10up

Began working fully remote with 10up as a Front-End Engineer. Working with a fully remote team, developing mostly WordPress sites for a wide array of clients. 10up offers creative and engineering services to businesses looking for a creative agency, or integrates with existing teams to help with specialized projects and initiatives. I'm looking forward to my future with 10up and all the opportunity it provides.

catnipapawthecary.com

I built a site for my friend Mikey, who started a new business. This site is going to be primarily managed by him and he's very familiar with WordPress. So for this build I decided to use the WordPress Gutenberg editor for the first time to build out a number of custom blocks. This site includes the ability to create the site as a single page, or multiple pages. Includes a blog, storefront, photo galleries, splash screen, and optional navigation. The site design work was a collaboration with myself, my wife Emily and our friend Colleen

treykane.com

I rebuilt my own personal website as a vue.js app. Everything on the site is hand coded and using vue.js for templates. I wanted to build a beautiful and simple portal for all of my projects on the web. The scope and frequency of my projects has increased and I wanted a site that could bring all of those things together. I also had a desire to start long form writing again, so I needed a blog that I could do that easily. I choose to integrate the WordPress Rest API, using it headless to get post data, leaving the rest of my site completely in Vue.js

maythe4thbewith.us

Built a website for my friends Colleen and Andrew. They are getting married on May 4th 2019. The site is build on vue.js as a client side application. The site has many images and a good amount of photos, so where possible I used the best possible methods to optimize loading the appropriate assets for the appropriate devices, though I think I could have utilized caching better. I enjoyed working on the site and it was my first adventure in a full top to bottom Vue.js build.

Red Ventures - Bankrate

Continuing my web development career with Red Ventures. I moved to the Bankrate business to work as a Software Engineer. With this move I find myself back in Michigan, this time living in Detroit. I spent a good portion of my time working with Vue.js applications. The tech stack also relied on React, Laravel, WordPress, and GraphQL. This was a great opportunity to strengthen my skills and give me deeper knowledge and experience in software architecture and development life cycles.

Attack of Opportunity

Started the independent broadcaster Attack of Opportunity. A media network dedicated to talking and broadcasting Tabletop and video games of all types. We started with one Show 'Attack of Opportunity D&D' which is a Dungeons and Dragons actual play show we try and started to stream every Sunday and we finished the year with three weekly shows adding 'The Solution' and 'The Solution: After Dark' where we work through Hunt A Killer's monthly Mystery Boxes.

Red Ventures

Working at Red Ventures as a Front End Developer in Charlotte, North Carolina. In my role with Red Ventures, I was working on partner websites building sites with HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript using a proprietary PHP templating system. These sites were direct marketing, and storefront websites.

hmbtx.com

I worked with Heritage Anderson on the Hancock McGill & Bleau Law site. The website was in need of a basic update and refresh, as it had not been re-visited in some time, and the company had undergone recent changes. We worked to make the site visually appealing while providing necessary information for clients and future customers of HMB Law. This was a quick, fun project and overall it went very well.

lakeshorefittings.com

I worked with Heritage Anderson on the Lakeshore Fittings site. Our goals were to update the Lakeshore Fittings web properties, and bring them to a more current standard. We had several challenges here, the first was to provide compelling visuals, and simple interactions. The next was to provide a store for clients to place their orders, we used Woo Commerce to achieve this, and had great success using it to create two storefronts. The last challenge was to include a series of conversion calculators, I achieved this by using the JS Quantities library to handle the math of complex unit conversions. My iterations of the conversion calculators are available on CodePen here.

boardwalksouthhaven.com

I worked with Heritage Anderson on the Boardwalk South Haven site. This was a fairly straight forward front end development. We did not have any data challenges to overcome. But we did decide to use off screen navigation for both the Desktop and Mobile versions of the site. We also wanted to present the great ariel footage of the property at the top of the page, but we also wanted to have text information available to the user, which spawned the idea for our overlay interactions.

watchmuskegon.com

I worked with Revel Marketing to develop the site for the Muskegon Image Group's Watch Muskegon campaign. I worked with their designers and account managers to execute the one page site. The Desktop version had already been designed, but I was tasked with adapting and determining the responsive design as the viewport width became smaller. The site was built using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This was chosen, as there will not be frequent updates to the site, and there was a desire to keep the complexity of the site low.

grnow.com

I worked with Heritage Anderson and GR Now to rebuild the GRNow.com website. The website is a large directory of businesses, events, and information about whats happening in Grand Rapids Michigan. The project was a large undertaking and included an extensive data migration from Mamba/Joomla 1.0 to WordPress 3.8. I greatly enjoyed working with everyone involved in this project and I am satisfied with the final results.

Freelance Web Developer

I began work as a freelance contractor working mostly as a Front End Developer. However clients also leverage my skills for server management, data manipulation, and backend development. I am working primarily with WordPress but learn other frameworks and CMS as needed.

Revel Marketing

I began working at Revel Marketing as the Digital Project Manager. This role was responsible for overseeing the web development team, managing web development projects, being the web development point of contact, and contributing to discovery and design meetings as the voice for the web development team. I was also the support point of contact for customers, and helped to manage a large number of client webservers.

longerdays.com

I began working at LongerDays.com as a Team Lead and Web Developer. In this role I was responsible for managing and performing tasks for clients who were primarily focused on web development. As our team grew during my time with LongerDays.com I became responsible for hiring decisions, managing the web development team, and guiding the direction of web development at LongerDays.com. I was also responsible for overseeing the LongerDays.com web properties, which included external sites, project management software, and employee portals.

redbookjars.com

I worked with Doug Leybourne for the second time building him a new version of his site for The Red Book of Fruit Jars. The first site we built was based on table layouts. When this site was built responsive design was still in its early stages of evolution. But even given that this site over time has proven to serve Doug very well, driving the sales of his book.

Going Deeper...

I have a very wide array of work experience and skills having worked for several years at a movie theater as a supervisor, security supervisor in a hospital emergency room, convenient store clerk, selling electronics, professional stage hand, videographer, running a dye casting machine, professional chef, call center operator, and working as a visiting home health aide and in a Hospice residence specializing in end of life care for more than six years.

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Implementing Highlight.js

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