Senior Instructor

About

  • Website:

    benoconnor.com
  • Office Hours:

    Clark C256B
  • Role:

    Faculty
  • Position:

    • Senior Instructor
  • Concentration:

    • Web Development
    • Visual Communication
  • Department:

    • Journalism & Media Communication
  • Education:

    • B.S. Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University
    • M.S. Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado State University

Biography

Ben O'Connor is a contract web designer/developer. He has developed dozens of web sites for corporate clients. In addition to his contract work, Ben worked for a startup internet company, Cybercrop.com, and assisted in the development of an agribusiness web-based trading application.

Ben is intimately familiar with design concepts, graphic design and optimization, Cascading Style Sheets and coding in HTML. He also has extensive experience in developing database-driven sites using PHP and MySQL, and in administering web servers using Apache.

Ben has been photographing landscapes in western United States, and vintage signage along Route 66 and other highways for decades.

Ben is also a working musician who plays 80-100 dates in an average year in the Rocky Mountain region.