Nick Hegarty

About Me (Professionally):

I'm a freelance web developer with a focus on PHP and MySQL, as well as HTML, CSS and Javascript standards-compliant site construction. While it's tough to show my contribution to making websites work using pictures, I've attempted to outline my role on a few recent projects above.

If you love jargon + acronyms, here is a list of some of the stuff I normally I work with:
HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Wordpress, JQuery, XML, AJAX, Linux/UNIX, Apache, Photoshop/Illustrator, and a whole ton of Java-related things

Previously, I was working as a Systems Architect/Senior Java Developer at a major bank - so if you need an enterprise-class n-tier scalable SOA web services application to house all of the customer data for your giant bank with message volumes upwards of 20 million/day, I can do that too. But really, I like smaller projects.

About Me (Everything Else):

I live in Minneapolis with my lovely wife Ella. We were married in April of 2011 in San Francisco, CA, after which we spent a month touring Turkey and Eastern Europe. Woo!

Up until very recently, I also played in a band, called The Icy Shores. We were face-meltingly awesome and have CDs and T-Shirts for sale. I was the singer and guitar player. Since the band's dissolution, I spend 2 nights a week staring at a wall, waiting for inspiration.

I also entertain a small army of hobbies, including improving our hundred year old house, making t-shirts that are thought provoking and/or heart breaking, travelling, record collecting, and taking photographs on 35mm film.