My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.

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About Clay McIlrath

Clayton McIlrath

An introduction to Clay McIlrath

Welcome to my blog / portfolio site and thanks for stopping in. I’ve set up on this corner of the web, because I really believe that it’s important for people to share knowledge, skills, and creativity freely. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing those experiences with others. I have a passion for new trends and developing highly functional and creative websites and applications.

I am the co-owner of Chosen and Young Go Getter building businesses both online and off. My businesses use the talents of many different individuals creating a unique and powerful force when put together on a project. However, my individual strengths are in corporate identity, graphic design, front-end web development, and CMS integration with Content Management Systems such as Modx, Magento, WordPress, and ExpressionEngine.

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The Bio

Faith is what guides me, and I strongly believe without faith I would have nothing. I’ve been humbled by the opportunities and blessings that I have received and I am so grateful to the mentors and motivators in my life. I stride to reach higher goals with my businesses and personal life. I also have a very quirky and jolly nature and I don’t let impressions or embarrassment hold me back from being myself or being a little off center.

If I described myself in one word it would be technology. Like technology I can be very smart, useful, and hard working. But on the other hand I can also be very quirky, buggy, and frustrating if you don’t understand me.

As far as interests go, I love technology and design. I tinker with just about everything from software development to hardware modding. I have a natural desire and talent in all things web and computer related. To stay fit I rock climb, skateboard, snowboard, and swim as often as possible!

My Experience

I’ve worked with many agencies, large and small. From corporate settings and formal wear, to basements in ripped up jeans, I can become a chameleon to my surroundings. All in all, I have over 6 years experience in web design and development: 4 years formal education, 2 years freelancing, and 2 years corporate & small business, working in everything from design to IT.

My skills

I can do everything from design, development and IT administration. My strongest skills would be:

  • Front-end Development: HTML / CSS / Javascript / jQuery
  • Back-end Development: PHP / Zend / Kohana
  • Storare: HTML5 Local / MySQL / MongoDB
  • Graphic Design: Photoshop / Illustrator
  • FLEX / Flash / Actionscript
  • Business: Development / Consulting
  • Marketing: Social Media / Analytics / SEO / SEM
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