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Performance Architect

Everybody wins when it's fast!

I led Dell.com in an effort to speed up it's ecommerce experience. We wanted to measure how impactful that speed would be. So we duplicated, in every way, an existing page: except we made it fast.

We were able to increase page load speed by 10x This increased converstion almost immediately by more than 30%

We then converted each additional page in the purchase path with even greater conversion increases.

Performance Evangelist Writes a Book

I co-wrote this book. Mom is very proud!

Pro HTML5 Performance provides a practical guide to building extremely fast, light-weight and scalable websites using fully standards compliant techniques and best practices. It strikes a balance between imparting best-practice information for when you’re building ground up and instantly applicable techniques to help you solve issues with your existing projects.

In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets you’ll find advice and code samples that elegantly layout the problems your facing and the best ways of solving them. By reading Pro HTML5 Performance you’ll squeeze every last ounch of performance from your code, giving your applications unrivalled speed and cost-efficiency.

What you’ll learn

Optimize your HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript for client-side performance
Reduce your code's bandwidth to achieve both speed and cost savings
Learn to target multiple devices from the same page
See how your HTML5 content can gracefully degrade to older browsers
Create advanced applications, such as animations, with a light footprint
Make HTML5's semantic markup work for you

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for front-end programmers who know the basics but who want to master the techniques for creating high-performance web sites. It is equally applicable to people who want to architect big sites ‘right first time’ or those that want to apply some of the concepts to their existing site to make it run a bit faster or same them a little money. Whether you go 'all out' and use everything or just apply some concepts to your existing sites is up to you.

I can’t help it, slow is the enemy. I brought together lessons learned working with some great teams at some of the most visited sites on the web and wrote them down in a book for Apress called “Pro HTML5 Performance” with my co-author Jay Bryant who had a master’s in English. I wrote the code and he wrote the book explaining the code, it was a good deal.

My Story

I've worn many hats over my career (besides the fedora)

Performance Expert
Enterprise Architect
User Advocate
Full-stack Designer

I started out as graphic artist working in print for many years. I loved the creative process and was lucky enough to start my own business.

Then the web happened and I wanted in. However the creative control I had in the print medium was not to be had in HTML. This was before CSS.

So I started a long journey to get that control back in the web medium. The browsers and I have had some disagreements over the years, but that's mostly passed these days.

So 20 years later, I've had the pleasure to work with some of the biggest and smallest companies, as well as getting to write a book for Apress on HTML5 Performance. I've been very lucky.

Who's Hired Me

Let's Work Together

I love this stuff so much, I often do it at night and on the weekends. So please contact me if you have a challenging problem, or a good cause.

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