Devon has an educational background in Interactive Multimedia from Algonquin College. Throughout his time at Algonquin he was valued as a quick learner that enabled him to focus on both the creative and technical sides of web development. Being involved from the beginning of a project right through to the completion of a website makes Devon an integral part of any development team.
While working at Alphabet®, Devon has analyzed and improved our online infrastructure. He also leads our development department and is responsible for all of our online production. Some examples of this work include database driven websites, flash videos and working within content management systems.
Previous to working with Alphabet®, Devon succeeded in developing and redesigning over hundreds of websites for many renowned companies around the world. He most notably has worked with Dell, NBC, Microsoft, Intel, Telus, Ottawa Senators, NBA, GMAC, and Dodge, among others.
Devon will be speaking at 1:40pm on Saturday, July 13th in the Rideau room. His lightning talk is entitled, How to optimize your WordPress instance for Pagespeed.
During this 15 minute talk, I will discuss different techniques and tricks to optimizing your website from a pagespeed perspective.
– Plugins
– Hosting
– CDN’s
– Functions.php
– Tools to monitor page speed