My Credentials
I write for myself, others, and my job. Below you’ll find some of my educational experience, as well as some technical details about me. This page should be not be confused with my résumé.
Degrees and Awards
- I have a Master of Science in Business Administration degree from Texas A&M.
- I have a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology from Devry Phoenix.
- I won 2nd Place in the Redstone Arsenal Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. essay contest.
- I received Time’s Person of the Year (2006).
Website Knowledge
I have been working on websites since I was 14 years old (for over ten years). I have recently fully embraced web standards. I do website design as a hobby, and have yet to consider doing it as a full-time job.
Writing Experience
Other than writing for this blog, I have no formal training in writing and literature. I had several English courses in college, but that was the extent of my training. My writing ability is mostly self taught since most English courses emphasize what “not to do” rather than how to write effectively. I would love to write articles, stories, and editorials for others if given the opportunity.
I have written articles for the following blogs:
- Devlounge
This is a blog resource for designers and developers. I am currently an active contributor. I write reviews, script tutorials, opinionated pieces, and latest news articles.
- Fighting to Stay Awake
Fighting to Stay Awake is a personal blog, with topics ranging from snowboarding, Christianity, and blogging. I wrote one piece for the blog regarding Christian giving.
- Weblog Tools Collection
I entered an essay contest on the WLT website. I didn’t win, but did receive an honorable mention for being the most read. Not exactly Miss Congeniality, but good enough.
- The Reader Appreciation Project
I helped found the RA Project and write for the blog regularly. I am currently an active contributor.
- The Reasoner
I’ve written one guest post at The Reasoner. It was rather squirrelly.
If you would like me to write for you or would like me to write a sample article, please contact me personally.
Web Scripts
I have written several scripts for the design community.
- Custom Reading Containers(CRC)
Custom Reading Containers allows a user to resize a website just like a regular window. It’s actually running on this site. CRC was featured on a boagworld podcast. CRC was also featured on smashing magazine.
- Custom Reading Width(CRW)
Custom Reading Width does the same thing CRC does as far as container resizing. CRC is a little more out of the way and more intuitive than CRW however. CRW was featured on smashing magazine.
- Feed Styler
Feed Styler is a WordPress plugin that allows bloggers to make feeds a little easier to read with styles. The plugin has been featured on Circle Six Design, Andy Beard’s website, and ProBlogger.
- WP Categories and Posts
Categories and Posts allows you to list categories and posts in a sitemap-like fashion. You can check out my sitemap for an example.
- WP Do Nothing
I spent hours working on this one. Not really. This was an April Fool’s prank and is a plugin that does absolutely nothing.
- WP AJAX Edit Comments
This plugin allows admins and users alike to edit comments.
Programming Experience
I don’t have years and years of programming experience, but I have been programming in Visual Basic .NET for about 2 and a half years now. I’ve been programming with PHP for about five years, and have been doing HTML since about 1995. I’ve recently picked up JavaScript and have about six months experience in that (not counting the years I was a script kiddie).
The languages I know fairly well are PHP, VB.NET (2003 and 2005), Actionscript 2.0, JavaScript (getting there), HTML, CSS, and XHTML. I had a few C++ courses in college, but don’t know the language well enough to say I “know” it. I can, however, translate C# code into VB pretty easily (with the exception of the rather unintuitive event structure of C#). I also can get my hands dirty in ColdFusion.
