I’ve been working on the web since 2007 as an engineer, designer, strategist, user interface consultant, team lead, project manager, and product builder. My broad experience with hundreds of different projects and companies, huge and tiny, give me a lot to draw from when assisting high-performing teams and soloists.
I’m a senior web developer with over 9 years of experience, 7 with WordPress. Over 20,000 hours of development experience gives me a wide perspective and my focus on WordPress and JS makes me an excellent resource for companies using both.
Technologies I work with:
Regardless of the industry, when people care deeply about what they’re making and who they’re helping, it shows.
In one of those “meant to be” moments, I met the founder and president of the mind-bogglingly talented craft beer agency here in Seattle, Blindtiger. Oceania (Oce for short) invited me down to the office to talk shop and it just clicked.
8-month engagement to provide engineering, strategy, code review, pair programming, performance reviews, and security guidance.
A few details about the current (5th) iteration of this site.
A WordPress child theme gone mad! Built-in click statistics, moderation controls, grabbing text and images from submitted links, and expiring content.
Just in time for an announcement by Microsoft about their HoloLens project, we launched a complete site rebuild for 8ninths, focusing on their VR and AR capabilities.
Not my typical project these days but I quickly put this together for a friend of mine. His flat-file PHP site was a little long in the tooth so, using his brand colors, I whipped this up all in-browser. Fast, responsive, does the job!
Concept for a log of search terms with no results on a WordPress site.
Just HTML, CSS, and JS goodness! Design by Ernesto D. Morales
Responsive, pretty, and no database needed! Design by Ernesto D. Morales
In addition to designing and building, I also write. A lot. Technical documents, documentation for products and client sites, status report and estimate emails, blog posts, and so on.
I believe that concise, direct, and clear writing makes the web a better place and fosters great relationships. I pride myself on great communication with clients, non-technical team members, and fellow developers.
The web is made up of words, augmented with images, audio, and video, tied together with code in your browser, on the server, and everywhere else. Being a contributor to the web at large means touching everything during the process.
So I write words, take photos, and write code. Professionally, I’m typically creating the last piece of the puzzle but, for my own projects and ones for friends and family, I like to be a part of the whole process.
Unless attributed, words, photographs, and graphics are my own.
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After reading several articles and a great book, Deep Work by Cal Newport, I’m sold: focus is tough, necessary, and at a premium. I’ve been on a month-long discovery process to find how to work more efficiently (in other words: less screen time with more output), produce better, and avoid negative thoughts.
Before this, I wasn’t just losing time, I was actively harming my thought process for the rest of the time that I wasn’t distracting myself. All of this consumption, in the name of doing more and better, was robbing my ability to do just that.