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).

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Mini Bio
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.

Software / Hardware
Here's a run-down of hardware and software I uses to run 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.

WS_FTP :: FTP Client

Adobe Photoshop CS3 :: Image Editing

Audacity :: Audio editing

VideoSpin :: Video editing

Firefox 3 :: Awesome browser

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

Gateway Desktop
  Windows Vista Home Premium
  250GB Hard Drive
  24" Wide-screen Monitor
  2GB Memory
  512MB nVidia Graphics Card

Andres' Updates

May 5, 2008
Finals week is finally here. Been spending a lot of hours working on something nice and shiny for GDA, though it'll be a while before it's ready. Hoping once school is out (this weekend) I'll have more time to work on it. I have off a couple weeks before having to come back to work, very much so looking forward to that. Going home in a couple weeks, plan on hiking up to the waterfall near my parents house. It runs only for a few weeks each summer, so should it be grand. Photo the right is one i took of it a few years back. Got a couple new people to help out with the site. Hope to have them participating soon enough.

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March 27, 2008
I bought a new laptop on Monday and it's pretty freaking awesome. I've been using it while at work all week to do stuff on GDA. I work at the computer lab so if it gets quiet and I'm not busy, I can just sit around and mess with some code. We're on spring break now till next Monday, and it's been a very strange and quiet time. My roommate and all my friends have left home or went on vacation, and I stayed here and offered to work to keep my hours for my next check. So after work i just go to my quiet apartment and lounge around. I'm actally starting to enjoy it. I'll be updating this place every once in a while just to mention whats going on, but probably more often to talk about whatever I'm currently working on for the site. So check back if you'd like to see the stuff I'm up to.