Brian's Web Design & Development

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About Me

This "All About Brian" page is like an online resume, so that you can learn more about my background. The page can be printed, or you may download a pdf version using the link in the right column. While I have a Portfolio Page and a Development Projects Page that show my work on the web, this work experience has not been included on this page. If there is anything else you would like to know about me, please use the message form on my Contact Page to send me a message.

Location

I currently live in, and work out of, Temecula, CA. I was raised and lived in Escondido, CA for 28 years. I frequently go to Escondido and North San Diego County, and still consider this area part of my "home territory". I moved from Escondido in 2002, and am happy living in Southwest Riverside County.

Robert Brian Gottier

PO Box 1503
Temecula, CA 92593
(951) 970-6213

Employment History - past 10 years (excludes freelance work)

Temecula Valley Sewing Center

Address: 28780 Old Town Front St. #A2, Temecula, Ca 92590
Phone number: (951) 694-9576
Job Description: Owner, website administrator, sewing machine technician, sewing machine sales, embroidery software sales and instruction
Date Started: 4/05 Date Finished N/A

Woerth Stitching, Inc.

Owner: Aileen Woerth
Address: 28780 Old Town Front St. #D2, Temecula, Ca 92590
Phone number: (909) 693-3213
Job Description: Sewing machine technician, sewing machine sales, embroidery software sales and instruction
Date Started: 10/00 Date finished: 3/05

Jojo's Calico Courtyard

Owner: Josephine Charity / Aileen Woerth
Address: 28780 Old Town Front St. #D2, Temecula, Ca 92590
Phone number: (909) 693-3213
Job Description: Sewing machine technician
Date Started: 8/99 Date finished: 10/00

Education

San Pasqual High School

3300 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido, Ca 92025
Graduated with diploma in June 1990

Palomar College

1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos, Ca 92069
Associates degree in general education, August 2000

Computer Related Skills

  • Server-side scripting with PHP versions 4 & 5
    • Custom Procedural & OOP applications
    • CodeIgniter framework applications
    • Kohana framework applications
  • Web database applications utilizing MySQL
  • Client-side JavaScript with DOM interaction
    • jQuery and the jQuery user interface
    • Standard (non-framework) applications
  • HTML - The basic language of web design.
  • XHTML - A more structured and cleaner version of HTML.
  • Feed generation and parsing of XML
  • CSS - Styling applied to HTML/XHTML.
  • Apache - URL rewriting, access control, and redirects
  • Regular expressions
  • Bash Terminal & DOS command line
  • Windows, Ubuntu (Linux), & Mac Operating Systems
  • Image editing and design with Adobe Photoshop
  • Vector artwork design with Adobe Illustrator
  • Bernina Embroidery Digitizing Software
  • Janome Embroidery Digitizing Software

Hobbies

Brian Gottier - aboard a sport fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean
  • Fishing
  • Bicycle Riding
  • Camping
  • Target Shooting

References

Dawn Baker

1840 Cottonwood Pl.
Escondido, CA 92026
(760) 839-2912
Years known: 15 years

Craig Kirkbride

2433 Jasper Glen
Escondido, CA 92029
(760) 213-8882
Years known: 27 years

Anna Allen

1107 Fayetville Rd.
Suite 108-124
Durham, NC 27713
(561) 722-1210
Years known: 15 years

Patriotic Website Design

How'd I Get Started?

Over 6 years ago, in Spring of 2004, I had a webmaster that was doing a terrible job of updating my family's business website. When we wanted updates done, I would send emails, regular mail, and make phone calls to this webmaster, but the updates would either get done when the content was past due, or not get done at all! Because having a good website is so critical, I needed to have a reliable webmaster. I decided that I would learn what it took to do the updates myself.

Over time I learned more and more about web design. I had to, because a nice website isn't easy to maintain. I had goals of making a new website, too. I re-designed my business website more than once, learning more and more as time went by, and the experience led to other people hiring me to design or develop their websites.

So that's how I got started. This should be a lesson to all the flaky web designers out there! In the world of business, website updates need to be made quickly.

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