Seeking to work in an environment that encourages clean development techniques and new technologies.
I am seeking to work in an environment that helps me:
PHP & SQL application development started five years ago. It was all for making little CMS's to run websites for myself. It started handy dandy, and it later turned into a job. Built some blogs out of scratch, customized some photo galleries. It was fun. But then Wordpress came into my life, so I moved into focusing on front-end development.
I spent time playing with HTML and CSS, and then expanding it all to Javascript. After I found script.aculo.us, it was an upward path that led to discovering Mootools, and then finally jQuery. I have spent close to two years with jQuery — it is the longest relationship I've held with a library/framework.
Of course, after working all my skills we're applied and grown. I met interesting people, they introduced me to more libraries. Used the libraries, and got an idea of them -- if they stuck, they stuck. If they didn't, maybe next time. Three20 came my way like that, and that one stuck. With Objective C & iPhone development, their was a big need to have an awesome library. Three20 fullfilled that & has made making iPhone apps tons and tons times easier.
I worked at Gin Lane for a bit over two years. I started off as the sole web developer, and worked on one or two projects at the same time. The projects were small, mostly running lolanewyork.com and making some Facebook apps for SeamlessWeb.
By the end of my first year, we started brining in people. The company had grown to over 10 employees (versus 3 when I first started). We had a little web development department, and had more interesting projects coming in. We built a ton of sites, including roc4life.com, Allido Records.com, and Tim Barber's Portfolio. I was the lead developer on these sites, and built the frontend for the sites, as well as doing a good chunk of backend wiring up.
As the second year rolled in, I began to have more interesting sites completed. Hint Magazine was a rather good looking website, as well Stella McCartney for Adidas, which we launched by working with their teams all over the world. I also began working on iPhone Development in Objective C.
Recently, the iPhone app version of tinyvices.com was approved -- the first of a few apps that I'm currently working on.
While trying to get my feet wet with development, I found Eric Foster Media. I worked on a few wordpress websites, which aren't online anymore. Most of the work I did was Wordpress theming related, and bits of Javascript.