Alison Abreu-Garcia

Alison Abreu-Garcia

I'm a Web Developer living in Brooklyn, NY.

I am passionate about word games, comics, taking pictures, music, vegetables, snow sculptures, social justice, and a cup of coffee in the morning.

I have a BA in Computer Science with a correlate in Studio Art.

More about my services...

I speak:

HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, MooTools, MySQL, XML, Spanish

I play well with:

WordPress, ExpressionEngine, API's (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook), SVN

I care about:

cross-browser compatibility, web standards, SEO, accessibility, you

Work

Get in touch: alison.iag@gmail.com

I'm the Web Content Administrator for Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, an organization dedicated to the advancement of Women in technology fields. I manage their main site anitaborg.org as well as the site for the Grace Hopper Celebration, an annual conference. Responsibilities include setting up a new WordPress site each year, upgrading and migrating software, integrating the growing and changing online communities, posting Press Releases and other day-to-day updates. I have been working with them since July 2009.

Here are some of the tools involved:

Community Blogs

View Live

The Community Blogs page pulls in numerous RSS and Atom feeds from people blogging about the Grace Hopper Celebration and shows their latest updates grouped on one page.