About
I've been involved in building websites professionally since 2011. I started out building basic websites with HTML and CSS the summer after I graduated high school which began my fascination with the internet. After taking a Computer Science class at community college which used JavaScript as the language to teach programming concepts I was hooked.
WordPress Development
The past 8 years I've been focused primarily on WordPress development. That is - building fast, responsive themes and creating plugins to extend the functionality of the platform. While I'm in no way associated with them I look up to organizations like 10up for direction on best practices. I'm knowledgable on how to correctly utilize WP's filters and actions and absolutely love working with REST APIs.
I have experience building lightweight SEO focused blogs, large multi-lingual websites, e-commerce sites and just about anything in-between. Where I find I'm able to add value is within a Marketing team that makes heavy use of their website. I understand how campaigns are run, how attribution needs to work and have experience integrating data with CRMs so Marketing can measure results. I also have experience working within PPC platforms and Google Tag Manager. While I consider myself technical I can also zoom out and understand the larger context of my role within Digtal Marketing.
Ongoing
I continually seek to learn more about marketing, business, sales and web development. I recently got back into writing JavaScript (ES6, Web Components & Node.js) - this site is built using Eleventy (11ty) which is an awesome static site generator.
Personally
I'm a Dad, fly fisherman, amateur mechanic and semi-professional homeowner.