My name is Francis Yaconiello, and I'm a local Richmond web developer and VCU student. I have 4 years of professional PHP development experience. Three years of which I spent working at Ameronix, a local Richmond web development firm, creating enterprise level websites. A year ago I quit, realizing that I had outgrown the company, and left to pursue freelance work and to complete my degree.

I graduated from a Virginia Beach High School in 05, with a keen interest in programming. I moved to Richmond to attend Virginia Commonwealth University, initially declaring Computer Science as my major. My first semester however, I was unable to get into a section of CS's Introduction to Programming class. So instead, I took an Information Systems Intro class. I realized a semester later, after attending the CS introduction class, that while computer science theory is interesting, the real world applications offered by IS are much more fulfilling. I switched my major to Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science, and haven't looked back. I plan to graduate in 2010.

Programming languages known (skill level): PHP (Master =P), Java (Very Strong), Javascript (Very Strong), C#.NET (Familiar), C++ (Familiar), Ruby (Some), and Perl (Some).

Markup languages known (skill level): HTML (Very Strong), XML (Very Strong), CSS (Strong). I understand that CSS isn't a markup language, but it seemed to fit best in this category. In addition, I must state that while I understand and can implement CSS well, I have no eye for design. I prefer to leave design related endeavers to artists with true talent. Look at this site, case and point.

MVC Frameworks known (skill level): Zend Framework (Very Strong), Code Ignitor (Strong), CakePHP (Moderate). Some other technologies that aren't quite MVC frameworks, but deserve mention: Wordpress (Very Strong), Drupal (Familiar).