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Hey everybody. I'm a website developer from Kingston, serving businesses in the Hudson Valley from local professionals and craftsmen to web agencies and mid-size businesses. My journey into World Wide Web technologies began in 1998. My battery of skills includes HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, and Photoshop. In Content Management Systems, my favorite by far is Drupal, but I also have experience in WordPress, Zen Cart, Shopify, and Squarespace. I have written a custom ecommerce CMS from scratch, and maintain other custom CMSs for some of my client base.

Website development is rewarding, but not nearly as rewarding as high quality interactions and relationships with people. I have always been passionate about understanding the human experience and achieving clear and kind communication in all manner of relationships. This passion infuses my website development work in the ways of clear communication with clients, bringing marketing and user journey awareness to any website engineering project, and also in teaching website development. I have found increasing pleasure in analyzing the user experience aspect of website development, and how best to design for optimum honest and effective communication of a business' message to its niche market. And I find teaching at OpenHub rewarding because I enjoy empowering people to gain important skills for their personal business goals and livelihoods.