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A Daily Breakdown of My Skills
Over the years I have been hired to do single-ish purpose roles, like "Node Developer" or "UX Developer." But, in reality, my days tend to look a bit more like this:
Disney
Senior Developer
In my capacity at Disney, I designed and built apps that delivered sensor and location data for use throughout Disney properties worldwide
December2022
December2024
Noteworthy
Designed and built an application for managing and configuring the device and sensor technology across Disney (and partner) properties worldwide
Crafted an atomic design system using Figma and Storybook that accommodates variations for multiple applications. (Currently in use across 3 applications with diverse capacities and expectations.)
Created mechanisms for a server to advise the UI on how it should construct itself, dynamically, without a code deployment
Redesigned and streamlined an application that manages location data for Disney properties
Rebuilt and enhanced a component for programming light sequence data on a MagicBand+
Provided guidance and suggestions for the course of Front-End application development and integration
Created a series of reusable Angular components for use across a diverse set of applications
Ensured the UI maintained data integrity through contracts and validations
Updated and presented concepts for the photo association application (specifically in ride accuracy testing)
Updated all applications from early Node and Angular versions and ensured functionality was not compromised in the process
Maintained NodeJS work that handles authentication and data streamlining for 6 applications
Daily bug-fixing and assistance as needed by Back-End developers and QA team
Assisted the Project Managers in identifying future work and features, then creating actionable tickets to match
Extensive work with interactive mapping libraries (LeafletJS and OpenLayers)
Wrote a large collections of guides and technical documentation for all applications
Regular deployments with AWS CodeBuild, including occasional changes to the configurations
Participated in code reviews for Front-End (and occasionally Back-End) work
Minor adjustments to JAVA response contracts
Minor work with and updates to DynamoDB and usage
Occasionally worked with and debugged Lambda functions
Worked with updating deployment details in Docker configurations
Unfortunately there aren't any images to show for this role. That could be because the project hasn't launched yet, or because I can't show my work due to non-disclosure agreements.
We Are Few
Lead Developer
In this role, I worked with the team to develop high-quality and cutting-edge sites and web-apps. My daily focus was often on JavaScript frameworks like React, NextJS, Vue, and Lit Element.
November2021
December2022
Noteworthy
Led a team of front-end developers on a project with cars.com using Lit on a Phoenix/Elixir codebase
Liaised between Few and Cars teams to provide project insight and forecasting of direction
Helped automate a Figma to front-end development pipeline (Figma, Tokens, SASS, and Storybook)
Led code reviews and encouraged junior developers in best practices
Built an interactive globe for a Curious Spoon Foods (ThreeJS and WordPress)
Integrated Shopify with WordPress for a retail culinary brand
Built the front-end for a medical office’s booking and appointments application (AlpineJS)
Assisted in the front-end effort of a digital modeling agency (React)
Assisted in the front-end effort of a commerce experience platform for Run The Jewels and Cyberpunk 2077 (VueJS)
Assisted in the front-end effort of a NFT/Avatar site (genies.com)
Built and sometimes maintained existing WordPress themes for a variety of clients and industries
52 Projects / Focus Ministry
Designer, Angular Developer
In this role, I worked with the team to design and develop interfaces that help churches automate their data entry. Most of my daily effort was around design and user experience, but also in writing Angular (8), HTML, and CSS.
August2019
November2021
Noteworthy
Designed features for their upcoming app (“NextSteps”) relaunch (Sketch and in-browser)
Helped decide on overall design style for the NextSteps app
Took existing features and redesigned them with additional requirements and enhancements
Refined and refactored interfaces to make data-entry tasks easier and more accessible
Built an interactive interface for selecting regions in a scanned document (Angular 8)
Created a style guide to make development efforts easier
Built the starting point of the NextSteps application (Angular 8 and Typescript)
Built services to connect with back-end and third party data
Daily prototyping and design in-browser
Wrote Jasmine tests for select features
Used Git to manage code
Container Centralen (CC-Racks.com)
Designer, Angular + NodeJS Developer
At CC-Racks, I started as a NodeJS developer (Typescript and Express). From there I also jumped into design and front-end tasks, creating and building out apps in Angular 8 and Ionic. I also redesigned and prepared their public-facing site (WordPress) for release and gamified their app and "peak season" process.
