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I am a professional web developer/designer and professional musician. I love visual arts and digital information and I am obsessed with presenting compelling and critical information in the best, most consumable form for everyone (especially for individuals with disabilities, since I was born with a hearing disability.)
After graduating with a Music Industry Degree from the State University of New York College at Oneonta, I started my primitive web designs literally at the birth of the web, on a Apple Quadra av, cramming shockwave director files on to those tiny 1.4 mg floppy drives for hard core perfectionists, aka professional New York City photographers. I am a proud legacy developer of my website that exists in the Internet Archives https://web.archive.org/web/19990221083932/http://www.highstrungpro.com/...
I lived thru the first internet boom as an Flash Developer, but when that went bust in 2001, I taught 75 kids a week how to love and play Rock Guitar.I then was fortunate to be the web developer for the New York State Department of State for 10 years, learning the charming and delicate balance of bureaucracy and web development in New York State Government. Since 2012 and working with Drupal, I have built dozens of Drupal 7 and 8 websites, but in 2018 I switched careers from Developing Drupal Websites to building Mobile applications, focused mainly on Swift and iOS Development. My first Application will be launched in March 2019. After the satisfaction of Apple SwiftUI application development, I accepted a promotion back to the Drupal Community and I am now the Lead Drupal developer for the New York State Department of Financial Services.
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