I have about 10 years experience in building professional PHP-driven websites and a degree in Computer Science to back that experience. I have built big websites using a variety of frameworks, including Zend, Yii and Laravel, but have also done a lot of work using Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla. I'm particularly experienced with building systems from the ground up using Laravel or using a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress (I've written several custom modules). I've spent the last two years primarily building websites using Yii and Laravel. As a result, I have built up a considerable amount of experience in Yii and Laravel. Namhost.com is a very good example of a site I built using Laravel. It has a ton of backend features, that I'd be happy to demo should you be interested. I am highly skilled and highly experienced in all the typical web technologies, including: json, SOAP, XML, HTML, Javascript/JQuery/Ajax, CSS etc. Twitter bootstrap and Zurb Foundation are my preferences of tools when it comes to CSS Frameworks. I have built responsive websites using both. I am also highly experienced in using a variety of Database Technologies, including: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite. I can write and optimize SQL queries, design database structures and pretty much do anything that has to do with database management. I have a lot of experience using linux servers. I can write deployment scripts, set up databases, configure apache and lots of other typical server tasks needed to run and deploy a website. I've also installed Memcache before and used advanced Caching methods to allow a website handle a massive amount of traffic. I've have a lot of experience with other programming languages too, such as Dot Net and Java. I've also been involved in big Flash projects that required deep integration into backends using Web Services (SOAP). An advantage I have over t