Staff
Sometimes it is nice to know the people who will be handling your important design projects and be able to put a face to the name.
William Dodson
Owner/Lead Pixel Engineer
William is the owner, manager, and lead engineer here at Outer Banks Design Works. William brings more than 15 years of real-world, industry experience to the company as an expert graphic artist, web designer, and web application developer. Never content to rest for too long, William is constantly learning and striving to find better ways to work—by exploring new ideas and implementing new technologies—and is considered by friends and colleagues to be the consummate “early adopter.”
William has an extensive background in Perl, ColdFusion, PHP, and Java development for the private sector and for several US Government agencies. More recently he began to focus on Ruby—along with the Rails and Merb frameworks—using what are commonly referred to as agile software development methodologies. Not many Web developers can claim to have software built more than 7 years ago still being used in production, but several of William’s government projects are still in use today.
William began his design career while still a teenager when local businesses in his home town of Woodbridge, VA would pay him to design flyers and advertisements. This was quite a few years before the advent of desktop publishing so everything he did was cut-out, paste-up, Letraset® rub-on (or hand-drawn) lettering, and photocopy work. How the times have changed since then.
Starting sometime around late 1994 to early 1995 William built his first website for a company called ABC Imaging in Manassas, VA where he was employed at the time as a junior graphic artist and print mounting technician. After leaving ABC Imaging in late 1995 he spent many years working on the side from home doing simple websites for people and businesses—all while working a full-time job in the printing and sign industry as well as playing music several nights a week. During those years William began to learn several Web programming languages, such as ColdFusion, Perl, and PHP. This also inevitably led to his interest and love for database design.
William now spends his time focusing on Outer Banks Design Works which allows him to manage projects in a manner that lives up to his own expectations of quality.
Partners
Outer Banks Design Works has the privilege of working with some of the best minds in the business. Here are just a few of the companies that we work with:
MANOVERBOARD, Inc.
MANOVERBOARD designs clear, attractive websites, identities, and printed materials.
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