Projects

I've been building websites for over 10 years now, so this is only a fraction of what I've built in that time. However free time is limited, so I've uploaded examples of the website I've worked on in the last 2 years primarily.

I love working with the web. Front end development is a blast (in moderation), and PHP's newer versions make the language fast and fun to build in. I have a ton of experience in Wordpress, and that's where the majority of my work takes place, but I have a personal passion for custom frameworks & MVCs.

A lightweight CMS roughly reminiscent of Wordpress APIs. Reforge offers novel intelligent caching through APCu, redis, memcache, wincache, xcache, or even filesystem to load database results and pages lightning fast. Page responses often clock in at around 50ms. This all happens behind the scene and manages those caches automatically, so you're never working with out of date data. When you alter data the relevant caches update to reflect that.

It supports:

• Advances caching that automatically selects the most performant service available on the server.
• An MVC framework capable of dynamically maintaining database schema without any overhead.
• Cascading and recursive custom fields placed on any number of post or page types.
• Granular and custom permissions through an admin UI.
• Themes and plugins.
• Custom post types.
• Forms with SMTP.
• Partial and reusable content blocks.
• A media interface that supports everything including SVG and Webp and automatically generates different defined sizes.
• Advanced SEO features including schemas and hinting.
• Built in automatic SCSS compilation.

I think performance is something that is often overlooked in web development, but the data shows that users care a lot about a website's response time. I built my own WP boilerplate theme to provide better performance and out of the box features and layouts for building highly custom wordpress websites.

It's built to be cache-friendly, extensible, responsive, and SEO focused.

I wrote my own CSS framework because I felt there wasn't a lightweight option out there that could be used as a solid website foundation. Websites that use libraries like bootstrap oftentimes have developers who misuse it and have thousands of excess lines of CSS for features and elements their website isn't using. Worse still, a lot of these developers spend hours unstyling bootstrap with soups of malformed and !important CSS rules. Used well, many of the CSS frameworks out there like bootstrap are very powerful tools, but for some projects I wanted a very lightweight and clean baseline to work from.

It supports:

• Fully responsive flexbox grids
• Responsive prefixed gutter classes
• Solid CSS reset
• Full color scheme with variable configuration
• Automatic text color contrast finder
• Common UI elements such as Tabs, Pagination, Modals
• Striking and well spaced typography
• Intelligent form validation and styling
• Very helpful helper classes
• All in under 40kb!

BDG was a passion project of mine starting in 2005. Big Dumb Gaming is an esports organization that emphasizes on having fun and being good. Often time esports brands are cold, standoffish, and bland. But we believe that having fun is what makes this industry special.

I spent 5 years managing 30 people and building the team up from a team no one had heard of, to world 3rd. I then stopped playing myself and created a business around the team. After years of building tens of thousands of followers and viewers on different platforms, we then partnered with the Golden State Warriors and other large brands to become one of the worlds premier esports teams.

It supports:

• Created high-quality production events that consistently captivated and entertained over 1 million unique viewers through storytelling and engaging content.
• Cultivated partnerships with major industry players including the Golden State Warriors, Zenni, and Redbull. These partnerships solidified us as a force in the esports arena.
• Led fundraising events raising over $143,000 for causes like Girls Who Code, RAINN, and Rise Above the Disorder, using our platform to make a tangible global impact.
• Led an 8-member team of event managers, team leaders, marketers, and developers to create comprehensive brand offerings and tools for large-scale success.
• Built complex automation tools using Node.js, C#, PHP, MySQL and more, tracking activity of 35 players and hundreds of volunteers.

I built my first computer when I was 11, but it didn't age that well. When I was 15 I spent most of my evenings playing World of Warcraft, but my scrappy computer couldn't keep up. Because of that I decided to learn how to create my own addons with a huge focus on increased performance (addons modify or replace aspects of the user interface).

I was able to create addons at a fraction of the size and at much higher efficiency than what was available at the time, and over time my addons have become extremely popular. Boasting over 1.5 million downloads.

I don't play World of Warcraft anymore, but I still do update and develop new addons in my spare time.