Web Development & Web Design

Problem: A videographer and a past client, Wil Weldon needed to upgrade his website to a more modern look, responsive design and SEO optimized solution.

Resolution: Utilizing the WordPress CMS I created a custom child theme to showcase the videos in Wil's portfolio and aloow him to showcase his videos with a sleek, modern, responsive website.

Year Developed - 2018

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, PHP/MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Vimeo video.

Visit Site: Wil Weldon

Problem: Storied Legacy, a video production company that captures legacies of prominent families with video story telling needed a website to display the information and video for the Gergen family.

Resolution: Using WordPress, I created a custom child theme for a small mutimedia website to hold videos, images and text for the end client.

Year Developed: 2017

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, PHP/MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Photoshop.

Visit Site: Gergen Family

Problem: The director of a local non-profit needed a developer to work pro-bono on her website to add new features and content and complete the build-out so the non-profit would start receiving donations.

Resolution: I jumped in and assisted with adding new content features and graphics giving the site a professional appearance that increased online donations.

Year Developed: 2016 - 2017

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, PHP

Visit Site: Vaccine Ambassadors

Problem: Duke Energy needed to upgrade their customer-facing website and also implment a new content management system to be able to easily update content, add alerts, banners, graphics, content and PDF's.

Resolution: Working as part of a large collaborative team I assisted in helping to implement the new website building out pages for their common digital platform (CDP) project.

Year Developed: 2017

Key Skills Utilized: SiteCore CMS, HTML5, CSS3

Visit Site: Duke Energy

Problem: Gander Mountain had an outdated website that wasn't responsive and had an outdated look and feel to it and needed a serious upgrade.

Resolution: Working as part of a front-end development team, I worked to build out the sections for the rebranded Gander Outdoors e-commerce website.

Key Skills Utilized: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap. jQuery, PHP/Perl, Agile Team.

Visit Site: Gander Outdoors

Problem: The Director of Triangle Music School wanted to upgrade their website to a platform that would allow their website to be more engaging to potential students and allow the internal staff to make text and image updates frequently.

Problem: I designed and developed a theme specifically for Triangle Music School in WordPress, optimized for search engines and performed trianing with the TMS staff so they could updated content in-house.

Year Developed:2018

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, SEO

Visit Site: Triangle Music School

Problem: A consultant needed a website to showcase his experience and writing to potential clients.

Solution: I developed a website in WordPress for Dennis Brandl at BRL consulting that would showcase his extensive experience and knowledge to bring him more clients and visibility.

Year Developed: 2016

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, PHP/MySQL

Visit Site: BRL Consulting

Problem: The owner/president of UltraMed Software needed a website built quickly to allow for users to demo his healthcare software.

Solution: Utilizing the WordPress platform I built a new website for UltraMed within a week that would contain a link for the software demo and give a brief intro to the company.

Year Developed: 2018

Key Skills Utilized: WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, PHP/MySQL

Visit Site: UltraMed Software

Working on a freelance basis, I wrote an article for UpWork on website accessibility.

Year Written: 2018

Key Knowledge: Website Accessibility

View Article: Upwork - Website Accessibility

Working on a freelance basis, I wrote an article for Upwork about the new features and changes in version 4 of the Bootstrap framework.

Year Written: 2018

Key Knowledge: Bootstrap

View Article: Upwork - Bootstrap 4.0 - new features and changes

Working on a freelance basis, I wrote an article for UpWork about color theory and the meaning behind certain colors in web design.

Year Written: 2018

Key Knowledge: Web Design Color Theory

View Article: Upwork - Use of colors in web design