About

My name is Josh Zeigler and I am a web developer for Resource Interactive, an interactive marketing agency in Columbus, Ohio. My specialties and interests are in web user interface technologies, SEO, accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. I have been married for almost 7 years to my wife Terri. Our daughter’s name is Zoe. She is six years old and in the first grade.

I grew up in Holland, Ohio where I graduated in 1999 from Springfield High School (GO BLUE DEVILS!). After graduating, I attended Stautzenberger College where I took classes in web development and networking. While in school, I started ZiggyTech, a technology-related services company. My early work through ZiggyTech mainly consisted of building custom computers and setting up small office networks. This has since evolved into primary web development work.

I have many hobbies and projects that keep me busy. My tech projects include a HTPC, a Hackint0sh and DHTML development with MooTools. I also love to cook and garden. To read about my projects, click here!

My Professional Journey

To bring in a steady paycheck while in college, I worked as a dispatcher and security officer in the police department at the Medical College of Ohio. While working at MCO (now a part of the University of Toledo), I was asked to administer the departments records management system (ARMS). Working at MCO was a lot of fun and a great learning experience. After almost 3 years, I moved on to work at Convergys doing technical support for AT&T’s @Home cable internet service.

My career as a support agent was short-lived and frustrating. As Toledo isn’t much of a town for tech jobs, I found myself looking to Columbus, Ohio for work. I found a job at the Custom Computer Warehouse where I sold computer parts and built custom PC’s. I had a lot of fun working at CCW, but it just wasn’t my time to leave Toledo. In December of 2002, I landed my first career job as a web developer with CISP, an internet services company in Toledo, Ohio.

CISP’s primary business was providing turnkey solutions for dial-up ISP’s. While working at CISP, my first position was to build custom portal web sites for the many different ISP customers we serviced. This opportunity allowed me to learn and develop with Microsoft technologies such as Classic ASP and ASP.NET. Later, my duties expanded to include building other custom tools including windows dialer software, creating instant messenger clients, and skinning the SlipStream dial-up accelerator.

After almost 2 years, I was asked to take over the role of database administrator and began servicing Microsoft SQL 2000 servers. The main task in this position was to maintain billing databases for ISP customers on the Rodopi billing platform. CISP later formed YoColo, hosting dedicated and virtual servers. The creation of YoColo provided the opportunity to build my own custom, self-contained billing platform using SQL 2000 and ASP.NET. After just over 3 years at CISP, I felt I had learned as much as I could and realized it was time to move on.

After weeks of discussion with my wife, I once again pursued work in Columbus, where I was given an opportunity to do contact web development for Resource Interactive in their retail studio. With a fantastic opportunity thrown in my lap, the family and I packed up and moved to Columbus where we have been living for since June of 2006. After a year of contacting, Resource offered me a full time position which I enthusiastically accepted.

Resource Interactive is an incredible place to work and was recently named as one of the “Top Small Workplaces” by the Wall Street Journal. I have had the opportunity to work with many great people and learn many amazing things. I have also had the pleasure to work on many large projects for huge retailers including DSW, Chico’s, Express and Wendy’s.

And that brings us to now… where I go from here, who knows!

Click here to view my resume.