nickshontz

Work Related

I am a web developer at The University of Montana, I work for the central IT department and i am one member of an excellent team responsible for the UM Home page. I live in Missoula with my wife and son.

I’ve worked on a variety of projects.

I have been the webmaster for a professional school at The University Of Montana • I am an Eagle Scout • I have been a Java developer for Oracle Portal (and presented on PDK development) • I have setup numerous web servers, both IIS and Apache, supporting PHP, Perl, Ruby, MySQL and MS SQL Server • I have been that guy from Kinko’s who is too stupid to make your copies right • I have created a central blogging system for the University of Montana using WordPressMu that ties into a central authentication service • I have installed a wikifarm using MediaWiki to be used by students, faculty and staff • I have set up installed and configured Moodle and WordpressMu to work with a CAS server • I have played with the administration side of iTunesU • I have supported a University homepage, landing pages and CMS , written in NET (C#) • I have used Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) as my primary OS for several years • I have organized and presented at a workshop for website accessibility and good html and css practices • I co-own my own business. • I have developed several applications using CodeIgniter • I have worked on a large GIS project.

Personal

I have an awesome wife
I have an rad kid
I have a sweet dog

I like taking photos and hanging out with my family, and day hiking around Missoula. I also spend my free time in the summer gardening, canoeing and camping.

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