Brief Intro

I am a budding programmer eager to hone my skills. I live in Northern Virginia, a short ways from Washington D.C. I bring a degree of trusted professionalism to the team having held various clearances with the U.S. Govt.

About Me

In my former career I supported several tech and programming oriented teams administratively. My last programming team in particular was highly skilled and placed a high premium on teamwork. Now that I'm looking to switch careers, I'm excited to gain a more professional, solid foundation in coding practical applications to make peoples' lives easier as well as live up to the great team that inspired me.

Outside of work, a couple interests are:

  1. I enjoy walking along the local park trails. Having spent most of my career behind an office desk, it's good to get out, get some exercise and clear your head from time to time.
  2. I dabble a little bit with cooking, when I have time to spare. Mostly light breakfast things, but it's fun to try an unfamiliar dessert once in awhile to mix things up.

List of services I can provide:

  1. HTML
  2. CSS
  3. Javascript
  4. jQuery
  5. React
  6. Node
  7. Express
  8. PostgreSQL
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Project Section

Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement

MAPLE (the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement) makes it easy for residents to submit their testimony to the MA legislature and read the testimony of others. Our goals are to shine a light on the statehouse by 1) providing a public archive of legislative testimony; 2) standardizing and demystifying the testimony process, so that more people can make their voices heard; 3) creating a space for constituents and legislators to maintain prolonged focus on key issues, and to learn more efficiently about the laws that will shape our lives.

( HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Python / Flask )

Capitol Flag Tracker

This app allows US Congressional staffers to more easily track the progress of their constituents flag orders. Previously, staffers would have to manually reach out to agencies to get the status of their orders. Now, agencies can use QR codes to update the order progress with the app saving staffers time and hassle.

( HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Python / Flask )

App Demo Screenshot
Live App
GitHub Frontend Repo
GitHub Backend Repo

US National Parks Weather Forecaster

This app allows users to search a state for national parks. They can then choose a park to get a weather forecast for. Additionally, if there are weather reports in that area, those will be displayed as well.

( HTML / CSS / JavaScript / jQuery )

APIs: National Parks Service, National Weather Service

App Demo Screenshot
Live App
GitHub Repo

What's For Dinner

App allows users to plan menus either by selecting and arranging dishes for their menu, or by using a random function to generate ideas to plan a menu around. Meant to be a basic framework to allow for expansions to potentially include calorie counting, dietary filters and linked ingrediants to start a shopping list with.

( HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Node / Express / PostgreSQL )

App Demo Screenshot
Live App
GitHub Repo

Park Trail Test

Simple website layout to test various optimization tools

  • Optimized design for 7 screen sizes (desktop and mobile) using Responsively app, flexbox, and media queries
  • Refactored for best practices by validating HTML and CSS using W3C Markup Validation Service
  • Reduced Cumulative Layout Shift from .402 to 0 by running web performance tests to identify opportunities to speed up the application

( HTML / CSS / Responsively / Lighthouse)

App Demo Screenshot
Live App
GitHub Repo

Librarian

App allows a librarian to manage a collection of books and track which patron they are checked out to. Future expansions include tracking dates, late fees and a patron interface.

( HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React / Node / Express / PostgreSQL )