Jimmy Mancusi Dot Com

I have wanted to start up my own website for quite some time now, but life has always managed to get in the way. So the fact that this site is actually happening surprises me a bit.

To start things off I really have to thank the people that gave me the push that I needed to get this done. Specifically Barry and Ronnie. I have been working for them at RustyBrick for about a year and a half now, and they have both been great.

The last year of my life has been a whirlwind. I am sure I will get into more detail about it but a brief summary:

• I got a new job
• relocated
• purchased a house
• my wife Amanda and I had our first child, Emily

Well now almost 1 year later, I finally took Barry up on his offer to help with the site, and here it is.

So thank you guys for helping me get this up and running!

Over a year ago now I put up a site for the lacrosse team I play for every summer, Juiced Moose. The team was started almost 10 years ago now and I have played in the Glastonbury CT summer tournament every year. When I put up the site, I did so very quickly with intentions of making things prettier and more functional as I went along, but life has been so hectic lately that I really haven't had much time to do anything with it. Well finally I took the first step toward making it the site I want it to be. Thanks to Mabe, our fantastic designer at RustyBrick, the site got a much needed make over. If you had seen the site before you know it was UGLY. Now it actually looks like a real website.

I even left out a few of the touches that Mabe added, so as soon as I can add those the site will look even better. I wanted to get the information out there since the tournament is at the end of this month, so I had to rush a bit. I also have plans to redo the entire picture section (which I left out for this rush launch) and add a content management system so that I am not the only one with the ability to update the website.

Hopefully these changes will come over the next couple of weeks but between RustyBrick and a few side projects I am working on including JuicedMooseLax and a site I am building for the Edison Cares charity, I certainly do have my hands full.

Lately work has been taking up most of my time. Thankfully I enjoy what I do, most of the time. For anyone that doesn't know I am a PHP and MySQL engineer. Say what? Just a fancy way to say I am a Web Developer, or a Web Programmer.

One great thing about my occupation is there is no need to be in a specific location to do work. Everything is done with computers, and therefore you can be anywhere as long as you have internet access. This also provides plenty of opportunities for side work, which is a great thing and a horrible thing all at the same time :)