April 2019 - present
January 2018 - April 2019
Building React UI components with a connected Redux store
Maintaining and scaling NodeJS API with new endpoints available for consumption by in-house React app and outside third-parties
Establishing process between developers and project managers for better communication flow
Reduced deployment time and effort with new CI/CD pipeline using AWS tools
Continually evolving environment architecture through EC2 instances, elastic load balancing, S3 buckets, and docker containers
Learning NoSQL database modeling techniques with Mongo collections
Creating C# API to consume and return Word/Excel documents after Open Office XML manipulation
August 2017 - December 2017
Garnered skills in SPAs, progressive web apps and UI development
Collaborated with peers using GitHub flow and process from code review and QA testing
Improved client homepage loading time by eight seconds through multiple optimization practices
January 2015 - August 2017
(Please note that because of all of my example websites are live, clients have taken over and possibly caused parts of the website to break.)Led the development team in weekly code reviews, team meetings, and innovative front-end practices
Kept team on process and inline with agile methodologies using JIRA software
Applied teaching skills to mentor junior front-end web developers on code problems and collaborated with designers to troubleshoot and solve visual problems
Built custom, scalable WordPress sites from the ground up starting with a bare-bones theme
Developed a WordPress plugin to easily integrate social media feeds using the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn APIs
Created front-end performance process to improve measures within WordPress websites
Worked with many CRM systems to integrate client forms and workflows with their websites
Developed and maintained WordPress websites while managing the MySQL databases
Learned best front-end web practices and tricks to writing cross-browser code
Amplified skills in Git version control, GitHub and command line tools
Redeveloped a dated website with Flash into a modern animation website, using HTML5/Javascript
February 2015 - July 2015
Assisted with light Python programming in the Flask microframework to edit the Semantic Arts website and side project websites
Increased knowledge of SEO integration with code and Google Analytics practices
January 2014 - July 2014
June 2018 - Present
With each refresh of the page, you will be served a random MadLib from an API. Fill out the MadLib (more fun if you play with someone!), click the submit button at the bottom, and it will search the Giphy API for each of the terms you typed in the MadLib and then replace the term with an appropriate Gif. (I kept the rating on the API PG!)
This is a freelance website I built for a landscape photographer. I created a PHP solution to cut images up into thirds, after uploading, to avoid users from stealing the imagery. (Beautiful scenery! Please check this one out, if only for the photography.)
My coworker thought he could beat me in the office March Madness bracket. Here's how it turned out.
May 2016
March 2016 - April 2016
Graduation Date December 2014
Information Science & Technology minor
Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 & Flexbox
Get Started with Rust, WebAssembly, and Webpack
React Native at Airbnb: The Technology