Peter N. Go
I've been doing mercenary programming work for 15+ years. If you have a web or mobile app
in mind but do not have the technical expertise to build it, you can hire me to do the job for you.
- Email: iam@petergo.org
- Website: www.petergo.org
- Phone: (+63) 916.563.1136
- Location: Las Piñas City, PH
A Little Bit About Me
My collective years in information technology spans more than 20 years. I started out in 1992 as part of a small marketing team specializing in both turnkey and custom software solutions focusing on business applications. In 1997, I went on to doing multimedia authoring from 3D walkthroughs to interactive touchscreen applications. In 1998, I moved on to doing web design/devlopment for both local and international clients. Since then, I've handled all aspects of web development from setting up and administering web servers to coding database-driven web sites even all the way to internet marketing and SEO. And not too recently, I've added mobile app development to my skills set. With my diverse background, I have a great understanding of project requirements from both business and technical perspectives. This makes me an ideal person to hire for any web and/or mobile projects.
Skills & Services
PHP
PHP is the most popular scripting language in use. It is the backbone of many dynamic web sites. Even content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal use PHP. If you have a requirement for a dynamic web site done in PHP, I may be able to help.
Perl
Another popular scripting language for web development. Whether PHP is better than Perl (or vice versa), fact remains that I have yet to discover a single thing that Perl can't do. If big name companies like Amazon, Google, Craigslist and lot more are still using it, I'm not writing this language off just yet.
MySQL
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. It is the database of choice for web applications because of its high performance, high reliability and ease of use. With strong background in PHP and in Perl, I can custom develop a database-driven web site using either language.
Wordpress
Unknown to many, Wordpress is not just for blogs. It's a full-blown content management system with a huge base of contrbuting developers for themes and plugins. You can literally do anything with it. And that's why I always recomend it to my clients. Need a custom Wordpress theme developed? Talk to me.
HTML5 / CSS
HTML5 is the latest edition of HTML - which is essentially the very core of every site on the internet. With HTML5, I can help add interactive media, audio and video to your site without the use of 3rd party plugins making them viewable on any browser on any device.
Linux Server Admin
If you're tired of mediocre shared hosting accounts that's making your web site lag or worse, unreachable, then it's time to get your own dedicated smart server. I have more than 10 years experience in managing Linux servers and I can help manage yours.
Mobile Apps
Nearly everyone now carries a mobile device that is capable of running browser-based and native apps. This is why companies are taking their presence to the mobile platform. Let me help mobile-ize your web presence so your business stays competitive.
SEO & Marketing
With nearly everyone already present on the web, it's almost impossible to stand out. While I don't profess to be a guru in this area of discipline, I've had quite a bit of experience managing various web sites and successfully putting them on major search engines.
Projects: Recent and Not-So-Recent
Agent 88Agent 88 is an independent film by visionary artist Digger T. Mesch. Digger needed a web site that would house all the information related to the film project. He needed it to be easy enough to manage such that he could post updates anytime, anywhere using any device. Wordpress helped achieve that goal. (The graphics design for this project was done by Reynir Hauksson of Studio Funhouse.)
Iron Cow ProductionsArtist extraordinaire Matt "Iron-Cow" Cauley needed help troubleshooting his new Wordpress site to figure out why it was loading very slow. I managed to determine the cause and fix it. I also successfully moved the site away from an old shared hosting set-up to a robust dedicated server.
Hit ProductionsHit Productions is the Philippines' top supplier of sound and voice talent for advertising. Over the past two decades, they have created the music and sound for literally thousands of radio and TV ads for both Philippine and international clients. This web site was built on Wordpress and done in collaboration with Lizza's Room.
Article CityArticle City was a project that I developed back in 2001. Little did I know back then that it would become one of the largest and most popular free article directories on the web. In 2010, I relinquished ownership of the site and sold it to a new management. It still is one of the busiest free article repositories today.
SignSpecialist.comSignSpecialist.com hired me to develop an online decal design tool that would allow their customers to input text into a web form, select options such as colors, font, textures, drop-shadows, and then generate a preview of the decal before they purchase it. It is tightly integrated with an off-the-shelf shopping cart software (which I also modified per the client's specificatins).
Geek Shall InheritWhen my good friend Daniel Pickett needed a new web site for his weekly podcast about anything and everything pop culture, I couldn't say no. This unique podcast gives fans insight into the how and why of the action figure world as well as catch them up with many other aspects of the pop culture universe. The web and mobile sites were developed using Wordpress, HTML5 and CSS.
TPN Inc. Yearbook ProjectTPN is a brand-centric retail marketing agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. They needed a custom personnel directory program for all their employees across the United States. The custom program enabled admin users to upload/edit employee data/photos and post them in location-specific albums. It also features an office layout grid which allowed users to pinpoint exactly where in the building a certain employee's office is located. The project is for the company's internal use only and thus cannot be viewed publicly.
The Promotion Network, Inc.TPN Inc. is a brand-centric retail marketing agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago. Prior to my involvement, their web site was built on a custom CMS which proved to be very difficult to use and maintain. I was hired to convert the site to Wordpress without losing the look-and-feel of the old design. Wordpress was the chosen platform because of its ease of use for both the site admin and the company's content authors. Both web and mobile sites are now running smoothly on Wordpress.
Pinoy Sunday - ClassifiedsPinoy Sunday is a film by Wi Ding Ho which tells the story of two Filipino migrant workers, Manuel and Dado, who discover a discarded sofa. This transforms their normal Sunday into a tale of adventure, perseverance and self-discovery. The owner of the site wanted to spin-off a classifieds section that will cater to Filipinos who are based in Taiwan. This was done with the help of Geodesic Solutions.
Adventure Kids PlaycareI was hired to help the owners of Adventure Kids Playcare re-code their homepage. The old version was done in Dreamweaver with the images sliced up into table cells. Over the years, updates to the homepage done by different people meant editing the sliced-up images and then retro-fitting back to the old layout. This caused a lot of misaligned elements as well as browser incosistencies. I rewrote the code using purely HTML and CSS which resulted in cleaner and faster-loading homepage that is viewable on all browsers.
Ripplemakers Inc.Ripplemakers, Inc. (formerly known as Layaco Media) is a promotional video production company that caters to successful businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. Both web and mobile sites were built on a custom Wordpress template. Graphics design was done by Lizza Gutierrez.
Hayday MarketingHayday is a marketing company based in Chester, New Jersey. They are composed of professionals with decades of experience servicing some of the worlds most admired companies. I developed a custom Wordpress template for their company web site based on their design.
The Action Figure HubThe Action Figure Hub is news and blog site catering to adult collectors of action figures and related toys, mostly of the super hero and pop icon genre. The site is built on Wordpress with a custom theme and features mobile posting which allowed contributing writers to post photos and articles using their cell phones and/or mobile devices.
Action Figure Insider GalleriesDaniel Pickett and Jason Geyer (co-founders of Action Figure Insider) needed technical help to figure out what was causing their dedicated server to intermittently bog down. One of the key causes I found was a dated image gallery script they were using that hogged server resources. So I fixed that by writing a custom image gallery in PHP + MySQL which was very lightweight and easy to administer.
Mile High Luxury TeamJackie Garcia and her Mile High Luxury Team are specialists in high-end real estate. She needed a web site that will reflect the level of professional services she and her team offers as well as showcase the luxury properties she has in her listings. The site is built on Wordpress with a custom theme developed from the ground up (in collaboration with Praidis Media).
Executive Surety BondsThis project required me to custom build a responsive theme (for Wordpress, of course) following the design made by Hayday Marketing.
