Welcome to my web dev portfolio! Below you'll be able to learn a little about me and my passion for coding and take a look at a few of my projects. Hope you enjoy!
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Defusal is a memory and focus game inspired by old classics such as Operation, Perfection, and Simon Says. You are tasked with disarming a bomb before the time runs out. To do this you must correctly repeat 15 sequences of a disarm code. Make a mistake and you have to restart on a new sequence. Make three mistakes and… boom! This game was built using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, utilizing DOM manipulation. (Play with your sound on for the best experience!)
Dungeon Forge is a D&D character creator CRUD app designed to help inspire ideas and then create and store them. Sometimes the hardest step in the creative process is figuring out where to begin. Fortunately Dungeon Forge allows you to look at a gallery of every user’s created characters. Hopefully here you will find the inpiration you need to dive into the creation process. This project focuses primarily on the back-end, utilizing NodeJs, ExpressJs, and MongoDB.
baseNote is a community resource for posting and tracking live local music. Instead of having to search individual websites to figure out where live music is being played, you can find everything you're looking for in one place; baseNote. An artist or a venue can create an account, then post a show which will appear on the main page of the app. All a user has to do is open the app and they are greeted with a list of every show taking place including the date, time, location, and artist that's playing. This "mobile-first" web app was built utilizing the MERN stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS.
I am a software engineer from Asheville, North Carolina where I've been living for the past 6 years. I spend my free time hiking the endless breathtaking mountain trails in the surrounding area, reading in the local coffee shops, and writing and performing music with my bandmates.
My work life up until this past year was spent in customer service and team management. After 10 plus years of sharpening my communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, I was ready for new challenges in a more stimulating and rewarding environment. I was also looking for a work lifestyle that would better suit and support my creative interests. Having many connections in tech I felt a strong pull to enter the industry myself. So, never having been one to do things halfway, I signed up for a full-time, full immersion, web development coding bootcamp at Ironhack... I fell in love.
Whereas I thought I was pursuing a means to support my artistic endeavors, what I discovered, to my surprise and delight, was a whole new passion. Coding allows me to access both the technical engineering and the creative problem solving sides of my brain in a way that nothing else ever has. Software engineering, web development, and the tech industry as a whole, provide a never ending flow of new challenges to overcome and new opportunities to learn and grow every day. I have without doubt found my happy place.
The featured projects are just some of the results of my time spent in that happy place. Each one was built entirely from scratch and completed in about 4-5 days. If you have any comments or questions about the projects or my work availability or just want to say hello please feel free to do so in the contact form you’ll find at the bottom of the page. I’d love to hear from you and will get back to you as soon as I see the message!
