Summary: I joined Color-Red in hopes of combining my passion for music with my passion for coding. During the time I've spent at Color-Red, I've helped them clean up and automate a lot of their data collection processes within Airtable, creating less room for manual data manipulation and potential human error. After these processes are cleaned up to the best point possible, we will build an application that will make all these processes, and much more, function and perform smoothly with an interface that is fast and efficient. This project is being mapped and planned out at the moment, and when it's ready I will dig in!

Summary: As a contracted member of the Kin and Carta team of 8 developers, 4 designers, 4 QA professionals and 3 team leads developing an app for a donor advised funds non-profit called The Signatry, I was thrown into a huge lift of a project as far as work demanded and tech used. I went in with barely any React experience, and absolutely zero experience with TypeScript, GraphQL, SQL, TypeORM, Apollo and Node.js. Six months later I walked out feeling confident with the experience I gained using each of these technologies as well as the principles of programming. I was thrown into the fire as they say, and it was the best possible learning experience working with and learning from extremely skilled, patient and kind professionals at every level. I'm forever grateful for such an incredible learning opportunity.

Summary: After taking over as project lead for Pie Insurance, I had inherited a mess of a management situation with an old, improperly managed WordPress site. I turned it around, and ended up delivering a final product that is easier to manage from both a developer's and content managers perspective. I have also learned how to communicate directly, properly and efficiently with the client and fulfill the product need.

Summary: When I got hired on at Spire I quickly learned what it means to be a part of a big efficient team with lots of moving parts. Learning to use popular management methods like Jira, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD Pipelines, I found it fun to be an integral part of a professional process. My responsibilities thus far have been acting as the lead developer in managing and maintaining the various workings of a major Wordpress site belonging to Pie Insurance, as well as developing a Wordpress site using Sage 9 and Laravel for PCI In Focus for their early 2020 Conference.

Summary: After the Senior Dev decided to leave the firm, I was promoted to Lead Dev for the company and proceeded to hold down the fort myself. I was solely responsible for all management of all the websites, and making all the Dev related decisions moving forward. My responsibilities included, but were not limited to actively maintaining over 14 sites and fixing any issues/breakage whatsoever with these sites, overseeing the creation of a site from initial coding to taking it live, and anything else that might pop up on a daily basis. I have honed in skills like moving old battered sites from host to host manually, debugging malware and solving programming compatibility issues with plugins.

Summary: Starting my coding career here has been nothing short of huge blessing for me. Working with the small team of badass designers and an even more badass developers to build custom themes and sweet sites was a huge leg for a up for a newbie like me, at the time. I quickly became familiar with WP file structure, custom post types, Sage 8/9 frameworks, php, sass, cli tools, node package manager, git, responsive development, bootstrap, webpack, ftp, mimicing design from sketch, illustrator and photoshop, and many other incredibly valuable skills in the coding workplace.