About

Welcome!

Mo Kargas - Web DeveloperI'm a creative web developer and web technologist, currently working full time for The Cloud Concept. I have a BSc in Computer Science and Physics, and an addiction to the Web, particularly social media and web interfaces. My primary skills are in grabbing disparate and not so disparate web technologies and platforms, eying design work by designers (and sometimes myself) and bringing it all together into a website, or web application.

Skills

My skills are broad and well honed with daily use, but I'm always after adding new skills to my quiver. Here's what I use on any given day:

  • Compliant, Standards-based XHTML, HTML - spanning 13 years experience since 1996
  • PHP - 5 years experience in professional full-time/freelance/hobby environments, from customising CMS' to creating my own.
  • CSS - 8 years experience
  • MySQL - 5 years experience
  • Apache Server - 5 years
  • Tonnes of hands-on Front-end Development experience
  • Javascript, especially frameworks like JQuery (my current darling)
  • AJAX, for dynamic interface development
  • Converting PSD or AI files into standards based XHTML/CSS templates (PHPTemplate, Smarty, and plain), either designer supplied or my own - 8 years experience
  • Drupal Content Managment Framework based sites, Ubercart ecommerce sites and customisation, general website application development. Including but not limited to full CMS powered sites, Drupal powered hybrid Flash websites, services and applications - ~3 years experience
  • Software Evaluation, documentation - 1 year experience
  • Direct client liason and negotiation - 3 years experience (mostly as a freelancer)
  • Multi-disciplinary team liason - 2 years experience
  • Adobe Illustrator - 2 years experience
  • Adobe Photoshop - 13 years experience since 1996
  • Adobe Flash - 7 years total experience, full-sites, mini-sites, games, applications
  • Actionscript 1, 2 and 3. - varying length and depth of experience over 8 years.
  • 3D Studio Max - 2 years experience, modelling and texturing
  • Maya - 18 months experience in modelling, texturing and limited animation
  • ZBrush - 6 months experience
  • Long, active history in social media

Qualifications

  • BSc in Computer Science and Physics

About the Site

This site serves as a dumping point for my online life. RD runs on Wordpress 2.7, with some custom bits and pieces, and two themes of my own design. The site runs on shared hosting provider Dreamhost, on an Apache vhost.

Current Personal Projects

I'm currently working on:

The Not So Quick Bio

I've always been heavily into computers and computer graphics since a young age. I started on my Atari ST years ago, and proceeded drawing on computer and paper up until recently. Early in 1996, while still in High School, I became captivated by the world wide web, and in 1997 produced my first online website at Geocities. As time progressed I became heavily interested in web development, making sites from conception to finish for friends and small businesses until I became a contractor during my Bachelors studies, where I began building dynamic, complex sites for larger companies and prominent individuals. My skills have diversified since early 2000, branching into Flash, particularly interface design and game design, PHP, from backend development to frontend, all the way into 3D modeling and animation. As I explored these areas further in contract roles, I was forced by the deplorable nature of Adelaide's tough web industry to collate skills into a broad package, at once being expected to be designer, developer, manager, marketer and client liason, giving me a rock solid foundation and unique ability to talk with, work with, and understand a diverse, multidisciplinary team without coming up hard against traditionalist boundaries of developer vs designer. Highly creative and thoroughly enthusiastic about technology and science, I've always believed it takes both art and science to create a beautiful, elegant web, and I push this angle in all work I do.