Contact
Ian Christian Myers
Email
Address
139 Felix St Apt 2
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone
916 524 7076
Google Talk
ianmyers@gmail.com
Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Degree
Bachelor of Arts in Politics
June 2008
Relevant Courses
  • Introduction to Data Structures
  • Hypermedia and the Web

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Going to UCSC gave me the opportunity to take several classes outside of Politics. In addition to my major I've also studied Computer Science, Chemisty, Literature and Creative Writing.

While at UCSC I was also able to aid Professor of Computer Science Suresh Lodha in researching web 2.0. In Fall 2006 I gave a guest lecture on web 2.0 in Professor Lodha's Technology Targeted at Social Issues class and ran a workshop on web 2.0 as well.

Work

Melissa Black, Photographer (2008)

The primary goal of this site for photographer Melissa Black was to create an interesting photo viewer. The photo viewer was created with XHTML/CSS and JavaScript, making used of the jQuery library. The site also includes a simple admin system for uploading, resizing and organizing the photos.

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Photo Challenge (2008)

This weekly photography competition site is a personal side project that started as a result of a bet between myself and the Photo Editor of City on a Hill Press. The site includes an AJAX voting system and a simple PHP admin interface for contestants to upload their photos.

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City on a Hill Press (2006 - 2008)

City on a Hill Press (CHP) is the campus newspaper for the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was hired on to bring the newspaper to the web. In two years I was able to establish CHP's web presence and make it profitable for the organization. In addition to the easily updatable site for the weekly paper, I also designed sites for special issues, including Primer, the traditional annual first issue of CHP, for which I made use of the Google Maps API.

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Tri Chi Sorority (2007)

In addition to a website with information about the sorority, Tri Chi also asked me to create an internal system to make communication between the sisters easier. To do this I created a simple message board and a mechanism for uploading notes from the weekly meetings.

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Rank UCSC (2006 - 2007)

During my employment by Professor of Computer Science, Suresh Lodha, this project flowed out of our research into web 2.0. The goal was to create a site which would create a forum for discussion on topics relevant to the University of California, Santa Cruz. To find discussion topics, we search through an XML feed from Google News, extract news stories about the University and ask students to discuss the topics. The site also includes ratings on professors and an event calendar.

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Also of Interest...

Other design work »

Christmas is an AJAX Christmas wish-list site I created for my family.

I designed this banner for Kappa Gamma Delta (KGD), a pre-medical sorority.

Skills
  • (X)HTML
  • CSS
  • Web Standards
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • DOM
  • AJAX
  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Subversion
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • UNIX/Linux
Miscellaneous

While employed by Professor Suresh Lodha I did work on the UC Atlas of Global Inequality, creating a user interface for visual displays of global poverty indicators.

Before going to college I spent a year making pizzas, sandwiches and burgers at Steve's Place Pizza, Pasta & Grill. Upon arriving at college I earned a living my first year as a video slave at Blockbuster Video and then Hollywood Video.

My love of writing and politics meets my passion for web design at my blog where I discuss current events, politics, the web, programming and muse on life in general.