Dave Hess

About Dave Hess

Dave Hess has been working as a web developer since 1998.

His career as a developer began with the online department Richmond Times-Dispatch as a designer/developer. His first tasks included:

  • A full redesign of the Times-Dispatch website.
  • Implemented RealMedia's OpenAdStream on the Times-Dispatch website for banner advertising
  • Built a number of different websites for advertising clients, including:
    • Conte's Bicycles
    • C.P. Dean

Dave's talent did not go unnoticed, and after just 8 months he was recruited to join Media General’s Interactive Media Division where he was the lead developer for nearly nine years. As one of the pioneers of the Media General’s online initiatives, Dave helped take the division from a small, four-man staff and a handful of fledgling sites to a multi-million dollar operation supporting over sixty media websites.

At MG, Dave specialized in Java development and earned his Sun Java Programmer certification in 2006. His primary focus was content mangement and system architecture. He was responsible for architecting, developing and supporting several different enterprise level content management systems during his tenure there, including:

After 10 years at Media General, Dave was looking for a new challenge. In June 2007, he went to work for Oliver Creative as their senior developer. At Oliver Creative, Dave was the developer for the Life.…supplemented website for the Council for Responsible Nutrition, which won a Mercury award for the best health website in 2007.

In December of 2007, Oliver Creative was acquired by CRT/tanaka. Since then, Dave has been the senior web developer there, working on a number of different projects including:

Skills

Languages

  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Java
  • Cold Fusion
  • HTML
  • JavaScript (including the jQuery framework)
  • XML
  • SQL

Training/Certifications

  • Sun Java Certified Programmer
  • Java/JSP Web Development
  • J2EE/Servlet Development
  • Basic Project Management training

Databases

  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • MS SQL

Freelance

Dave does do freelance web development. Is you're interested in talking to him about the services he offers, please contact him at

About This Website

This website was written on PHP using the Code Igniter framework on the backend. On the front-end all the HTML and CSS is hand-coded. The Bootstrap Framework is used for the layout and responsiveness. JavaScript is exclusively built using Jon Resig's fantastic JQuery library.