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About Andrew

A little about myself... If you're looking for boring resumé stuff, you can find that here.

Andrew M Day Just Andy, thanks!

I grew up very much into art (sketching, painting) and cinematography. I owned a Fisher Price PXL2000 camera at age 9 and by age 11 had purchased my own RCA 8mm camcorder. My childhood largely consisted of making movies, watching movies, drawing, and when my father brought home an IBM x286, computers.

I attended Monsterrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, and immediately fell in love with oil painting, though continued to personally persue computer technology and cinema. I married the love of my life in 1999, and we quickly discovered we were in for a short honeymoon. This unexpected surprise would be our first son (quickly followed by my second), and the inspiration to use what I had learned in the prior 21 years.

Andy, sipping a drink

I started a digital transfer business when DV first hit - Reeldigitalmemories.com, converting analog media to digital formats. I quickly began expanding my knowledge of digital video, and producing short films and small local business commercials.

Since websites don't design themselves, and with a booming digital transfer business, I began developing a database driven website to fill orders. From there, I began taking on small website projects, and further expanding my portfolio in both video and web development.

So here I am today, providing professional, affordable website design, wedding and event videography and trying real hard to look cool sporting a margarita.

Please contact me to arrange a personal consultation for your project!

Expertise

Relevant Experience

Cher Ami LLC, 2007 - Present

Established a Limited Liability Company with three other equal partners filling the role of Chief Technology Officer. CTO role includes all hardware and software research, development and implementation for all projects. Purpose of company was to develop web applications and software for simple communication on a large scale. Cher Ami is currently seeking investors for CoachesTown.com, a sports community and communications website.

WeddingsByDay & Event Videography, 2006 - Present

Established an event and wedding videography company in association with design and digital transfer services. Business includes knowledge of high-end video equipment, use and application, digital video media and online implementation.

Independent Website Design & Consultation, 2001 - Present

Developed new web sites for various corporations using using DHTML and JavaScript. Analyzed MS SQL Server databases to determine needed data. Implemented reports and report request forms for use on the Web using ASP, ADO, and JavaScript. Developed website applications using dynamic languages (ASP, vbScript). Created content Management Systems and calendar systems for specific needs and purposes of various clients, including user created database entries, accounts, mail systems including cell phone text messaging and other user-driven content.

Reeldigitalmemories.com Digital Services 1999 - 2008

Owned and operated media transfer business as Sole Proprietor. Business included design and upkeep of dynamic user database website, integration of online payment system using Authorize.net. Transfer business consisted of taking carious media such as 8mm filmstrip, VHS and photographs and converting them to digital formats for return to client.

Samples of Work

Website Portfolio

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Videography Portfolio

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Technology Definitions

While I can throw around technical jargon all day, not everyone is aware that things like AJAX aren't just a household cleaner. Here are some definitions as defined by Wikipedia.

AJAX Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications. A primary characteristic is the increased responsiveness of web pages achieved by exchanging small amounts of data with the server "behind the scenes" so that entire web pages do not have to be reloaded each time there is a need to fetch data from the server. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality and usability.
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CSS Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
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ASP Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. It was initially marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS) via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, but has been included as a free component of Windows Server since the initial release of Windows 2000 Server. Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functions useful for creating dynamic web pages.
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