March2019
August2019
Noteworthy
Built a NodeJS (Typescript and Express) API to interact with grower and retail location data
Created a visual style guide and reusable-component library for use on all new Container Centralen applications
Redesigned and developed the Container Centralen "Mobility" application (Ionic Framework, and Typescript)
Built a concept feature that uses gamification to increase rack collection data in retail locations
Designed and animated a playable loading screen game (jQuery, Sketch, CSS + SVG animation)
Designed and developed a new logistics and order management application (Angular 7/8, and Typescript)
Wrote Jasmine tests for Angular/Ionic functionality
Redesigned and developed the forthcoming CC-Racks.com public-facing website (WordPress)
UX and prototyping (Sketch and Invision) for all design projects
Worked with the Google Material framework for design consistency and quick implementation
Administered a Linux server (Apache2, PHP, MySQL, Varnish, NodeJS, and PM2)
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Interactive + Gamified Loading
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Gamified Guest Dashboard
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Grower: Dashboard
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Depot: Locations
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Retailer: Dashboard
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Retailer: Scanner
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App: Home (Concept)
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Account: Transactions
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Forecasting (Concept)
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Public Site: Home
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Public Site: Pages
Northward Compass
Owner, Creative Director, Designer, Developer, Game Developer.
<p>Since 2010, I've moved between traditional roles and freelance work. Currently I'm in a freelance phase, which is why this is at the top of the list. <strong>For my traditional roles and contract work, feel free to skip down a bit.</strong>.</p><p>In my freelance work, I have direct interaction with clients all with the goal of designing and developing awesome websites and web applications for them and their customers.</p>
December2010
December2022
Noteworthy
User Experience (UX/UI) and App Design
App development with AngularJS/Angular 8, ReactJS, JavaScript, and TypeScript
WordPress site development and security
Site deployment on AWS, Digital Ocean droplets, and Google Cloud
Amazon AWS MySQL management, S3 and Cloudfront configuration
NodeJS (Express) API Creation
Microservices with Node.js
PHP API Creation (Slim Framework and MySQL)
PDF creation with Indesign
Ad campaign configurations for Google Ads
Marketing funnel automation, including Mailchimp, Facebook, Zapier, and Constant Contact
Built a CMS that uses WordPress for content, which it delivers via JSON and AngularJS on the front-end
Design, Development, and Responsive work for gearheads.org and the Gearheads app (iOS and Android - Ionic + Cordova)
Design, Development, and responsive work for <a href="http://epuk.org">EPUK.org</a>
Full stack design and development for a site, API, and CMS for <a href="http://mrmeaner.com">MrMeaner.com</a>, including a mobile app built in Ionic
Extreme speed enhancements and configurations. (Brought sites from 6 second loads to sub 500ms load times.)
Released <a href="https://github.com/davidbrooks/responsif">Responsif</a>, a JavaScript library for rearranging the DOM based on Media Queries and device.
Designed, developed, and launched a web application, <a href="http://www.thousandwires.com">Thousand Wires</a>, using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, JavaScript, jQuery
Designed semi-photo-realistic icons for Thousand Wires
Designed interfaces and interaction with HTML5 Canvas, CSS3 and JavaScript (jQuery and <a href="http://artisanjs.com/">ArtisanJS</a>)
Used the <a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe</a> API to process recurring payments in a web app.
Worked with responsive (Adaptive) layout design with CSS3 Media Queries
Designed and developed sites in Drupal, Textpattern, Perch, and WordPress CMSes (Including the use of WordPress JSON API)
Integrated Google Maps API for plotting locations by longitude and latitude
Wrote interactive JavaScript for <a href="http://www.mun2.tv/">Mun2</a>, a child site of Telemundo
Designed interactions for an existing flash application
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Lindsay Griffin
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Kokoloka
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CHSL Cards: Landing Page
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Interactive Music Environment
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Gearheads.org: Home
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Thunderbombs Surf Camp
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Instituto de Lenguaje Espanol
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Thousand Wires: Landing Page
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Thousand Wires: Interface
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Fresh 4 U: Interface
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Fresh 4 U: Interface
We Are Few
Contract Full-Stack Developer
Developed sites and apps for Few's broad group of clients
December2016
August2017
Noteworthy
Built an app for LG using Ionic and AngularJS
Angular2, UX and application development work for Armor.com.
Updates and new features for an existing Laravel (PHP) project
Routine WordPress updates, tweaks, and security patches
Client interaction and coordination
Unfortunately there aren't any images to show for this role. That could be because the project hasn't launched yet, or because I can't show my work due to non-disclosure agreements.
Rentr.com
Contract Lead Front-End Developer
In this role, I interpreted design mocks into an interactive AngularJS application.
