Film Composer by formal training; Web Developer and Excel Guru by experience
-If I don't already know how to do it, I can figure it out!
Since 2009, I have been modifying and creating complex spreadsheets. I started learning VBA in 2013 to assist with some functionality I was trying to add to a spreadsheet-database my then-employer was using. From there, I moved on to importing data from files exported from the software system, sifting the data and crunching numbers to provide results, as well as converting information from "reports" into fixed-length files to be imported into the software system. I also enjoy working with pivot tables and utilize them heavily in my own somewhat-involved budget spreadsheet.
At the end of 2011, my family's business hired a local web development company to create a website. It was very bland and the contact form did not begin to meet our needs. Two months later, the company had still not fixed the form on the basis of it needing to be "hand-coded", so I decided to find out how difficult hand-coding a contact form really was - even when starting out with no coding knowledge. Within a week, I had created a new layout with my verbiage in addition to the working contact form and a FAQ page with anchor links to the answers below (as opposed to simply scrolling through the original site's long list of questions and answers). At that point, I fired the other company and began delving into CSS, HTML, Javascript, and PHP just for the pure fun of it. Since then, I have been doing freelance work including Wordpress themes and modifications to an ecommerce site.
I am constantly learning new things about the programming languages with which I work. As I have done the entire time I was self-teaching myself Excel formulas, VBA, and web development, if I don't know how to do a specific task right at this moment, I am confident I can figure it out!
Work Terms
I've still been at work on a script at midnight, and I've sat down to work on something in response to an email I saw when I got out of bed at 6am. Since I work from home, my hours of operation are whenever I have work to do and time to do it.
I usually don't give out my phone number unless I have a complicated project that requires a real-time conversation to get all the kinks worked out. Emails are preferable.