About

Anthony Laurence Yap (aka AL2Meta, AL2Fenrir) is a Registered Nurse (Philippines), Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Web Developer, Excel Specialist, and IT Tech. He is also a blogger and developer.

Vision

Anthony seeks to unify small-time web masters, web developers, artists, web designers, graphic designers and other talented individuals to create a bigger whole. His world view aims to abolish differences and instead work toward creating a common ground. He aspires to create a community of skilled individuals that help to improve and develop each other.

Education

BS Computer Engineering (undergrad)
University of San Agustin
1999-2000

BS Computer Science (undergrad)
AMA Computer College and Infomatics
2000-2003

BS Nursing Graduate
Iloilo Doctors’ College
2003-2007

Anthony is a graduate of Bachelors of Science in Nursing and a Nursing Board passer in the Philippines. Prior to his graduated career, he has studied BS Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Most of what he knows about computers and programming have been acquired through rigorous self-study and hard-earned experience.

Work Experience

HTML and CSS — With more than 5 years of experience in HTML and CSS, Anthony is an adept HTML and CSS coder; able to visualize his codes in this mind. He also knows how to make his code clean, analyze the problems in the code, and fix complicated issues. Anthony is also able to adapt to developing trends and catches up pretty quickly. Because of that, he was able to learn the newer versions of HTML and CSS and create responsive websites. He is also capable of applying templates throughout different CMS platforms (ie. from Blogger to WordPress or vice versa) and make them cross compatible across different web browsers.

Adobe Photoshop — Anthony knows how to use Photoshop and design cool graphics ranging from artistic artworks, photo edits, desktop wallpapers, logos and banners.

Writing — Anthony has decent mastery and command of English grammar and vocabulary. He is able to write long paragraphs, and express his ideas adequately. He also knows how to do article spinning by copying an article and make revisions.

Excel Specialist and Data Entry — Anthony has years of experience in Excel, and this has made him an Excel specialist. He can manipulate excel entries with incredible ease, utilizing filtering and replacing commands and using advance commands such as data importing and exporting. He also knows how to analyze data with such proficiency and correct problems with less effort by utilizing all necessary Excel formulas and tricks.

Data Analytics — Anthony is a fast learner when it comes to studying data systems. He is a proficient data entry clerk capable of bulk uploading multiple entries in a single run with less mistakes. He has excellent analytical skills when it comes to finding out problems, and creating solutions. He has also work with programmers by searching for bugs and lack of functions in the system, and suggesting possible remedies; working as part-time business analyst.

Visual Basic — Anthony aims to one day become a full-stack developer, coding in different programming languages. Currently, he knows little Visual Basic Programming, but he is able to analyze and understand VBA codes as well as reverse engineer them and make modifications.

PHP — Self-studied PHP for 6 mos. and now has more than 1 year work experience as a Developer. He has several side projects in his portfolio, demonstrating his skills as a web developer. He has already created a content management system designed to automate and enhance the inventory system of a company using PHP, and has also created a pricing content management system. He is now dabbling on AI algorithms for PHP and is building his own system framework, engineering everything with little or no supervision. His strong area is Data Management and development. He had also experience working with fellow Developers in fixing bugs in local system via Git.

Javascript — He had self-studied Javascript for almost a year and has started creating some simple projects that makes use of Javascript functions. He has now acquired months of training in the Javascript language, and knows how to make use of the jQuery library or call server-side processes using ajax requests. You can see some of his works in his portfolio.

You can see all of his works here.