About

About Myself

Currently, I work full-time at Course Development & Web Services at the University of Central Florida. I am part of the Advanced System team who’s been responsible for creating enterprise, university-wide applications such as eCommunity and FormManager. Also, the team adds some functionality to the UCF portal and interfaces the main website with the content management system. Another enterprise-level application that is going through its first launch is ePortfolio. There have been three main projects to which I have contributed after joining the team in July 2007. The projects RedBeard, UCF.edu Redesign, and an OpenID Provider have provided me with a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities to learn new things.

Even though I am currently working full-time, I am still open to freelance jobs that may come along. If a job along the lines of my expertise comes along and requires no more than 10 hours a week (more may be possible in short bursts, but would be unsustainable), I should be able to accommodate.

Please use this site to browse through my experience and feel free to contact me about freelance opportunities. The best method of contact is to point your mailings toward gallard at gregallard dotcom.

About My Interests

I am always interested in learning new things, but these are some things I know I enjoy doing.

  • Query Optimization
  • Programming Challenging Applications
  • Enhancing Authorization Scripts
  • Utilizing Open Standards

About My Goals

It has been a goal of my for a while to spread the knowledge that I have to anyone that is interested. This may be in the form of Teaching at a University, presenting at conferences, or posting information on a weblog. I will probably find a comfortable balance of some of those methods since I currently already have a blog and I will be presenting at a conference. Whether I do decide to teach in a university setting, I would like to attend graduate school. Whether or not I stay at UCF for this or investigate international opportunities, I am not sure yet.

About The Site

The site has been created to showcase all of the projects I have had the opportunity to develop. On each post, information about my involvement in projects is detailed.

WordPress is powering the website and I modified a skin created by this person (it was closer to what I was planning on designing than the default). I have disabled comments since the site is for me to provide information, however, discussion is encouraged at Code Spatter where I contribute posts about useful information I glean from working on awesome projects.