Skills & Abilities

My career has taken me... from managing a software store to database systems manager to network administrator to network emergency response technician to manager of information systems to web master to web developer to web designer to university professor.

What’s common to all these skills & roles? Data management and design – the constant in all the information revolutions since Gutenberg.

Just look at my Home page from top to bottom for a sample of all the creative things I do in the realms of physical & digital media.

If you can describe it, I can build it and teach it: custom WordPress dev + data-driven interactive solutions for organizations which need something more than something off the shelf.

The sweet spot, that is, between development, design and data - that's where I work and reside.

Helping organizations & schools emerge from outdated systems, practices and standards is a specialty. Contact me to see how you and your students can get exactly what you want.

email: information (at) johncarmody (dot) net

I Have Decades Of Experience:

working with business & research computers since the early 1980s
building databases since the late 1980s
networking & information systems management & installation since the early 1990s
performing Internet programming, design, UI, technologies & management since the mid 1990s
teaching technology and communication design at the university level since the early 2000s
building WordPress sites for clients since the early 2010s
building WordPress themes for the 2020s and beyond

I Code By Hand, 100%

I use cutting-edge data APIs, JavaScript, WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite, Protools and Apple Final Cut Pro Production suites every day, integrating live data, imagery, animation, maps, film, audio and video content for satisfying, immersive user experiences.

I am fluent on both OSX and PC, and use cutting-edge software, techniques, languages, equipment and platforms to ensure my work is always up to date and of the highest standard.

Skills

college, university, federal & corporate teaching & lecturing
interactive website design & development
new media integration
digital storytelling on emerging platforms
social media integrated campaign design
interactive programming & design
information systems management
networking & server management
webmaster & database administration
multimedia authoring

Multimedia

digital & print

Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe Dreamweaver CS
Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe Flash CS

audio

Digidesign ProTools
Adobe Audition CS
ACID
Apple Soundtrack Pro
Sound Forge
Cool Edit
Audacity
Vegas Video
Cakewalk / Sonar
Audio Hijack

video

Adobe Premiere Pro CS
Apple Final Cut Pro
Adobe After Effects CS
Apple LiveType
Apple Motion
Apple DVD Studio Pro
MPEG Streamclip

production

Adobe Bridge CS
Handbrake
Adobe Media Encoder CS
MAMP
WAMP
XAMPP
Sublime Text
M$ Office Suite
FlippingBook PDF Publisher
FileZilla FTP
many others

Development

PHP
mySQL
Bootstrap
WordPress custom theming
CSS
AJAX
HTML5
LESS
jQuery
ActionScript
XML
JSON
PHP GD
DeepSeaZoom DZI
IA Bookreader API
Tesseract OCR API
Greensock Animation API
Stamen Maps
Cloudmade Mapping
TileMill / MapBox
Leaflet Interactive Maps
StorymapJS
TimelineJS
Javascript jPlayer
Javascript JW Player
High Charts
YouTube API
Flickr API
Twitter API
Flex / Flash Builder / MXML
reCaptcha
FancyBox
Shadowbox
Lightbox
UNIX LAMP Stack
BASH
SQL programming
Microsoft Access programming
Apache, MAMP, WAMP
ASP VBScript
ODBC
Zen Cart
SMF Forums
phpBB Forums
many others

Montgomery College

Media Arts & Technologies: Fundamentals of Graphic Design, II
Media Arts & Technologies: JavaScript Fundamentals
Media Arts & Technologies: Professional Website Development
Media Arts & Technologies: Advanced Professional Web Technologies
Media Arts & Technologies: Web Portfolio (Capstone Course)

George Washington University

Graphic Design: Layout and Design of the Book
Digital Media Design: Frame-By-Frame Animation
Digital Media Design: Interactive Web Design I

The Corcoran College of Art + Design

Art History: Digital Media Culture
Graphic Design: Junior Studio Core, Graphic Design III
New Media Photojournalism: Graduate Program, Audio Production: Speed of Sound
New Media Photojournalism: Graduate Thesis, Directed Study
New Media Photojournalism: Senior Thesis, Directed Study
Digital Media Design: Senior Thesis, Digital Media Design IV
Digital Media Design: Junior Studio Core, Digital Media Design III
Digital Media Design: Interactive Web Design II
Digital Media Design: Interactive Web Design I
Digital Media Design: Sound Design
Digital Media Design: Flash Animation

The Catholic University of America

Interactive Media Design: Audio Production & Design
Interactive Media Design: Video Art w/Final Cut Pro
Interactive Media Design: Intro to Dreamweaver
Interactive Media Design: Intro to Flash

Custom-Designed Clothing For Sale!

Mostly, I focus on recreations of ephemeral relics from the better days of the USA.

Original Custom Face Mask Designs

Stay Healthy (Or Stay Beautiful) With An Original Design

Recent Site Highlights

Aircheck Collection

I used to be a hoarder of found moments on the AM & FM radio airwaves

The Big Broadcast

Ed Walker, one of the Joy Boys, brought back the golden days of radio every Sunday night for 30 years.

Gunsmoke. Jack Benny. Dragnet. Lum 'n Abner. The Shadow. News of the day, much more.

The Big Broadcast played on WAMU FM on Sunday nights, mostly from 7 to 11.

The Eddie Stubbs Show

Eddie Stubbs's Sunday show on WAMU FM played a variety of classic honkytonk, traditional country and vintage bluegrass + deep catalog favorites.

This was a show for listening to while drinking beer in the sun in the afternoon, great music delivered with unique insight.

The Dick Spottswood Show

The "Obsolete Music Hour" played rare classic recordings of bluegrass, country, string bands, honky tonk, western swing, blues, gospel & old world music.

Great Music & Sports

Off-the-air live recordings of a now-defunct station playing all sorts of great American popular music from the mid-20th century, back when music was good.

You'll also find some Baltimore Orioles post-game highlights from the mid-1980s.

News & Music on WAMU

From elections to 9/11 to the war on terror, these off-the-air live recordings of events of the day are from NPR on WAMU FM.

JOHNCARMODY.COM ★ Full Stack Development + Interactive Design + Teaching ★ Sculpting Order From Chaos