About Me

Email: josh (at) picklewagon (dot) com
Twitter: @josh

I am a freelance web developer specializing in WordPress. After doing some WordPress freelancing late at nights and working full-time as a PHP developer, I recently made the move to freelancing full-time. Past clients include ICanHasCheezburger helping to develop LOLMart.

I have chosen WordPress as my platform of choice because of its ability to customize while retaining its power as a great framework to run many websites, not just personal blogs. I love to take WordPress and do things that others never would have thought possible. The community behind WordPress makes it a very enjoyable platform to use.

Throughout the years, like most creative people, I have come up with numerous ideas. I have been unable to work on these projects because of full-time work and having a family. This is one of the reasons why I chose to go the freelance route. Now I will make the time to continue working on my “pet” projects.

I do whatever I can to help the WordPress community in Seattle. In 2009, I was a primary organizer for WordCamp Seattle. After taking some time off from that role, I am back at it getting everything ready for a 2011 event. I also help out with the Seattle WordPress Meetup group.

In the past year, I have taken a role on an advisory committee for an open source CMS program at the University of Washington. In March, I finished teaching a 10-week course on WordPress as part of that program. Lots was learned as I taught some great people.

I have been programming since 2000 when I moved from stocking shelves at Albertsons to programming point-of-sales in the corporate office. After developing web sites as a hobby, I decided to pursue that as a career. That brought me up to the Seattle area. Since then, I have worked for startups and established companies such as Clearwire.

I live with my family in Seattle, Washington with my family (below). I am a passionate BYU and Utah Jazz fan and love to play Lego with my kids.