About

About Myself

Currently, I work full-time at Course Development & Web Services at the University of Central Florida. I am part of the Advanced System team who’s been responsible for creating enterprise, university-wide applications such as eCommunity and FormManager. Also, the team adds some functionality to the UCF portal and interfaces the main website with the content management system. Another enterprise-level application that is going through its first launch is ePortfolio. There have been three main projects to which I have contributed after joining the team in July 2007. The projects RedBeard, UCF.edu Redesign, and an OpenID Provider have provided me with a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities to learn new things.

Please use this site to browse through my experience and feel free to contact me. The best method of contact is to point your mailings toward gallard at gregallard dotcom.

About My Interests

I am always interested in learning new things, but these are some things I know I enjoy doing.

  • Query Optimization
  • Programming Challenging Applications
  • Enhancing Authorization Scripts
  • Utilizing Open Standards

I’ve also put up some Django examples as I learn new things.

About My Goals

It has been a goal of my for a while to spread the knowledge that I have to anyone that is interested. This may be in the form of Teaching at a University, presenting at conferences, or posting information on a weblog. I will probably find a comfortable balance of some of those methods since I currently already have a blog and I’ve presented at a conference.

About The Site

The site has been created to showcase all of the projects I’ve had the opportunity to develop. On each post, I’ve detailed my involvement with the project.

WordPress is powering the website and I modified this skin which was a port of this drupal theme (it was closer to what I was planning on designing than the default). I have disabled comments since the site is for me to provide information, however, discussion is encouraged at Code Spatter where I contribute posts about useful information I glean from working on awesome projects.