Hi, I'm
Mike DurbinMy career goals are to create, inspire, and to enjoy what I do. As a result I study a broad range of subjects related to web development and design. Developing for the web satisfies my need to be both creative and cerebral in my day to day life and moves at a wonderfully rapid pace to prevent boredom and stagnation.
Owner, Midnight Viking
Indianapolis, IN — 2013 to Current
Wanted more flexibility in my workflow. I Maintained Propeller Marketing as a primary client and have worked on a great number of sites related to tourism and travel for many of Indiana’s southern Counties. Heavily deadline based to coincide with advertising runs.
Currently my focus has been on Wordpress Theme & Plugin Development.
Interactive Developer @ Propeller Marketing
Fishers,IN — 2010- 2013
I fulfilled a Jack-of-all trades role and handled all of the interactive development such as web-design, development, interactive ad creation, and newsletter and email campaigns. I also built several utility tools to assist the company in its daily operations.
Accomplishments- Custom built CMS
- Adherence to strict deadlines with side along media runs.
- Several websites completed from design to finish
- Interactive media ads for large publications.
Owner, Durbin Design
Indianapolis, IN — 2008-2010
I worked with many clients after striking out on my own. Focused on design, but still worked heavily in PHP. Built & designed over 25 websites. Did strictly coding work for roughly over 40 websites. Worked with several high reputation companies.
Web Developer, JDR Web
Indianapolis, IN — 2006-2008
My first professional development job. I learned a lot and consider it my launching pad into web development. I started with just standard HTML/CSS/JS knowledge and worked my way into the heavier side of development involving ASP/PHP/MySQL.
Skill List:
Currently in Use
- PHP & MySQL
- Javascript
- HTML/CSS & other markups
- SASS is my prefered CSS preprocessor
- Wordpress theme/plugin development
- Grunt/Webpack
- GIT
Side usage and current study
- React
- GatsbyJS (this site)
- GraphQL
- Even more webpack
- AWS
Past usage
- ActionScript 3 (Flash games!)
- ASP
- C#
- PHP MVC Framworks
(cakePHP, CodeIgniter, Yeoman)
About Me
I am a web developer from Indiana. Originally I attended college for Game Design & Development, but was offered a position doing web development after I assisted a professor with one of their work contracts. I have done both design and development through the years, but always end up back on the development side.
Mostly, I just love to learn. Being a web developer is great because I have to learn constantly to stay apace, but its not the sole subject I enjoy. Physics, cosmology, and biology are some of my favorites to learn from. And there is so much to learn!
When I'm not busy researching curiousities, my time is best filled with pretend dinosaurs & video games alongside my significant other and our 8 year old son.
Contact Me
Email is the best way to get ahold of me. moc.laimg@ngisednibrud