My name is Christopher Baclayon and I am a web site designer, developer, programmer, and consultant. For more than 11 years, I have been involved in the design, development, and implementation of various web sites and other online media.

Sacred Heart Marketing Department '04-'05

Currently, I have taken on a more noble pursuit as the Web Site Coordinator for Sacred Heart Health System. As a part of the Ascension Health System, Sacred Heart is part of the nation's largest Catholic and largest nonprofit health system. They provide healthcare to the poor and the uninsured through their facilities that includes Sacred Heart Hospital, Sacred Heart Children's Hospital and Sacred Heart Women's Hospital. In 2003, Sacred continued to grow with the opening of Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast in Walton County, east of Destin. Each year, Sacred Heart spends tens of millions of dollars to provide the best healthcare in the region.

PNJ Online Production Team '03-'04 (left to right : Jeremy Knipper, Charlie Steed, Chris Baclayon, & Travis Glover)

From 2003-2004, I was the Online Production Coordinator at Pensacola News Journal's Online Department where I facilitated the development, re-developement, maintenance, and production of several company and client web sites. Pensacola News Journal is part of the the Gannett Company, an international company with headquarters in McLean, Va., and operations in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Hong Kong.

From 1999 - 2003, I worked for the University of West Florida and the Haas Center for Business Research and Economic Development at UWF. There, I helped develop the University's main web site and Site Index system and several departmental sites. I also designed the 1999-2000 version of the UWF College of Business web site and the 2003 Department of Management and MIS site.

HAAS Center Digital Media Department 1999-2000 (left to right : Chris Baclayon, Nicole Gislason, Tim Kyomya, & John Walker)

I participated in the development of various regional economic development web sites including, Florida's Great Northwest, Inc., BrandNewFlorida.com, TEAM Santa Rosa, the Gulf Coast Economics Club, and the Pensacola Bay Area Partnership. In addition, I designed the web site for the City of Milton, FL and assisted in the redesign of the web site for the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER).

While attending college, I was appointed as the Information Systems Director (ISD) for the UWF Student Government Association in 2002. As an ISD, I was in charge of designing, developing and maintaining the organization's web site.

During the same year, I was also appointed as the Chairman of the Web Media Committee for the UWF Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery where I lead a team of students in designing and implementing various web projects.

In the Fall of 2002, I graduated from the University of West Florida with a Bachelor's degree in Management Information System with a minor in Business Management.

In addition to my work with the University, I participated in a community service project to design the East Hill Baptist Church Web site which included the training of their content management group. For a short period, I was a member of the now-defunct Ndigital Media Group, a student-based web designers group, where I was involved in the designing and implementation of the Official Web Site of a New York Times Best-selling military action-thriller author Joe Weber.

As a personal project, I created CBAC's Hydro Arsenal, one of the first Water Gun fan pages to be listed in Yahoo in 1998. Also, I have countless home pages scattered about the Internet.

For a complete list of my work, please visit my online portfolio.