SEEKING WORK - Seattle, WA / Remote
Email: my hn username at gmail.com.
I'm a designer and developer experienced with Wordpress, Drupal, Django, and Rails/Sinatra. My personal goals are to be a great programmer in javascript and ruby, to learn java and objective-c, and to design beautiful interfaces for a wide range of platforms. I work daily at these goals. I have a strong passion for open source software and open civic data.
In late 2012 I created SeattleWiki.net and in January 2013 co-founded Code for Seattle, a local civic technology group with loose affiliations with Code for America. Along with Bruce Blood at the Seattle DoIT, I helped organize Hack for Change - Seattle, a hackathon held at City Hall on June 1.
I started learning CSS and HTML in 2005, started developing with Drupal in 2006, and have since developed sites with Wordpress, Django, Sinatra, Jekyll, and other content management systems and frameworks. I studied journalism and web development at The Evergreen State College, served as editor in chief of Evergreen's school newspaper, and worked as an advisor to the same school newspaper for 3 years after graduation. As an advisor I trained students on Drupal, CSS, HTML, Javascript, and broad web development/design/publishing concepts. I was responsible for maintaining the organization's websites, the web server, and the local file server.
Work examples:
<a href="http://codeforseattle.org" >
The main site for the local civic technology organization, Code for Seattle. Created with Jekyll, CSS, HTML.
<a href="http://learnjs.io" >
The site for a book I'm writing about javascript. Created with Jekyll, CSS, HTML.
<a href="http://superbigtree.com" >
My "headquarters" website for freelancing and independent projects. Created with Jekyll, CSS, HTML. More work examples at <a href="http://superbigtree.com/projects" >