Jamie Edwards is a web developer/marketer/photographer/designer located in Kelowna, BC, Canada. I live in an amazing part of the world, the Okanagan Valley. I have three amazing adult children, two grand kids and one amazing wife! I love life, and enjoy what I do.
I built my first website around 1996, in the very early days of the internet. I built the site as a way to learn the hypertext markup language, which I became fascinated with. The site was pretty ugly and simple I must admit compared to today’s standards, but the internet back then wasn’t exactly what it is now, things were clunky, and the “information superhighway” was mostly used to display static information.
Since 1996, a lot of things have changed, there was the dot com boom of which I took part in and was also unfortunately part of the crash of that boom. In 1999 I started a dot com company based around travel, real estate, online shopping, and virtual tours. It was kind of like a mix between YouTube and Google maps if that makes any sense! It was really a terrific billion dollar idea, but sadly the folks I partnered with help to raise capital and go public turned out to be less than perfect to put it politely, and the company did not realize even a small portion of it’s potential and was shut down in 2001. I learned a lot through that business failure, a lot about myself, a lot about corporate business, public companies, and a lot about vetting and due diligence of business partnerships!
After 2001, I started my own web development business and several other ventures along the way, some successful and others fizzed out. I have done lots, tried lots, risked lots, lost lots, and learned LOTS in the process. The skills I have acquired over the years were gained in the trenches, all learned out of necessity, which is often the best way to learn anything.
I am currently taking select clients so if you have web project, online marketing, or other web based requirements drop me a line and we can chat and explore possibilities together.
You can contact me by using jamie@jamieedwards.com.
Here is a list of some of my skills:
- Understanding business practices
- Strategizing
- Problem solving
- Project Planning
- Leading teams
- Coding (HTML, CSS, PHP, WordPress)
- Digital Marketing
- Designing (Web and Graphic)