PETE MILKMAN

WEB DEVELOPER

 

ABOUT

INTRO

Hello!

I am a Baltimore-based web developer. I have a 15-year background in Front-end & full-stack LAMP development.

PROFESSIONAL WEB DEVELOPMENT

From 2004 to the present day, I've worked at an enterprise-level health insurance app developer, a newspaper company, various marketing/advertising agencies, web shops and freelance projects catering to all levels of clients from big to small and everything in between. Projects ranged from mostly heavy database-driven internal applications to large CMS-driven web sites with various PHP frameworks to purely front-end highly advanced animation-driven marketing sites.

I've built or worked on over 200 web sites in my time so far and have had no diminishing of enthusiasm for the craft.

A detailed work history can be found in my resume, found below:

Pete Milkman's Resume

 

PORTFOLIO

Below are a small sampling of some of my past projects.

AutoCrit

Client: AutoCrit via Sizable Interactive

Technologies: PHP-based app with heavy front-end interactivity and optimization.

Other credits: Andy Stratton (Wordpress site)

Pre-launch Sneak Peek Video

Description: App for fiction writers to run many detailed and interactive reports on their texts.

Notes: Heavily, heavily optimized app in terms of both front-end and back-end. Tested with files up to 360,000 words. The 'Cliche's' report in particular looks for all instances of over 20,000 multi-word strings in the text and report back to the editor with highlighting and sorted counts in just a few seconds. It was for this site that I created this simple PHP benchmarking class to help determine bottlenecks in speed and memory.

MALE ENGAGEMENT

Client: PRB via Sizable Interactive

Technologies: jQuery, HTML5 Boilerplate.

Description: Promotional site to highlight PRB's Constructive Male Engagement initiative.

CASE STUDY DESIGNS

Client: Case Study Designs

Technologies: jQuery, HTML5 Boilerplate, hand-coded CSS 3D/CSS Animations.

Other credits: Becky Kanach-Quade (design)

Description: Unfinished site for a business that didn't wind up starting.

Notes: The panels that coalesce into the logo are randomly colored and positioned every page load. Logo CSS 3D animation done in less than a day.

REAL STIHL

Client: STIHL via IMRE

Technologies: Facebook SDK, Instagram API, Twitter API, YouTube API, jQuery, CSS3, Wordpress, PHP, Google Analytics event tracking, Video.js

Description: User Generated image and video uploading and sharing Facebook app.

Notes: Entire site managed via Wordpress with some heavy cuztomization.

 

EXPERIMENTS

CHESS

Technologies: javascript with some jQuery

Source Code: GitHub

Description: Chess engine and UI. Computer opponent is a multi-threaded (thanks to Web Workers), min-max engine with static exchange quiescence, opening book, piece square maps, and other positional evaluations. Under current development, but as of this writing, it can achieve anywhere from 300,000 to 700,000 positions searched per second.

EVENT TRACKING TRACKER

Technologies: Google Chrome Plugin API

Source Code: GitHub

Description: Chrome plugin that works with Google Analytics Event Tracking to log all events in a quick and simple interface.

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SQUARE'D

Technologies: HTML5 Canvas

Source Code: GitHub

Description: Basic game completely hand-coded (not even jQuery). Basic framerate counter keeps constant check, and if the fps drops too far, the rendering of the elements simplifies. Control aiming with mouse, fire with click, move with w, a, s and d.

EARLY CONCEPT FOR THIS SITE

Technologies: CSS 3D, jQuery

Description: Based loosely on the code for the logo animation from Case Study Designs.

SUNSET

Technologies: HTML5 Canvas

Source Code: GitHub

Description: Exploration into javascript bitwise operations and many other optimizations. Bottom half of the view area is a canvas element that reflects pixels in the top half with a wave pattern using cosine and sine.Also a jQuery plugin (plan was to be able to attach this to any <img> element, not been tested, though).

 

CONTACT

I can be reached in several ways:

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