Mike J.

My name is Mike, my wife Michelle and I have lived in this small desert community for over 10 years, I worked at The Hacienda Hotel and Casino in Boulder City Nevada for almost 3 years starting as a Porter, becoming a Hotel Engineer (Thats repair and maintenance) In about 3 weeks then to become a Slot Tech about a year after that, from there I took an offer to manage a local tourist trap/gas station. After I had had enough of that I went into business with a neighbor selling wireless Internet using satellite Internet to feed a wi ndows based gateway/proxy server to transmit wireless to our clients with Linksys WAP-11 access points to the clients WET-11 wireless bridge. This worked well but the satellite connection fell apart under the bandwidth load, never the less we worked hard for a few years before the founder gave up and left town. After that I took over, upgraded equipment to EnGenius with DSL and a Linux based PfSense gateway server that I have been customizing and improving over the years, I am currently using one at the office to supply wireless Internet to about 8 clients near my home and it is working flawlessly. This being said, I am persistent and devoted to the commitments I make. My wife Michelle and I have been married for over 20 years starting as high school sweet hearts with no end in site. Michelle is a House Keeper serving over 8 clients in the Dolan Springs area and looking for a few more. During our spare time we work on our house and land to live more efficiently with sustainability with things like gardening, solar and wind energy, water recycling and thermo siphon cooling systems, we call our place the red neck waste land because it is currently a mess with scrap wood, metal and other piles of what we call ubtainium to make things around the house with. Yes.. We like to live cheap because we like to live comfortably and happy, thats why I love the desert, its not easy, but its cheap. My Website Development Experience 6 years experience in PHP/MYSQL. Now working with Joomla and gearing up for custom component and module design for Joomla 1.6. Have had some experience lately with PayPal API's and integration with PayPal. 5 years experience with PfSense WiFi networks using Engenius and superpass access points, bandwidth management and will be working more on integrating the wifi server with a joomla component to manage users and online payments. 5 years experience with LAMP Servers from assembly of hardware to installation and configuration. I found that I have a great passion for programming and love the challenge of learning more languages but it does take ample of time. I can easily focus on a project until it is done with every new problem being a new challenge to the game. Im Looking for entry level PHP/Mysql work specifically with Joomla and other CMS systems to gain more practical experience making me a better freelancer. Would also be interested in on-line or phone tech support for hosting company's and resellers. My work station runs LINUX Ubuntu, sorry I think windows is a virus, but that's just my cynical opinion. But my system is quite cross platform compliant.