My name is Ryan Sechrest — yes, pronounced exactly the same — and I’m a programmer from St. Louis, MO. I specialize in developing efficient and secure web applications and in designing beautiful, user-friendly, and cross-browser compatible user-interfaces that interact with the aforementioned. I primarily use a combination of XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JSON, XML, PHP, and MySQL, but I’m eager to learn and expand upon those languages.
I was born and raised in Germany, and after graduating from high school there, I decided to move to the U.S. to improve my English, which is how I’ve come to speak both German and English fluently. I completed my junior and senior year at Parkway South, where I first sparked an interest for the Web — it’s what ultimately lead me into the era of designing and developing websites. I attended the St. Louis Community College for my general requirements and then proceeded on to Webster University to obtain my B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Web Development.
During school I kept myself busy working at Walgreens as a service clerk, then photo technician, SIMS coordinator, and lastly pharmacy technician; accepted an internship at Air, Land & Sea Express as a web designer and developer; and worked at Webster University’s Help Desk. I’ve also been a volunteer moderator in CNET’s Android, Coding & Scripting, Graphics, and Web Design & Hosting forum since 2004. You can find my complete work and volunteer history on LinkedIn.
I graduated from Webster University in 2010 with a 4.0 GPA and found work right away at SLM Media Group, LLC, publisher of St. Louis Magazine and St. Louis AT HOME, as a web developer & coordinator. Since my arrival we relaunched stlmag.com and have built various web applications, such as a judging system, a survey tool, a daily deal e-commerce system dubbed Hello GoodBuy!, and much, much more. Check out stlmag.com to see what else we’re doing.
If you have a project coming up, need an extra pair of hands, or want to talk over some ideas, get in touch with me to see how I can help.
-RS
