Thomas Andrew Langford

IT Professional





Thomas Andrew Langford
IT Professional

Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex


  • Male
  • Born in July
  • Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex
  • Whitewater Kayaking & Playing Guitar
  • Indie & Alternative

Résumé

Education

University of Texas at Dallas

MS, Information Management • BS, Economics

A combination of graduate business education and real world experience provides me a unique set of skills.



Experience

IT Professional

2007 - Present

• 16+ years in the technology industry

• Leadership experience

• Worked all phases of the SDLC and CLC

• Currently in IT/IS project delivery, management, budgeting, quality control and system architecture

• Passionate & qualified to build scalable, fault-tolerant and secure enterprise level systems

• Relationship building between stakeholders, developers and users

• Blend of highly quantitative education and technical knowledge

• Worked in many industries including textile, financial, construction, retail, agency, non-profit, etc.



My Skill Set

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Blog

The Truth About SEO

 December 19, 2023   /   Leave a comment

The Golden Age of SEO is long over. They days when you could hire a specialist and get overnight results are gone. There were a lot of smart people out there who soon had the search engine algorithms completely reverse-engineered. With little expenditure, you could get yourself on the first page of most search engines  Continue reading…



Most Developers Can Write HTML/CSS, But Not All of Them Are Truly Advanced

 November 15, 2023   /   Leave a comment

When a developer is first starting out, the first things learned are almost always basic HTML and CSS. To be fair, that’s all you really need to know especially if you’re on your way to learning additional skills. Once you have the basics, increases in skill levels comes through the job. Unless a developer deliberately  Continue reading…



Typescript Is NOT Dead

 October 28, 2023   /   Leave a comment

In fact, it’s just getting started. Let’s start by making a clarification: Typescript is NOT a programming language, rather a development tool. Its purpose is to make loosely typed language (javascript) into a strongly typed one. It enforces discipline by disallowing developers to cut corners or be straight-up sloppy. It’s much easier to be write  Continue reading…



Dedicated Hosting Providers Suck for eCommerce

 October 5, 2023   /   Leave a comment

A Dedicated Hosting Provider (DHP) is a web hosting service which specializes in hosting a specific Content Management System (CMS). The CMS can be WordPress, Shopify, Magento, Joomla! or any other number of countless CMS’s on the market. The other way to host a website is by using a traditional web server. Most of the  Continue reading…



Solving the Angular Router Reload Problem

 November 9, 2018   /   Leave a comment

Sometimes an Angular route will not reload properly, especially on an Apache server. The initial page load is fine, but a page refresh produces a rude and ugly 404. Steps 1 through 4 should solve the issue. Adding a simple provider will solve this issue. Just follow these simple steps: 1. In app.module.ts, add the  Continue reading…



Open Source CMS Disadvantages

 March 14, 2018   /   Leave a comment

The Open Source revolution has been ideal for a great many, specifically the content management systems (CMS). However, CMS’s have their pitfalls and disadvantages. Quite often, they won’t immediately rear their ugly heads but sooner or later they will. There exists a multitude of CMS’s for all purposes. Wiki, social media, blogging, bulletin-boards, chat forums,  Continue reading…



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