April2016
October2016
Noteworthy
AngularJS architecture and development
Architecture of data structures (JSON and Google App Engine)
Integration of jQuery and external libraries with Angular
Consumption of, and minor updates to a Python API
Interactive data manipulation
Minor design updates
Unfortunately there aren't any images to show for this role. That could be because the project hasn't launched yet, or because I can't show my work due to non-disclosure agreements.
Disney
UX Designer / Front-End Developer
During my time at Disney, I worked on a web app and mobile app for optimizing park efficiency based on wait-times and expectations.
April2015
April2016
Noteworthy
Interaction design and implementation for two tier 1 applications
Daily use of AngularJS, the Ionic Framework, and Cordova
Daily use of NodeJS to request and combine data from .NET and SOAP services
Created custom vector illustrations of characters (Adobe Illustrator and Sketch)
Animated custom vector SVG illustrations with CSS and JavaScript animation techniques
Created interactive, data-driven charts using AngularJS and Chartist
Created the basic styleguide for the application, integrating with Bootstrap (using LESS)
All CSS Work was built with responsive ideals in mind, using Media Queries
Unfortunately there aren't any images to show for this role. That could be because the project hasn't launched yet, or because I can't show my work due to non-disclosure agreements.
Artletic
UX Designer / Developer
Designed and developed applications and sites for Artletic and their clients.
November2012
December2015
Noteworthy
Interactive design and implementation for Artletic clients and internal projects
HTML5, CSS3 (including SASS and LESS)
Responsive design and implementation, optimization for browser and mobile devices
Built mobile apps using the Ionic framework and HTML5
<strong>JavaScript:</strong> Backbone and AngularJS, jQuery, Grunt-JS, JSPlumb, CoffeeScript debugging.
<strong>Backend:</strong> PHP (including the slim framework for API development), Ruby (Sinatra and Rails), Grails, JAVA/JSP
<strong>Generative art:</strong> ArtisanJS (Canvas) and Processing
HTML5 application planning and delivery
API design
Gamefication
Fellowship Technologies
User Experience Developer
Designed and developed interfaces for both Fellowship Technologies' internal and external applications.
August2009
December2010
Noteworthy
Designed and developed a charting library using HTML5, Canvas and JavaScript for in-browser pie, bar and line graphs.
Worked with data visualization and graphing of live data
Designed the interface for the internal web application
Integrated Google Maps API for finding nearby small groups
Wrote HTML5, CSS, JavaScript (including Prototype & jQuery), ASP .NET and Rails for both of the main product offerings
Fry Incorporated
Interface Developer
At Fry, I built sites for large-scale e-commerce brands.
November2008
August2009
Noteworthy
Provided XHTML, jQuery and CSS for clients such as Goodyear Tires, Tassimo and the redesign of Fry's corporate site.
Created HTML for email marketing
Converted design compositions from Photoshop into functional and standards based HTML and CSS.
Worked with Fry's proprietary development platform, OCP (Java)
Wrote and modified JSP templates
Integrated Microformats
Performed maintenance tasks and HTML/CSS updates on long term client sites such as <a href="http://www.express.com">Express Fashion</a>, <a href="http://www.goodyearautoservice.com/home.jsp">Goodyear Auto Service Centers</a> and <a href="http://www.tassimo.com">Tassimo</a>.
Asbury Theological Seminary
Visual Media Developer
In this role, I worked with the team to develop high-quality and cutting-edge sites and web-apps. My daily focus was often on JavaScript frameworks like React, NextJS, Vue, and Lit Element.
June2006
November2008
Noteworthy
Managed the Seminary's websites (3015 pages of content presented both internally and externally)
Created, designed and developed the Seminary's custom portal system
Assisted with the integration of a single sign-on system and authentication schemes
User interaction and interface design of Asbury's Intranet.
Developed an API to handle job listings and media management
Created an automation process for podcasting efforts and RSS feeds
Pushed for an advancement in next generation web technologies and social networks.
Pushed for the further use of web standards by converting the existing site to validating XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0
Managed a small web team toward changes and upkeep of the Seminary's website
Instruction and training of employees on the Content Management Systems and portal
Lead the change from a traditional website (based on individual files) to one driven by a Content Management System
Managed audio and video Podcasting for both of the Seminary's campuses
Implemented live video streaming
Developed an interactive interface to facilitate simultaneous delivery of video in a remote classroom setting based on Extron equipment
Recorded and edited videos for distance learning applications
Started development on the Seminary's new approach to the online classroom
Worked with the graphic designers to develop multiple editions of the main website as well as other sites
Assisted with decisions about e-mail server selection
Information architecture and user experience work
Video, Flash and motion graphic design
