Welcome to the online resume/portfolio of Abinadi Ayerdis.
I have worked as a computer tech and as a webmaster. My passion, however, is building websites: especially if they are dynamic. I like creating clean, standards compliant sites. This page will illustrate some of the sites I've built as well as some of my skills which include:
MS Word (.doc) copy of my resume.
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Contact me at [abinadi AT ayerdis DOT com].
I helped maintain the website of the Division of Housing and Food Services at the University of Texas at Austin. It is a large site that is almost entirely held in an oracle database. There is an extensive content management system to allow a number of people to create pages inside of a template without having to know a lot of html. It is run on an Apache web server using PHP. I principally helped in the conversion from PHP 4 to 5.
UT is planning a gallery of great Texas women and they wanted a website to accompany it. The site was to essentially be a link farm with a large listing. I designed a flexible database in Oracle that holds the information of over 800 famous Texas women. I used PHP to retrieve the information from the database for the information on each woman. I also created a random quote generator that places quotes from these women at the top of each page.
I also created a management system to administrate the Great Texas Woman listing. This management level allows complete control over each entry and lies beneath a security layer. The security is also admistratable so that access can be granted on those that do the data entry for each great Texas woman.
A link to this site cannot be supplied due to the security. However, you can see a screenshot here and here.
The University of Texas has just built a new dorm named after Almetris "Mama" Duren. A ceremony marking its opening will take place in late 2007. They needed a website to accompany the celebration. It is currently in the creation process, but this still represents good coding style and is a bit different from other work I've done. It is a static site so no PHP was used to create it. (In case you haven't noticed, PHP is my forte.)
Though it is true this is my personal blog, it serves as a good example of a lot of skills coming together in one place. I started it in Jan. 2004. I designed and programmed the entire content management system from scratch. It has a complete membership system as well as a complete administrative backend. The database management system is MySQL and the blog itself is done in PHP. The site is a continual work in progress. I am currently working on a complete overhaul of the entire site that will take advantage of PHP 5's new features of better OOP and XML.