About

Bio

Ara has been working on the Web since 1997. He’s been a freelancer, a webmaster, and most recently, a front-end architect and team leader for Nurun, a global interactive communications agency. Ara’s experience comes from having worked on every aspect of web development throughout his career, but he’s now following his passion for web standards-based front-end development. When he isn’t teaching about best practices or writing code professionally, he’s maintaining his personal site at http://arapehlivanian.com/.

A brief history

The first computer I ever touched was an Apple ][ in a 1989 high school typing class. The following year I learned how to program in LOGO on the very same machines. Then it was on to the Comterms (what you could call a PC) and GWBASIC. Somewhere in the blur of my early high school years, I got my first computer, an XT clone with 768kB of RAM and a 10MB SCSI hard drive to which I added the AdLib Music Synthesizer card.

In 1993 I discovered the demoscene when I saw Future Crew’s Unreal. I was in awe and dove right in, joining the local demoscene BBS of the day, the Spasm-O-Tron. Not long after that, I started my own, TimeRift. I also co-founded a demo group called Night Vision, later to become SATiRe, as well as joining KFMF for a while. Throughout my involvement I went by the alias Epeius until the latter years when I switched over simply to Ara.

Through contacts in the scene I landed my first computer related job at a wholesaler. Rebuilding their website in 1997 was the first real site I ever built (apart from a personal one I had at the time). That lead to a small intranet job for Nortel, and a few contracts and jobs later I ended up webmaster at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival for four years. I now work for Nurun* as a Front-end Architect working on projects for highly visible clients.

*I do not speak for nor represent Nurun in any way shape or form. The content published on this site is entirely me.

Faith

The Nicene Creed pretty much sums up what I believe.

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