Welcome to my professional web site. My name is Mark Allen located in San Angelo, TX. I am a web developer specializing in PHP, MySQL, Linux Administration and other web languages of CSS, HTML and JavaScript. My services and work span many aspects of computer, telecommunication, server operations and system services.
Availabilty:
I am available for contract, fulltime employment or per diem client work. I am currently looking for a fulltime position for a company needing a web developer and LAMP professional.
During my professional career in technology, I have held positions spanning many facets of the industry. My only goal in my IT career has been be a go-to-guy and keep a broad perspective. This has enabled me to face challenges and provide solutions with very little experience in the production environment. I have always relied on my ability to learn on my own, research and develop solutions for simple and complex problems and keep a braod perspective.
1995-1999
My first positions included support and computer building with small businesses located in San Angelo, TX. My first position was support technician with Data Management, Inc, a company that developed Time Clock Plus software. Later, I moved up to the Chief & Lead Support Technician. My next position was with Power Systems Computers and the Chief Computer Assembler & Technician. These first positions in the mid 1990s encouraged me to take advantage of my ability to teach myself and become resourceful. In school, I was often a student tutor and helped in the computer lab. I also participate in the Texas UIL Programming competion.
2000-2003
In 1999, I moved to Austin, TX and held many positions in Network Administration and Software/Hardware Testing. The companies were both in and out of the IT industry and enabled me to work with tech knowledgable and nonknowledgable associates. I highly enjoyed working at Dell in the High Volume Server BIOS Lab as the Lab Tech and Tester.
2004-2007
While I was attending school for Medicine, I landed a general employment position at Austin Homebrew Supply. Quickly, this position turned into web development after the owner had a new website (osCommerce) built. At this point, my professional programming skills were rusty and I had a new language to learn. I used my resourcefulness and problem solving skills to populate the site with products and begin to modify the site for the specialized product.
Soon enough, Austin Homebrew was top of the homebrew suppliers!
2007-2010
In 2007, I moved back to San Angelo, TX and was a work at home employee for Impromtu Marketing as regular employment and the lead programmer. This position had many small and big projects including web server admistration. A large project was developing a Registration Path for CPA Offers. Other projects included Turn Key affiliate sites and server side code for product demos on Landing Pages and Affiliate sites. Often, I was the go to guy for understanding and explaining technologies.
2010-Present
Since early 2010, I have been a trusted freelancer for former associates and new clients. I have also began consulting and making recommendations to companies and individuals needing web technologies and solutions to product development. I have been a self starter and keep up with new web technologies outside of paid work. Recently, I held a 3 month position with Popular Thoughts, LLC, a start up with my former CEO at Impromptu Marketing. I developed a Firefox Plugin for Top Secret Surfer and a 2 Party order system for Gold Coast Partners.
Much of my work in the last year has been dealing with People Information Queries and systems, along with client CMS Front End, UI and Back End coding. I have taken an aggressive approach to learning JavaScript, jQuery and CSS to supplement my PHP strengths and deliver high end server and client side solutions. I am a Linux user and keep a local Fedora Linux server/workstation.
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PHP MySQL Apache Windows Linux XUL JavaScript HTML | XML cPanel WHM AJAX cURL JSON Affiliate Internet Marketing jQuery | CSS UltraCart iContact 2CheckOut Zillow Google Maps SEO programming FaceBook Connect | Proxy Firefox Addon Development |
I am currently a free lancer and looking for small to medium projects and clients. Onsite contract and employment availability is open to the right position, location and salary. I am within a 4 hour commute to Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth and can make special commutes to those cities for meeting or partial onsite work.
Feel free to send employment requests and interview offers however I am very particular about location, position and salary. Any location within 30 minutes of a coastline is preferred.