Age: 38 years old
Location: Henderson, Nevada, USA
Contact: dylan<at>kurtz.dk
Born and raised, not in West Philadelphia, but just west of West Philadelphia in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, USA (DELCO)
I've always loved art and computers.
When I wasn't drawing, I was inputing my hockey cards into spreadsheets.
I started my web journey with an Excite email.
Built websites with Geocities and Homestead.
Learned CSS while customizing my MySpace profile.
PHP + MySQL through Lynda tutorials.
I'm not "classically" trained. (i.e. no college experience)
My education is ongoing and never-endin|
M3 USA
Web Engineer
Oct 2015 – Present
Primarily ColdFusion (Lucee) web development on Windows Servers with Microsoft SQL databases.
Mixed focus on front and back-end. Minimal design input while conforming to existing look and feel.
Frequent use of Visual Studio Code, Microsoft SQL Studio, Git
Volution, Inc.
Freelance Developer
Oct 2015 – 2025
Wizard of application development for interactive displays at conferences and exhibits alike.
Creating executables with ElectronJS, based on Chromium, that makes use of exhibitor API's for data collection and live metrics.
Often working with VSCode, barcode scanners & decryption (QR, PDF417, Aztec), Lucee CFML, MySQL, SQLite.
ARK Media, Inc.
Senior Programmer
Apr 2013 – Oct 2015
An eye for details required in a heavily Pharma centric digital agency.
Bringing conference booth displays to life with Adobe AIR packaged Flash (ActionScript3) applications.
Handling delivery of digital content requests in real-time and booth staff competition for attendee engagements.
The American Law Institute
Programmer
May 2008 – Apr 2013
My entry into the workforce. Starting as a junior developer, working part-time, hired full-time.
This is where I learned Adobe ColdFusion and real-world web development outside of my personal hobby sites.
#HTML #CSS #ColdFusion #CFML #Lucee #Javascript #JQuery #SQL #MySQL #T-SQL #PostgreSQL #ElectronJS #NodeJS #Data_Collection #Barcode_Scanning #Photoshop