Phoenix Arizona

Been lurking a bit on the site, figured it was time to take the plunge. :-)
I came to the Phoenix area in September 2008 to start a new life as a web developer. I used to be a university biochemistry lecturer, but I've gotten over that. I stated by migrating an existing site from ColdFusion to PHP/MySQL and adding to its capabilities. I'm pretty new to Drupal, having started trying to add even more new functions with Drupal since Oct. 2009. I've gotten over that initial two-month feeling of beating my head against the wall. We hope to do a beta-testing launch by the end of February.

Hi everyone, My name is Maximo Mena; I live in Mesa and go to ASU Polytechnic. Inspired by my uncle, who built a web portal for his hometown, I decided to get really good at web design and development. With the help of w3schools.com and many other tutorials, I taught myself how to hand code PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Initially I used to create small web sites from scratch, but I found myself spending a great deal of time programming basic functionality such as user authentication. In other words I was reinventing the wheel.