About

John Susek is a Chicago-based web developer and technical consultant.

He currently works in the interactive division of StoneWard, a full service ad agency.

His first experience with the web was the Line Mode `www` command sometime in 1994. Before that he was involved in the Chicago-area BBS scene. He loves web development and technology with a passion.

Contact Me:
john@johnsolo.net
@jsusek on twitter

Technologies and skills I am strong with:

PHP/Perl development, Information architecture, Linux administration, CMS customization, Video compression/formats, Photoshop/Illustrator, HTML/CSS, Networking/DNS, Javascript/JQuery, mySQL, and more.

Things I would like to work with or learn more about:

Game development, mobile/iOS projects, data visualization, super-low barrier of entry web projects (registration-less participation), augmented reality, media/entertainment/mass communications industries, startups/freemium projects.

I’m interested in things like (fairly exhaustive):

Web culture/web design/web development, Linux distributions and general open source issues, electronic music, cartography particularly ancient or fantastical/futuristic, television as a platform, world history and politics, antiques/books and local history, video/computer games – both playing and studying as a new media/platform, cyberpunk/virtual reality/futurist art/culture/themes, and more.

Some notable things I’ve done (by no means an exhaustive list of projects):

  • Got into cartography for a while, had two maps I created published in Computer Gaming World (sample). Created maps for games like Anarchy Online, Shadowbane, etc.
  • Worked as lead texture and UI artist on an award winning game mod Lawdogs for Unreal Tournament 2003/2004. Also created one of the mod’s official maps using UnrealEd (samples).
  • Penguin Publishing used one of my textures for a book cover.
  • Started focusing more on programming, and created TivoTool, a ground-breaking application used to stream video from modded Tivos. If you’ve had a hacked Tivo and a Mac within the last few years, you’ve used TivoTool.
  • Multiple web development (LAMP-based) projects for StoneWard’s clients including Snap-on Tools, Terminix, SportClips, Entergy (e-mail for samples).