Hi, I’m Sarah. I live in Chicago and develop web apps for medical education clients. I telecommute for a hospital in NYC. For the past few years I’ve taken my job with me — from Brooklyn to Austin, Denver and now Chicago, where I bought a home last halloween and plan to stay for a good long time. I primarily work in PHP girl right now — I got Zend certified last summer and met Nola and Jen at the PHP users group here in town. I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails, along with the rest of the world and their dog, and am working on a project for fun that uses that and the Yahoo! UI library, (definitely worth checking out). When my project gets further along I’m thinking of posting it here for feedback, or at least to a limited devchix audience, maybe on the mailing list.
Other background — I got a masters degree in interactive telecommunications, one of the more obscure degree titles out there but basically a course in interactivity, programming and design. I’m especially interested in the development process of projects and would love to learn more about companies who focus on that. I’m thrilled to be on this blog and am looking forward to being part of an active community of female developers, colleagues, and possibly collaborators.

When I’m not doing this stuff, I’m running (training for the Chicago Marathon — 10/22/06!), doing yoga, knitting, writing on the walls and in notebooks, watching football, exploring Chicago, and reading avidly (novels, trashy magazines, software manuals, you name it). I hang out with good friends and my two puffy cats, Flash and Zak.

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