Portfolio | Josh Miller

ONE

Graduated from Purdue University

Liberal Arts degree

Visual Communications & Design
Four Year Degree

Student / Internships / Freelance

Web Development Experience (Whoa! A freelance site from 2002 is still up!)

Programming Education

Everything I know about programming,
I learned the hard way.

TWO

My work as a freelancer got the attention of one of the local Ad Agencies. Two interviews and an internship later, I had myself a job in advertising. During my first year there, I created many custom PHP web applications.

Hired Full-Time at Haan Marketing+Communications

Multi-user student driver and advertiser management systemCampusCarAds.com
Custom e-newsletter application for sending campaignsCustom E-News App
Using object oriented PHP, I created a custom CMSCustom CMS
Large corporate web site, complete with a unique search toolLocal Search

THREE

During my second year at HM+C, I was entrusted with larger projects and selling our services. We didn't have any sales materials for web development, so I developed a complete web strategy process.

Web Strategy and Big Budgets

Strategy & Big Budgets

Over the years I have learned that solid goals and good, actionable, strategies are more valuable than sounding fancy and wordy for big and small sites.

Excerpt showing Goal, Rationale, and Strategy

Goal: Increase Qualified Leads. [Widgets Inc.] wants to create more business and that requires more qualified customers. To accomplish this goal, prospective clients need to find you, get to know you, and then call you. . . . Strategy: Call [Widgets Inc.]. We will encourage direct communication back to [Widgets Inc.] in many ways: . . . Action: Enhanced Online Map Listings. Since the web is the new Yellow Book, let's try to enhance as many of the local search listing services for [Widget Inc.] as possible. Recommended Local Search Listings: Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Yelp.

FOUR

During my third and fourth year at HM+C, I found Drupal and more than doubled the number of projects I could work on.
As a volunteer for Drupalcon Paris, I actually got to talk to Dries quite a bit. I even held one end of the Cat-5e ribbon for when Dries cut it to start the conference.

As a volunteer for Drupalcon Paris, I actually got to talk to Dries quite a bit. I even held one end of the Cat-5e ribbon for when Dries cut it to start the conference.

I found open-source! Drupal

I strongly disliked content management systems. They seemed like closed one-off features that fell into oblivion. I stumbled onto cakePHP and created one, painfully slow, object-oriented site before realizing that there had to be something better. Drupal 6 had just been released and views and cck were new to me, boy did I have a lot to learn. Two Drupalcons (DC & Paris) and now I'm developing my own modules, creating dozens of unique themes, and trying to help with D7 in any way I can.

FIVE

After five years, it's time to take the next step.

It's 2010 and I’m still actively working on a number of projects at Haan Marketing+Communcations. I've decided to check in with some of my favorite Drupal companies to see if you guys might be interested in talking to someone who is crazy-passionate about building web sites for a variety of clients.

I can't wait to start wielding hook_form_alter() and hook_nodeapi() with solid estimates and strategies to back them up for your company. Just let me at 'em!