Welcome, and thanks for taking time to learn more about me! I'm a professional webmaster, application developer and author working full-time for the State of Wisconsin but just as busy with my own business "The Huelsman Way." I've been at it basically since the Internet was a thing and plan to do it long into my retirement!
I also help my wife with her own wedding and photo booth business, and for fun I'm building an online role-playing game called BrowserQuests! And when I'm not working, eating or sleeping, you may find me playing basketball at the local health club in Sun Prairie (well, once this pandemic is over, that is).
Independent programmer, content developer and webmaster. Diversity of experience focusing on online applications and web development.
Managed variety of environmental remediation projects at army ammunition plant. Interacted with state and federal regulatory authorities regarding work.
Active duty Air Force (stationed in Homestead, FL) maintaining digital F-4 flight simulators. Honorably discharged with Good Conduct medal.
Completed wide variety of technical, business and soft skill-based courses and seminars throughout career.
Environmental sciences-based degree with emphasis in biology and conservation. Graduated with honors.
Earned certificate in electronics from Air Force (qualified to repair and manage digital flight simulators).
Earned high school diploma from Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac, WI.
While I specialize in WordPress, DNN and Joomla development and hosting, I'm versatile and always looking for new challenges!
$75/hour
$95/hour
$75/hour
I also do web hosting! Currently, I host all my WordPress sites on a dedicated SiteGround cloud server while I host my current DNN/Microsoft solutions on a dedicated InterServer virtual private server. I also provide Rackspace Email accounts when needed (extra $3/month).
$125/year (1-5 pages)
$250/year (6-25 pages)
$35/month (25+ pages)
Note that I do more than just host your sites! Every two weeks, I log into each site, perform all associated CMS updates (such as WordPress plugin and theme updates) and verify that all is well with each site. I'll also take care of email setup, annual domain registration fees and even provide direct access to your domain via my SiteGround cloud server control panel if desired.
Contact me for more information!
A labor of love project for me is BrowserQuests,™ an online, text-based (but multimedia-enhanced), single-player, persistent world role-playing game (RPG). A sort of cross between a traditional pencil-and-paper RPG and a novel (or, more appropriately, an interactive novel), players register with the site, create a custom character to play and then enter the story, acting as the game’s chief protagonist and eventually leading an adventuring party of virtual heroes on a series of heroic quests to help make the fantasy world they have entered a better place. While the experience is primarily text-based, associated AI-generated artwork livens-up the user interface, along with an original background music score and even browser-based narration. A virtual game master (GM) referees the overall experience as well, acting as a guide to facilitate the play typically found in a traditional person-to-person, table-top, pencil-and-paper gaming scenario.
Briefly, BrowserQuests™ is the culmination of nearly 40 years of general fantasy role-playing design, development and experimentation. First introduced to the paper-and-pencil game “Dungeons and Dragons” as well as the Commodore VIC-20 back in 1982, I went on to develop a multitude of fantasy-themed games for the Commodore 64, Windows PC platform and eventually the Internet, producing my own multimedia-enhanced MediaNovel® “Convictions” in 1995 (later renamed “Wizard Reborn”), a subsequent role-playing novel in 2008, a follow-up interactive fiction prototype “Dogma” in 2014 and then this massive online RPG in late 2016 that attempted to bring the Basic Fantasy RPG rule set to the Internet.
After taking a break from the project for a few years, I began revamping the platform again in the summer of 2019, improving the way commands are issued to the virtual game master (GM), incorporating the ability for the player to directly manage his adventuring party (including the ability to recruit and dismiss individual henchmen) and implementing a myriad number of smaller enhancements and bug fixes.
As of May 2023, I've created seven "modules" for the game, each with their own goals and objectives but, together, telling an even more grand and intriguing story. Click the project's blog link below to keep up with my latest progress or watch video-based "walkthroughs" of all the modules as well!
