Greetings!

My name is Matthew Wiebe, and you have just stumbled across my homepage.

The purpose of this page is to allow me to experiment with various web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and other bits of alphabet soup). I'm sorry if some of the things here don't render correctly- this is my experimental site, so I'm going to code to how things should work, even if that might break a few current browsers. This site should also give you a chance to get to know me somewhat, but that is just a fortuitous side-effect.

I am a computer consultant, mostly focusing in frontend programming for web applications (translation: I do websites, mostly working on the parts you see instead of the behind the scenes database stuff). I am proud to be a part of PeaceWorks Computer Consulting, a company that focuses on building bridges across the digital divide by providing appropriate technological solutions to churches, charities, non-profits, and small-to-medium sized business. We keep things affordable by charging on a sliding scale, according to ability to pay, so the businesses can feel good that they are subsidizing good work in the community.

I am also an alumnus of the University of Waterloo, where I studied Computer Science (major) and Pure Mathematics (minor). I am back there this fall, taking Professor Michael Terry's course in Human Computer Interactions.

After university I spent a year doing voluntary service with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) SALT Program (Serving And Learning Together) in Bangkok, Thailand, working with The Peace Way Foundation (or Burma Issues). Feel free to check out my pictures and mass mailings from this eye-opening experience.

I've also done some website development with Synthescape Inc. (we designed the Burlington Art Centre's FIRE + EARTH ceramic art exhibition site), as well as some independent work doing a website for Professor Philip Servos at the other university here in town. You can read more about my previous work experience and Co-op work terms in my resumé.

If you are looking for budget photographic services in the Ottawa and Montreal area, might I suggest Sabrina Wiebe Photography?

Please e-mail any comments (regarding my site or otherwise) to mawiebe@alumni.uwaterloo.ca.