Orange Collar Media was my first job out of college. I was learning PHP through Magento & Wordpress, how to develop for production sites, write custom themes and plugins and deal with clients. While each client had their nuances, I learned a great structure for managing e-commerce sites, both in their operation and their development. It was a fantastic experience as part of a small team (only 2 other developers), needless to say, this was trial by fire. While I worked on over 10 different sites, these are some of my favorites. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to see more from that time period.

Strings & Scrapers

One the first sites that I worked on was The Ukulele Site. Before working on the frontend development, I was tasked with writing a web scraper (something I hadn't done before) to fetch all the existing data about the company's products off a site that the client no longer had access to. I used Scrapy (a Python library) to do it and saved the team a huge chunk of data entry time. This was one of the first custom themes I worked on and where I learned PHP alongside Magento's templating system

Wholistic Wholesalers

This clean and simple site actually has quite a bit going on. With it's sister site, Wholistic Pet Organics, we created two distinct sites off of the same product set. Moreover, the sites are tied together with a rewards program that we implemented making for a seamless consumer & commercial experience.

Diecast

Diecast was one of OCMs larger sites when I arrived. Much of the work I did on this site ended up being performance improvements and custom functionality. This encompassed, improving image caching, regularly pulling in new product information, and tuning the site search. Through this, I learned to make use of Magento's event system. Additionally, I heavily ammended the existing custom theme for almost every view on the site.

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