I am an American full stack web developer and graphic designer living in Berlin.
My main focus is PHP + Craft CMS development, but having over 15 years of experience building websites for two American web agencies, an Austrian startup, and many freelance projects, I have played the role of both frontend and backend developer, designer, and consultant. I strive towards a keen sense for organization, foresight, and communication and value doing things the right way over doing it the easiest way.
My skills include PHP, Craft CMS, JavaScript (including Vue & jQuery), SEO minded HTML, CSS/SCSS, and Design, although I very rarely take on client design work anymore.
Please get in touch if you have a Craft project you need developed!
Emotionalists is a project focusing on curated music playlists consisting of 10-15 songs and revolving around specific moods instead of genres or eras. It's aimed at people looking for a fitting soundtrack to their work commute, late night bar shift, or home dinner party, etc, or just the avid music lover looking to dig up music a little further beneath the surface.
In order to let the user jump in and out of different playlists easily and immediately feel each playlist's unique character, Vue.js was chosen to give it more of an app feel. Craft CMS still holds the content, however, and all the design and CSS was also done by me.
Put on every spring in Battersea Park by The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of London, Firsts is the world's most prestigious fair for selling rare books and manuscripts, many easily selling in the hundreds of thousands of GBP.
With over 200 exhibitors every year, this website needs to register them, provide them the necessary forms to apply, integrate with Stripe to let them pay for their stand and accessories at the fair, and let them upload information on selected items they wish to highlight at the fair, all while providing information to public visitors and data analytics to the ABA team who manage the fair. My role in this project has been everything website related: design, front-end development, Craft CMS, and custom PHP to integrate with various APIs and extend Craft to the site's many specific needs.
Put on every autumn in Chelsea, London by The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, The Chelsea Rare Book Fair is the smaller, more casual fair of the two (see Firsts above). Despite being a more local event than Firsts, it still attracts many international booksellers every year.
With over 100 exhibitors every year, this website needs to register them, provide them the necessary forms to apply, integrate with Stripe to let them pay for their stand and accessories at the fair, and let them upload information on selected items they wish to highlight at the fair, all while providing information to public visitors and data analytics to the ABA team who manage the fair. Despite sharing a similar front-end to Firsts, there are many differences needed in the back-end to make this site more than just a clone of Firsts.
My role in this project has been everything website related: design, front-end development, Craft CMS, and custom PHP to integrate with various APIs and extend Craft to the site's many specific needs.
Betterteam is an Australian startup whose platform allows business owners to post to job sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, etc, all from one place. My role was maintaining their website by providing bug fixes and new feature implementations on both the front-end and back-end.
Chick Quest is a band website and personal project built on Craft CMS. Everything you see is designed and coded by me. You can watch a video of me giving a tour of the front-end and CMS, finishing with some code examples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8Id85LVHo
crowd-o-moto was a bilingual online platform based in Vienna, Austria for like-minded car buyers seeking to buy a new car. The platform connected those buyers to dealers offering the group a discounted price. Built on Craft CMS, Bootstrap.
What I did: Craft CMS implementation, HTML/CSS, Design
A multilingual site, Fiberon sells artificial, environmentally safe wood for the construction of home decks. They are a top seller of the product in both North America and Europe. Built on Craft CMS.
What I did: Craft CMS implementation, jQuery, HTML/CSS