Staff
Instructors
Bean Fairbanks has been a life long educator, taking great delight in watching her students learn about computers, graphics, sewing, textile arts, design, relationships and their own bodies. She developed a love affair with databases when trying to meet the multiple complex needs of her patients 14 years ago. The power and efficiency won her over and databases have been in her bag of tricks ever since. She has served as a small business consultant for over ten years, assisting small business owners, non-profit organizations and community groups by obtaining, organizing and presenting the information that they need to succeed. This has covered the spectrum of needs assessments, satisfaction surveys, web sites, e-commerce sites, newsletters, branding, promotional materials and of course a variety of databases.
In addition, Bean is a usability tester for Adobe products. She uses Dreamweaver and Photoshop daily to create and revise the front end of a variety of websites, from the provocative to the mundane. MySQL and PHP are her current tools of choice for developing and maintaining the backend of web sites. Whether it is behind the scenes or the graphical interface of a web site, Bean strives for a solid, functional, logical and efficient design tailored to the specific needs of her clients.
Jeramie Risinger was raised the Midwestern part of the United States. Throughout his youth he was fascinated with computers and programming. He began toying with websites and programming in high school. Later, while in college, he discovered the joys of PHP/MySql and has been hooked ever since. He graduated from the University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Science Degree, Magna Cum Laude. He double majored in Computer Science and German with a math minor. After graduating from USD, Jeramie was awarded a year long Fulbright to Germany. After Returning to the United States he found work at a small company in Seattle, Washington, as a PHP/MySql web developer where he’s been employed for over a year.
Assistants
Anita will be assisting the Intro to MySQL course. Cheryl will be assisting the PHP 101 for Web Developers course.
Cheryl began creating websites in 2004, while earning a Masters Degree in Educational Technology, and has been hooked ever since. Last year, she left her twenty-year career as a math/science teacher to develop a web design business. Over the past few months, Cheryl has been exploring server side programming, particularly PHP