CMS work, startup launches, financial services, and full-stack web foundations · 2006-2012
Content Portals, Startups, and Early Web Applications
I worked at Jobsync, Gorilla Nation/Evolve Media, Capital Group, and Fidelity National Financial. Those content-heavy jobs built the base for my later Angular work.
The hands-on web foundation — CMS, full-stack, and browser-baseline work — that everything Angular later stood on.
Business problem
What needed to be solved
Teams needed richer interfaces, mobile-aware layouts, publishing workflows, browser support, and faster iteration while still living inside older CMS, back-end, and enterprise web stacks.
Role
My part in the work
Front-end developer, UI architect, software engineer, and full-stack web developer working across product UI, CMS-backed layouts, responsive pages, JavaScript behavior, back-end collaboration, and launch support.
Approach
How the work moved
I worked close to the material of the web: semantic markup, CSS that had to survive real content, JavaScript behavior layered onto CMS pages, and enough back-end fluency to keep product work moving when the boundary between front-end and back-end got blurry.
Outcome
What changed afterward
Shipped usable product interfaces, content portals, internal tools, and client-facing web applications before modern front-end tooling made that work feel normal.
That period became the historical base for how I approach Angular now. It made me more sensitive to content shape, publishing constraints, progressive enhancement, browser behavior, and all the operational details modern abstractions can hide until they suddenly matter again.
Work story
What happened along the way
Before modern front-end tooling made everything feel named and packaged, a lot of UI work lived in the practical middle. That meant CMS templates, jQuery behavior, responsive CSS, and back-end integration. It also meant browser baselines and production systems that had to be handled with patience.
Jobsync brought startup launch pressure and a Python/Django back-end. Gorilla Nation and Evolve Media brought Joomla, PHP, MySQL, microsites, and content portals. Capital Group and Fidelity National Financial added older enterprise web environments: JSP, Flex, Classic ASP, VBScript, SQL Server, SOAP, and Web Services.
Supporting details
Places, tools, and repeated patterns.
Where this work happened
Highlights
startup launch · CMS components · financial web applications · browser baselines · analytics reporting
Environment
Python · Django · PHP · MySQL · Joomla · Classic ASP · VBScript · JSP · SOAP · Web Services
Tools and materials
HTML5 · CSS3 · JavaScript · jQuery · Python · Django · PHP · Joomla · Classic ASP · SQL Server