Resume :: Richard Silence

Technical Expertise

Adobe CS3: Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver, MSDOS, Windows; 9x, 2000, XP, 7, MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Visual Studio; 2005, 2008 and 2010,MS OneNote and MS Excel, Linux Mandriva, Apache (Win32) with PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin, Audacity, Sony Music Studio 7.0 and Zend Studio 7.1.0.

Professional Experience

M and J Auction	April 2006 – Present
PHP, CSS Template site This website is for the owners of an Antique shop in Eugene, OR that holds live Auctions. They needed a site that could be updated quickly with a link structure that now spans over 100 pages. Updating this site takes less than 4hrs and includes editing about 50-100 pictures and adding about 5 pages. This includes working with the client to create categories and prepping the auction to be ready to switch that auction over to the Archives section as soon as it is finished. The original design of this site took 2 days. I did the initial design in Photoshop CS1 and converted it into a website that consisted of 11 pages in about 8hrs. I have since streamlined the PHP so that I have one file for the header, one for the footer and one for the archive links regardless of the directory.
A Voice in the Desert	April 2009 – Present
ASP.NET, CSS, JavaScript and embedded flash audio player A Voice in the Desert was a live radio show in 2003 and is now going to be a podcast/blog oriented website. I have been converting the original shows from tapes, which have been degrading, into digital format. I have been using Audacity to clean out noise from the studio and Sony Music Studio to equalize the mix due to distortion from the tapes wearing out. There is now a SQL based membership that will have profiles and a backside administration panel. The membership is also going to include a front side shopping cart that will tie into the membership database and be linked between a MySQL DB and an MSSQL DB. Another section of this site includes a Wordpress Blog with a custom template and built in podcast functionality, as well as the ability for the ‘host’ to post videos from YouTube, Google, Meta Cafe and many others.
Active Investment Group	November 2008 – April 2009
ASP.NET, CSS, SQL with some PHP The website consisted of a SQL Database with an ASP.NET front end. The Database had several functions tied into it: 1. A list of Events that a potential client could register for. 2. A list of houses that the company had to show. 3. A CRM for the mortgage company to be able to track how they were developing leads and have ready access to contact clients for follow ups. 4. A backend that was accessible by the company staff to update the future events they were holding and then be able to email current clients right from the database. The main website was the company information with a VB.NET Code-Behind and database information displayed using regular Data Controls like DetailsView and FormView to get the information needed to their respective person. Another cool feature I added to this site was a PHP script that generated a random list of properties for sale. This script pulled out three (modifiable to any number) properties and put them inside a container on the main site. I have since modified that script and re-written it in VB.NET with the ability to pull from a table in a MySQL OR MSSQL Database instead of the original program that pulled from a flat file database.
Larsen’s Fine Candies	June 2002 – July 2008
HTML + CSS with PHP, Perl CommerceCGI Shopping Cart Larsen’s Candies was one of my first clients. I started working on their site by revamping the layout and making is more user-friendly and fixed some major issues with their 100+ product flat file database. I redid the PHP templates for the shopping cart to match the redone HTML files and integrated the same style-sheet to reduce download time. Larsen’s was using AOL dial-up at the time and needed faster loading pages to keep up. I ended up trimming the total site size to 1/3 the original helping it to load in less than half the time. A couple years into the project I revamped the code again to be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant; this had a measurable effect on search engine traffic and the cleaner code made it easier to have cross browser compatibility.
Additional Experience There are working demonstrations of AJAX using MS AJAX Toolkit as well as Spry Framework, embedded flash animation and an integrated Wufoo contact form that texts my phone whenever someone submits it on my site. On the front page I have 2 VB.NET random generators, one that pulls from a file of quotes and one that pulls from a file of movies so every time someone visits the page or refreshes it there will be a new set of both. I did that to show that you can add any form of media on either the PHP or VB.NET versions and have multiple instances on a single page. Also, the ASP.NET that I make uses Master Pages for easy additions of other features and page creation.