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simmerin
History
- Member for
- 2 years 49 weeks
Personal
- Full Name
- John Simmer
- Location
- St. Paul and Surrounding Suburbs
- I attend Twin Cities Web Pros Meetings
- Frequently but Life Gets in the Way
Professional
- Job Title
- Web Developer
- I am self-employed
- I am looking for contract work
- Professional Bio
My primary work is contract based. I develop and manage the web presence for two grant projects currently based at Concordia University St. Paul through my own company Webartisan.biz . I also work in online instructional design and e-learning platform design through Web Learning Solutions Inc. - add to that some freelance work. I began teaching Writing and Designing for the Web in the fall of 2005 at Metro State University. It's a graduate level course covering a variety of topics related to web development, usability and information architecture. course website .
Skills
- Database Programming
- Intermediate
- HTML/XHTML
- Advanced
- PHP
- Beginner
- Linux/UNIX
- Beginner
- Search Engine Optimization
- Intermediate
- Windows
- Intermediate
- JavaScript
- Intermediate
- CSS
- Advanced
- Photoshop/Graphics
- Intermediate
- Additional Skills and Tools
- My web editors of choice are WebBuilder 2007 and Dreamweaver 8 (in that order). I'm still learning Flash Pro 8, but have a lot of experience with SwishMax. For graphics I primarily use Fireworks 8 and PhotoImpact 10. For dynamic programming I use CodeCharge Studio 3 (and subcontract with an experienced ColdFusion developer). I also coordinate projects and manage other contract workers.