Brian's Web Design

About Me

Hello, and thank you for coming to my website!

This "All About Brian" page is sort of an online resume, so that you can learn more about me. Since I have a Portfolio Page that shows my work on the web, these website projects have not been included in the work experience section. As a freelance web designer, I have also worked on portions of people's websites that were so poorly designed (not by me), that I would be embarrassed to be associated with them. That said, if there is anything else you would like to know about me, please use the message form on my Contact Page to send me a message.

Thank you,
Brian Gottier

Location

I currently live in, and primarily work out of Temecula, CA. I was raised and lived in Escondido, CA for 28 years. I frequently go to Escondido and North San Diego County, and still consider this area part of my home territory. I moved from Escondido in 2002, and am happy with living in Riverside County.

Work Experience - past 10 years (excluding web design)

Temecula Valley Sewing Center

Address: 28780 Old Town Front St. #D3, Temecula, Ca 92590
Phone number: (951) 694-9576
Job Description: Owner, website administrator, sewing machine technician, sewing machine sales, embroidery software sales and instruction.
Date Started: 4/97 Date Finished N/A

Escondido Cycle Center

Owner: Ron Ketcham
Address: 541 North Quince Street, Escondido, Ca 92025
Phone number: (760) 745-1615
Job Description: Japanese OEM and aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories sales, Inventory control and sales using Lightspeed 5.4.1
Date Started: 8/98 Date finished: 7/99

Bazooka Racing

Owners: Amir Avneri and Stephanie Shapiro
Address: 1338 North Melrose Drive, Suite A, Vista, Ca 92083
Phone number: (760) 732-3638
Job Description: Japanese OEM and aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories sales, inventory maintenance, ordering, and receiving, and repair orders using MIC systems and software. Japanese motorcycle repair and maintenance.
Dare Started: 6/97 Date Finished 7/98

Education

San Pasqual High School

3300 Bear Valley Parkway, Escondido, Ca 92025
Graduated with diploma in June 1990

Palomar College

1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos, Ca 92069
Associates degree in general education, August 2000

Computer Related Skills

• Server-side scripting with PHP (Version 4 & 5).
• Web database applications utilizing MySQL databases
• Client-side scripting using javascript
• AJAX - Desktop application style web functionality.
• HTML - The basic language of web design.
• XHTML - A stricter and cleaner version of HTML.
• XML - A markup language designed to carry data.
• CSS - Styling applied to HTML/XHTML.
• Photo editing and compression using Adobe Photoshop
• Apache - Mod Rewrite, User Authentication, & Redirects
• Artista Embroidery Digitizing Software
• Janome Embroidery Digitizing Software
• Embroidery Software Instruction
• DOS & other command line experience
• Microsoft Windows Operating System experience from v3.1
• Microsoft Office Applications
• Adobe Illustrator
• Macromedia Flash Pro 8
• RegexBuddy Regular Expressions

How'd I Get Started?

About 5 years ago, I had a webmaster that was doing a terrible job of updating my family's business website. When we wanted updates done, I would send emails, regular mail, and make phone calls to this webmaster, but the updates would either get done when the content was past due, or not get done at all! Because having a good website is so critical, I needed to have a reliable webmaster. I decided that I would learn what it took to do the updates myself.

Over time I learned more and more about web design. I had to, because a nice website isn't easy to maintain. I had goals of making a new website, too. I re-designed my business website more than once, learning more and more as time went by, and the experience led to other people hiring me to design or develop their websites.

So that's how I got started. This should be a lesson to all the flaky web designers out there! In the world of business, website updates need to be made quickly.

© 2008 Web Design Temecula
Design by Brian's Web Design ~ Temecula, CA