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Since 1998, I have developed numerous websites using various technologies. My expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL helps me accomplish nearly anything an employer wants on the web. I will help you get Wordpress to do what you need, and integrate it with most any other web system. If Wordpress is not the right tool, I help you meet your goals with another system.I also have used Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and other graphic design applications extensively since 1992, when I worked in graphic arts.
Projects: Web content management systems.These systems allow secretarial staff with basic skills to add and edit content on a number of government websites.Responsibilities:
The City of Champaign is a municipal government organization in a Big Ten university city, with over 500 employees. I manage all facets of the City's public websites and internal employee websites.
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Public projects:http://ci.champaign.il/us/http://cctownship.com/http://mayorsbirthdayclub.org/Internal projects:Cityweb employee website
The News-Gazette is a large newspaper serving the Central Illinois area. I performed basic web programming and content management tasks.Responsibilities:
Illini Media Company is the student media organization for the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. They hire students to run media outlets, including a radio station, newspaper, weekly magazine, yearbook, and various other publications. Each publication has a website, as well.
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I work as a communications technician on an "ITECS" (Illinois Transportable Emergency Communications System) trailer. ITECS trailers are deployed throughout the state of Illinois to aid communications in the event of disasters.
I've worked on the ITECS system since they were first deployed in Illinois in 2006.
This was the 2nd time we hired Paul for a project because of the excellent work he had done during our first project. Actually, this 2nd project was really a continuation of the 1st project, but we decided to increase his hourly rate that was well deserved and could only do so by ending the first project and creating a 2nd project for him.To our disappointment, Paul's work ethics completely transformed from a brilliant, responsive, accountable programmer, into someone who constantly failed to meet deadlines (not just our deadlines, but deadlines that he set himself).On several occassions, Paul would tell us he'd be working on our project "today" and we'd never see the results of any of this "work". Several days would pass by and still nothing. It was only when/if we'd send an email inquiry to Paul, that he'd respond back again telling us he'd be working on our project "the next day" and then he'd go missing in action again.Paul ended up costing our business a lot of money by not completing something that would have made the updating of our website much more efficient. It's a shame to have spent so much time teaching a programmer the intricacies of our business (at our expense), and then have him handle things the way he did.
