About

Hi. My name is Stephen Collins and this is my personal website.

I am born and bred in Philly (specifically East Falls), had 12 years of catholic school education, 4 years of college, and I am now a husband (to Bernadette), a father (to Asia), and I feel like I run a zoo, currently loving 2 dogs, a cat and turtle.

I was lead designer and developer for Construction Equipment Guide from 1999-2010, when I left and started working for myself.

I now run Black Shirt, Inc, formerly Stephen Collins Design, where I design and develop websites, web applications and iOS Apps.

You can reach me via email at stephen@stephencollins.me, or find me on Twitter @_steveCollins. I can’t guarantee a response, but as an email and twitter completest, I can guarantee that everything will be read.

I am a fan of Apple, the movies, drumming, playing piano, and wood working. Over the years I ran several movie review websites (thefilmguys.net, motiondefined.com) and enjoyed traveling to film festivals.

I used to try and keep a running tally of how many films I saw in the theater each year. I stopped a long time ago, but here were my stats from mid-2003 through 2007.

  • 2003 – 34
  • 2004 – 84
  • 2005 – 103
  • 2006 – 82
  • 2007 – 86

These stats were updated yearly and don’t include multiple showings of the same movie. I guess with the NHL hockey strike I had a lot of extra time in 2005.