Brendon Smith in San Francisco, CA (California)

Brendon Smith

Omaha, NE | San Francisco, CA

Also known as: seacloud9

Mr. Smith loves technology, enjoys when people use his applications and are delighted by the experience, also loves to write about and share the latest technologies, but you already knew this by now. The Midwest is where he currently resides and grew up and believes this has supplied him with a no-nonsense approach. He believes in working smart not hard. He has been a professional web developer for the past 9 years. He graduated from Creighton University with a Bachelors Degree in Studio Art with an emphasis in Painting. Throughout his career he has taught for various institutions, created intranets, and a countless number of websites. He worked for Salesgenie.com that has had several Superbowl ads in the past. He worked with a tight knit ( around 5 dedicated engineers ) group that helped engineer software that generates 40 to 100 million a year annually for InfoGroup. He implemented a mashup that enables Salesgenie.com customers to map their leads on Google maps. He works side by side with some of today's best software engineers. He is able to combine his art skills with his programming skills in a seamless manner this makes his skill set unique. Mr. Smith enjoys designing and creating websites. He is constantly creating interactive widgets and experiments. His bookshelf is filled with books from amazon.com he reads numerous periodicals to keep up with the latest trends in design and programming. He loves to creating new things and is excited to be a part of the internet and help shape it. When dealing with non-techies he takes a common sense approach when explaining websites purposefully avoiding anachronism and supplying real life analogies to bring his knowledge and expertise too life in a way anyone can understand. He is extremely efficient and truly loves what he does. With a well rounded skill set he is an end to end solution for your small business needs. Specialties ASP.NET(C#), ADO.NET, ASP, ADO, MS AJAX, XML, SQL, mySQL, etc. Proficient with ASP.NET MVC and Ruby on Rails Familiar with all ASP.NET controls and the best practices for applying CSS. Proficient with REST service creation. Ability to pickup virtually any API. Highly Proficient with PHP ( Zend Framework and Codeigniter ), AS3, MXML, XAML, AIR, Sencha Touch, jQuery, PhoneGap, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, webGL, oAuth, Facebook API and Connect, Twitter API 8+ years on the Bleeding Edge