the front-end for websites and web apps based on Sketch files. Some of the front ends would then be integrating into Craft CMS. Others would be integrated with Angular usually. I would create and configure the production LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) stack then deploy the client site. I worked on companies that ranged from small to large businesses/universities.

Web Developer / Research
Blue Cross Blue Shield (Hingham, MA), 2007 – 2016

Created and maintained a web application that Senior (Medicare) Markets customer service and research associates use every day. The web app brings together many forms and documents needed to assist members as well as tracking for each call. I would also research data that was input through my app and be part of meetings with senior level management to improve the call center metrics.

Skills

Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows

Web (server and build tools): HTML5, XML, YAML, CSS3, SASS, LESS, Vue, Nuxt, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, GraphQL, PHP, Ruby, Python, Flask, SQL, Bootstrap, Foundation, Tailwind, Twig, Handlebars, Laravel (Framework including Mix and Blade), Yii framework, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Vite, Spike, Bedrock, Sage, Git, Bash, Apache, NGINX, Docker, DDEV, Composer, NPM, Homebrew

Server Hosting: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode

Deployment: Laravel Envoyer, DeployBot, Buddy

Server Provisioning: Laravel Forge, Ansible, Trellis, Capistrano

Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo

Design: Sketch, Figma, Adobe Xd, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, Zeplin, InVision

CMS: Craft CMS 2/3/4/5, Craft Commerce 1/2/3/4/5, Wordpress, Contentful, Strapi

Plugin Development: Craft CMS