I Reduce, Filter, and Map my way to delightful User Experiences; I Jira, Trello, and Excel my way to client success.
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As a developer, I find myself inspired by multiple concerns. In other words, I love data structures and algorithms as much as I love web design. Over the past five years, I've worked with Ember, React, Express, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
As a project manager, I'm committed to task management, clear communication, improving business practices, and helping clients succeed. I've worked professionally as a project manager for over a year.
I went to college for philosophy and graduate school for creative writing. My schooling in the humanities improves my ability to think critically, solve problems, generate ideas, and of course, write emails.
Lastly, for over ten years I worked in the service and hospitality industries, where I gained a deep appreciation for teamwork, patience, customer service, and breakfast tacos.
Mentrs is an open marketplace for online and in-person education. We built our beta application with three main technologies: Ember.JS, Firebase, and Stripe. I'm the Co-Founder of Mentrs and helped build it from the ground up, from idea to deployment.
Eaterly is small front-end application for helping you decide where to eat. I thought of it years ago and finally got around to building it. I used hooks instead of class components.
Wozz is a full-stack application for managing habits and taking notes. It's built on Gatsby.js, Express, and MongoDB. Originally, I handled session management with a cross-domain API, but that proved to be more work than necessary because mobile browsers default to denying third-party-cookies.
Wozz is a work in progress, but I'm happy with the initial application.
Template Maker is a simple React application that iterates over one or more lists of data to create templates. I used it to generate snippets of HTML from Excel Data. One obvious enhancement would be to add support for multi-word strings.
Rush is a place to jot down your intuitions and share them with the public if you'd like. It was inspired by twitter. An intuition can only be 350 words long. And a user can only comment on an intuition once. Rush is a full-stack application built with MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.
Nobody Really Likes is a simple voting app. Users submit entries for things that "nobody really likes" and then vote on those entries. NRL is a work in progress, and I work on it when I can. Adding features has become particularly rewarding because, with each addition, the app grows closer to my original vision.
I wanted to learn GraphQL but I needed data to query. Instead of building something meaningless, I decided to cannibalize an old writing project from my early twenties. Ten Years Later is a digital interface for journal entries from my summer in 2008. I wrote a very simply GraphQL server with Express and used React for the front-end.
