Hello, I'm
Jim Fifth
Full Stack Umbraco Programmer
Hello, I'm
About
If you're looking to hire a freelance Umbraco expert to build or upgrade a web development project, or looking to add a new member to join your growing team, let’s connect.
Specializing in Umbraco CMS application development since 2013, I have been responsible for every stage of a program's lifecycle. From complex, data-driven applications utilizing TSql and Web APIs to custom and creative tools built upon Umbraco CMS, I thrive on analytical programming challenges and learning new technologies including Blazor Hybrid, Unity 3D, and even AI integration.
And ‘YES’, I also do Umbraco upgrades from Umbraco 4 to Umbraco 17. In short:
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Portfolio
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Underground Prepper
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Texas HC Construction & Foundation Repairs
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ThinkAnderson.com
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Matrix Trade Institute
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Cleveland Construction
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After the Warning
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Abramson Senior Care
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Social Work Test Prep
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ECMC
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Perdue Chicken
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Holy Family Sanctuary
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My Window Of Opportunity
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AtonementWYO.org
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NABIP
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NABIPvision
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My HHA
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Tetra Whisper
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Spectrum Catalog Generator
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Pricing Estimator
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Celtic Emailer
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All Husky Clothing
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Pottstown Foundation
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Chamber Pension
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Underground Prepper
Soon to become my 'Flagship' project to top all others, THIS HAS IT ALL! Currently being built on the razor-edge latest Umbraco 15, this app will be a State-of-the-Art tool to help anyone wanting to become a prepper. With a free version as well as subscription and family plans, we want to ensure no one is left unprepared in these turbulent times. And if that's not enough, the mobile apps are being built using Unity3D UI Toolkit and will connect via APIs to the website to ensure instant updates across all users. *Sorry, only a sneak-peak for now. Coming Soon!... And yes, Bigfoot is our mascot. ;)
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Texas HC Construction & Foundation Repairs
This site was built as a favor for a friend of mine. But it turned out so nice that I just had to include it in my resume. I designed the site myself keeping to a simple 1-page responsive layout while utilizing Umbraco to manage all of the content. It may be simple, but for many businesses, this is all some may need.
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ThinkAnderson.com
The newest website for The Anderson Group, this site utilized all cutting-edge technologies that I have learned. Based upon an N-Tier MVC/.Net hybrid concept, this site has pushed all my skills to bring about a state-of-the-art website using the newest .Net and Umbraco technologies and incorporating background videos and Zurb Foundation 6 (which utilizes an XY-grid and a Flex display concept.)
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Matrix Trade Institute
Soon to be relaunched, the Matrix Trade Institute is looking to become THE LEADER in schools for becoming an Auto Mechanic and Collision Repair Professional. Their new website began as an upgrade from Umbraco 7 to U13, but quickly turned into a need for a complete overhaul due to obsolete technologies and EXTREME SEO requirements. In the end I provided the client with an almost 100% customizable interface allowing the staff to do anything they need on any page. Umbraco may not be intended for this kind of versatility, but it does it now.
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Cleveland Construction
Originally built on Umbraco 7 using obsolete packages that were no longer supported and creating many cms headaches for the end-user, it was time to upgrade the site to the latest and greatest. We migrated as much as possible to Umbraco 13, used a custom api to pass additional data to the new site that could not be migrated, and rebuilt the entire front-end using Zurb Foundation 6.
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After the Warning
This has been my personal website even before I knew how to program. After 26 years this site has gone through numerous redesigns to keep up with the changing technologies. The latest version of this site is built upon Umbraco 12 with plans to migrate to Umbraco 13 in the near future.
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Abramson Senior Care
One of the more challenging sites I have developed, this site is a fully updated redesign built upon the original website. With the requirement that I do not upgrade Umbraco, I had the implement a fully modernized and responsive design with minimum updates to Umbraco.
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Social Work Test Prep
This project was an upgrade like no other!! It was built using Umbraco 4 and the database had grown to 60Gb making the cache completely unusable. And worse, there was no longer any source code to the original site. The task: Upgrade Umbraco to U8, make the site responsive, rebuild the site using MVC, build APIs to pass data from old to new site, rebuild the ecommerce to use Stripe, and re-engineer workflow of purchases and user exams from saving content in Umbraco to the database directly. Mission accepted!!! The new site is now lightning-fast compared to the older version and the database has been reduced to a mere 2Gb, a 97% decrease! That’s not all! In a few weeks we will be launching many new upgrades. The latest version now incorporates AI to provide users with hints and feedback for any question within the exam. And in a few weeks, we will be launching a mobile app version for Android and Apple devices. Incorporating all the features of the web-version, this app is built using Unity 3D with UI Toolkit and transmits data to and from the website using a library of custom-made APIs.
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ECMC
I LOVE a good challenge, and this project was EXACTLY that! Having over a dozen separate websites, my client wanted all of them merged into a single Umbraco 13 instance and share a common technology built from the ground up. Best of all, I had the opportunity to use Umbraco Cloud to manage all deployments from development, staging and live.
