Front End Web and Distributed Software Developer

Wanna See Some Code?

You're always welcome to head over and checkout my GitHub profile and the code samples there; but, well, there's a lot there and I feel like it might be more convenient for you if I point out some of the more well rounded repositories that you'll find there. Below you'll find a list of links to repositories, along with a brief description of what you can expect in each. I feel like this could be helpful to you in case you might be looking for something specific, like an example of some of my experience with React or node.js or something like that.

• Poplar

  • Electron
  • React
  • Redux
  • CSS

  This project is an Electron menubar application for MacOS that I built for use in controlling a Wemo power outlet for turning a light on and off from my laptop. It's build with Electron, React and Redux.

• Decked Out Workout

  • React
  • Redux
  • CSS

  React/Redux web application optimized for mobile devices for facilitating a quick-and-easy workout from anywhere you are when you have time. Code walkthrough available upon request. The link above is to the code repository itself, you can see the app itself hosted and running on Netlify.

• My Web Site

  • Gatsby
  • React

  This includes the custom React code for this resume, which I like to use as an example of my understanding of that library. The pieces for the resume are scattered around a bit, but you can find the base page file here, the components here, and the raw data used to generate it here.

• service-core

  • node.js
  • Express

  This is a library that I've put together that I use as a boilerplate for creating REST services with node.js and Express. I like it because it encapsulates the core configuration of the Express server, and allows me to simply define routes and handlers along with a configuration that I pass in to it. This library dramatically simplifies the creation and maintenance of REST services for me.

• Quakie

  • node.js
  • Express
  • Postgres
  • Chart.js

  This was a fun project that gave me a great opportunity to get more comfortable with some tools I was interested in expanding my knowledge of. At the time I wrote it, it was fantastic tool in helping me learn Express and Postgres better. There is a node.js script that iterates over a series of dates and downloads historical weather data and persists it to a Postgres database. With all of the historical weather data I was interested in persisted locally, I created a web UI with React, Webpack, postal.js, express.js, axios and Massive.js to extract the data from the database and generate graphs with weather trends using Chart.js.

• Various Others

  You'll find a number of other projects in various states of relevancy and completion. Some are no longer in use or are outdated by now, and others are the product of learning new tools and techniques, and never really got completely "finished." You know how it is, right? 😉 Feel free to poke around in them anyway.

Still Curious? Need More?

• Writing

  Feel free to browse anything that I've written on my web site. There's not a ton of stuff here, as I've pruned much of the stuff I've written over the years as it has fallen out of relevancy. I also contributed a chapter to an ebook on Modern Web Practices a while back. It's almost sad how quickly technical content becomes outdated and practically irrelevant.

• Air Force Career

  I spent 11 years in the Air Force after graduating from high school. For the first 6 years I was a Munitions Systems Specialist, at which point I cross-trained into Communications Computer Systems Programming, where they taught me foundational computer programming skills. During my time in the Air Force, I spent time at various places all over the world. Here in the US I spent time in Texas, Colorado, California, Nevada, Arizona, Mississippi and Ohio. I also traveled extensively overseas to Germany, Spain, Sardinia, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Turkey. I separated from the Air Force in December of 2001 and have worked as a professional software developer ever since.

• Formal Education

  Not gon' lie, I don't have a whole lot of it. While I was in the Air Force, I did take some college courses toward an attempt to get a college degree, but it was tough to stay on top of that with as much as I was deployed during my enlistment. After getting out of the Air Force, I took a curriculum's worth of course work at a local college near where I lived in Ohio, learning more about computer programming, to which I credit a significant portion of the foundational programming knowledge that launched my career as a developer.

• That's pretty much it

  If you've gotten this far, there really isn't a whole lot more to tell (and I commend you). You're welcome to check out the About page if you're interested in a little bit about me personally. Feel free to browse around the site, as it contains just about everything I'm willing to share about myself online. Beyond that, you're just gonna have to ask me. Thanks for checking out my resume! 🙂