Jim Graham
Owner at Pixels and Strings, LLC
Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Graham is a seasoned independent designer and web developer with over three decades of experience turning print and digital communications into polished, effective brands. As owner of Pixels and Strings and previously Spark Media Group, he has built enduring client relationships—one lasting more than 20 years—while delivering logos, publications, and custom CMS-driven websites. Technically adept, Jim contributes to open-source projects like MODX Revolution, improving backend package providers and modernizing build workflows to support ES6 and Dart Sass. Based in Takoma Park, MD, he brings a rare blend of artistic sensibility, pragmatic engineering, and nonprofit stewardship—recently leading a successful digital transformation and Google Workspace rollout for the Takoma Foundation. His background in music and accounting informs a detail-oriented, creative approach to problem solving that balances aesthetics with operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Media & Web Technology, Digital Media & Web Technology at Montgomery CollegeAccounting, Accounting at Towson University
Github Skills (8)
content-management-system10
php10
modx10
content-management10
php-framework9
javascript9
sass8
mysql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
modxcms/revolution
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:238 reviews, 48 commits, 107 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the MODX Revolution content management framework by addressing bug fixes and enhancements related to package providers. Their work involved improving field selection errors, resolving issues with the ChangeProvider window, and preventing PHP warnings. The user also modernized the manager template build workflow by updating development packages and configurations to support ES6 JavaScript and the Dart Sass implementation.
cmsphprevolutionmodx-revolutioncontent-management
smg6511/revolution
Dec 2016 - Mar 2025
MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework
Contributions:4 PRs, 457 pushes, 224 branches in 8 years 4 months
cmsphprevolutionmodx-revolutioncontent-management
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