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Perdue Chicken
Originally built as 3 websites within early Umbraco 7, Perdue's multi-site is now running Umbraco 13 with a re-unified (and simplified!) code base pulling all product data from "One World Sync".
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Holy Family Sanctuary
Although I am not a graphical designer, this site demonstrates my ability to learn new skills, even if it is outside my scope of expertise. I designed the site myself utilizing Gimp and Adobe Illustrator and am currently building the site upon an Umbraco 13 cms back-end.
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My Window Of Opportunity
A completely re-engineered crowdfunding platform built upon Umbraco and utilizing Stripe.Net for ecommerce transactions. Sadly, this site had become a victim of the Covid pandemic and never launched.
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AtonementWYO.org
A mobile-first development approach was taken in developing this site. The client’s goal was to ensure that the church’s numerous parish-based programs and events can be easily managed through an umbraco portal and where parish members can easily learn about and sign up for on a cell phone or a desktop.
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NABIP
An N-tier MVC/.NET hybrid website utilizing Umbraco, web services, and ajax to deliver a state-of-the-art user experience. This site incorporated component building utilizing umbraco doctypes and depending fully on N-tier data communication.
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NABIPvision
The newest addition to the NABIP Umbraco website family, this project was very exciting to build. This internal site is designed to provide their employees with a library of all company videos stored on Vimeo. Videos are organized by categories allowing for easy filtering and allow management to designate if a video is public or private, thus requiring users to login before viewing. Once a video has been completed, management can download a full list of all members and the videos they have fully watched.
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My HHA
This site may be simple, but it provides an important service for my client. Providing training for nurses, our client wanted to sell a limited number of seats per class using Stripe.Net. And for each successful purchase, the number of seats per class is reduced to reflect the remaining available seats.
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Tetra Whisper
Our first tablet-based application utilizing Phonegap and Adobe After Effects was an instant hit at the Global Pet Expo 2018. Giving attendees a graphical and audio demonstration comparing the Tetra Whisper IQ to other competitive filters using tablet kiosks all while being controlled remotely from our offices over 1,000 miles away, this was an exciting challenge for me.
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Spectrum Catalog Generator
Now this was a unique challenge. We designed a catalog generator utilizing Umbraco as a headless cms (before such a thing existed) and a web service interface to allow the client to build and download custom pdf documents designed specifically for professional printing.
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Pricing Estimator
For years "The Senior Company" struggled with outdated spreadsheets to look up the hundreds of pricing plans used throughout their company. Today, all regions and price plans are managed internally from within Umbraco and converted into a json file that is used by the web calculator to provide correct price plans for their clients.
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Celtic Emailer
Yes, I build responsive emails too! After years of building emails for Celtic, we needed a way to manage and review previous projects. So I built an internal tool allowing my client to view all previously built emails and even send test versions of the email from within Umbraco.
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All Husky Clothing
Having my father's entrepreneurial spirit, I am continuously trying new ideas for business ventures. The site was built using Shopify utilizing Stripe, Paypal, and Amazon Pay as payment gateways for my eCommerce storefront. Sadly, we had to close the storefront, but I take with me much more than I lost that I can now apply for future client projects.
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Pottstown Foundation
This site has introduced many new and exciting challenges. From the introduction of a mobile-friendly interface utilizing Zurb Foundation to the building of a mobile voting contest using QR codes for voter entries to promote participation in the local county parks, Pottstown has continuously introduced new and challenging ideas that have sharpened my programming skills as both a .Net programmer and an Umbraco expert.
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Chamber Pension
This site was a more straight-forward redesign. Upgrading Umbraco to the latest version of Umbraco 7, I implemented the latest in web technologies to ensure the new design was fully responsive and would remain up-to-date for years to come.
Skills
One thing I learned over the years is that any technology you learn today will likely be obsolete tomorrow. So to keep ahead of the curve I strive to evolve my programming skills by learning and adding new technologies to the foundational skills I already use regularly. The following is a basic overview of the technologies I have mastered over the years.
*Need someone who can learn a new skill quickly? There is little I can't learn... unless if it's PHP!! Yuck... I utterly hate that language!!
Application Patterns
- .Net Core
- N-Tier Architecture
- RESTful APIs
- Response Design
- MVC / MVVM
- App Development
Language Skills
Html5/Css3
Expert
C#
Expert
VB.Net
Proficient
Javascript
Proficient
T-Sql
Enough to be Dangerous
Library Knowledge
Tools of the Trade
- Umbraco CMS
- Umbraco Cloud
- Visual Studios
- Sql Server
- IIS
- Github
- Trello
- Figma
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Photoshop
- Gimp
- Unity 3D
- Adobe Premier Pro
- YouTube Studios
- Runway AI
- Midjourney AI
- Claude AI
- ChatGPT API
Contact
Let's Keep In Touch
Am I not local to your company? No problem, I prefer working remotely anyway. So if you feel that we are a good match, than let's get in touch. Fill out the form below and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible.
Drop Me a Line
Thank you so very much for reaching out to me.
I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Jim Fifth
Always learning
never quitting
hard working
teachable
humble
prayerful