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    Digital Samurai

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  • Soba Studios

    Soba Studios

    This site is the website for a small web development business. The site was designed in Photoshop CS5,...
  • WayToGoRI.org

    WayToGoRI.org

    This site is one of Xap corporation’s Transitions websites.  It is a college and career planning...
  • National Application Center

    National Application Center

    Formerly Xap.com, this site is a resource for college and career preparation, and online college applications. I...
  • Jarrodlarocco.com – Personal Blog – Sterile Style

    Jarrodlarocco.com – Personal Blog – Sterile Style

    This was one of my first attempts at learning PHP and MYSQL. It was a personal website/blog which was...

Who I Am

I guess you could say that I'm a big geek.

I've been around computers since elementary school and began programming in third grade. As I got older, I worked on improving my skills while learning several languages. Through college I had worked with apple pascal, C, Objective C, C++, FORTRAN and Java.

During college, I was exposed to HTML and began to learn all I could about web development. It was at this time that I began to experiment with web design as well, and I've been doing both design and development ever since.

After graduating from Hofstra University with a B.S. in Computer Science, I moved to Los Angeles and attended USC. I completed a certificate in the ITP program at USC, covering web and multimedia design using tools like Macromedia Shockwave and 3D Studio Max.

While attending USC, I began my career as a web developer using ASP, HTML, CSS, javascript and more recently C#.

When not building web pages, I am also an advanced amateur photographer, avid video game player and fan of Japanese animation.

What I Know

* Web Technologies *

Expert level:
Hand coding of CSS/HTML
Good knowledge of cross browser compatability and web standards

Intermediate level:
XML/XSL, PHP, SQL, C#, javascript/jQuery

Basic level:
Ruby, Java, Python

* Software *

Intermediate to advanced level:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Good working knowledge:
Adobe Flash