Andres Martinez
Site Administrator

Andres has been working on GDA since May of 2004. He joined as a news editor, then soon began working with Courtney to get a new media section (which allowed video/audio downloads) on the site. Later that year he took part ownership in the site and continued working on new sections.

In mid-2005, as Courtney's responbilities to her "real job" required more of her time, Andres took over as administrator for the site. Since then he has worked with the entire team to keep this place alive. He's currently in charge of a lot of the day to day maintenence that goes on here. He handles the technical stuff such as updating sections, gathering news, working on the forum, answering emails, managing the servers and also manages the buisness end of the site (paying bills).

In 2004 Andres started attending New Mexico State Univeristy in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. He will be graduating in 2008 with a degree in Computer Technology/Website Administration. Aside from GDA, he has worked on and built a few sites, but doesn't plan on making graphic design a career. Right now he works part time at a computer lab on campus, with the rest of his time going to school and working on GDA.

He's been listening to Green Day since 2001, Minority being the first song he heard (and still his top Green Day song). It didn't take long after that for him to go around getting all of Green Day CD's and eventually finding GDA to learn about his new obsession. He's been playing the piano for nearly 10 years (though he's gotten rusty over last 3 since he doesn't play often) and playing bass for almost 6 years.

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Breaking Out of a Routine
June 16 2009

For some reason it's usually late at night when I get the most motivation. Tonight it was an application for Twitter, called TweetDeck,  that got me excited to do some work. I see how much work this g....[read more]

21st Personal Breakdown
May 15 2009

I never thought I'd be one of those guys that looked back and was nostalgic about my younger years. And to some point, I guess I'm still not. It's hard looking back and trying to understand why I wa....[read more]

Winter Break is Coming to an End
January 11 2009

School starts back up this Wednesday. After a month off, I'm not dreading going back. I have enjoyed just doing my own thing for an entire month, but it won't hurt to get back into a routine. Didn't a....[read more]

Here's a run-down of hardware and software I use to work on GDA, for all you geeky folk.

Software

Aptana Studio :: PHP/HTML Editor - I've tried many of them, but this is my favorite - and it's free.

SmartFTP :: FTP Client

Adobe Photoshop CS3 :: Image Editing

Audacity :: Audio editing

VideoSpin :: Video editing

Google Chrome :: Awesome browser

Hardware

Gateway LX Desktop
  Windows Vista Home Premium
 650GB Hard Drive
 24" Wide-screen Monitor
  8GB Memory
  Intel Core 2 Duo

HP Pavilion SE Laptop
  Windows Vista Home Premium
  250GB Hard Drive
  15.4" Wide-screen Monitor
  2GB Memory
  AMD Turion 64 dual core processor