About Me
I have a B.S. in Informatics with a Music minor from Indiana University. I briefly interned at Tribeswell where I developed and maintained WordPress sites. I previously interned and am currently a developer at Ascension Technologies, working primarily on Alexa skills development for Ascension Living fascilities.
I love to learn and pick up new technologies, and I have a passion for web development. I would love an opportunity to utilize and build my skillset in an environment of like-minded individuals.
I am a husband, a father, a musician, and a general nerd. Feel free to shoot me an email.
My Skills
Some of my strong skills
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- React
- Git
- Java
- Python
Study
Skills I have been learning recently
- Mastering JavaScript fundamentals
- Next.js
- Node
- Alexa Skills Kit (JavaScript, Java)
- GraphQL
- Everything I can
Projects
Flightless Nerd Website
I am developing this website as a freelance side project. It is for a media network with a focus on video game news and reviews. This site has been my first full-stack, production-grade project, utilizing a broad set of my skills.
I have learned many valuable lessons throughout the development of this site. To name a few:
- I have a much deeper understanding of React and in particular Next.js.
- I prototyped with Bootstrap but forced myself to strip it out and build everything from scratch, including the carousel, cards, and navbar.
- I gained experience developing and implementing a custom MongoDB API.
- I learned a great deal about preparing the site for production, including properly securing a Node server, setting up a VPS and deploying and running the site with PM2.
Django Blog
I have a fair amount of experience with Python, so I felt looking into Django was a good choice while deciding which web fameworks I should learn.
From this project I learned quite a bit about routing, in Django and the concept in general, as well as gained an understanding of Django models and the Django API.
GitHub Viewer Angular App
This was a tutorial code-along AngularJS application. The user enters a GitHub username and the app makes a HTTP request to the GitHub API and returns a list of the user's repositories.
Two significant lessons I took away from this project were the use of promises and JSON objects, and leveraging modular development.
Ipsum Beer and Wine
I built this landing page for a development test as a job applicant for a front-end development position.
Building this page was good practice utilizing Bootstrap for responsiveness, and a refresher in Sass, which I had not used in some time. I also learned how to use Jekyll to componentize and build the page, and how to deploy and host on Netlify.