As an editor with more than a decade of experience, I worked with clients to bring their ideas to life on the page — from fantasy novels to professional portfolios and academic monographs, across fields as diverse as Statistics and South Asian Studies. Now, I aim to bring people's ideas to life on the web.
At General Assembly (GA) Chicago, the Web Development Immersive program tremendously accelerated my study of programming, in particular JavaScript and Ruby, as I built browser games, servers, and web apps, in solo and collaborative projects. Examples of this work can be found below.
Currently, I am honored to be serving as a Teaching Assistant for the new Software Engineering Immersive cohort at GA. Although this represents a new course for my career, my passion for helping people realize their goals has remained constant. Reach out — and let's make your next project happen.
React frontend, Ruby / Sinatra backend, SQL database. Create issues that describe a problem, invite other users to work with you, and choose which issues you want to share with your collaborators. Users can post notes offering tips and guidance to issues they own or that have been shared with them. Users have full CRUD on issues that they created.
Collaborative project with Peter Murray and Dakotah Ducharme. React frontend, Ruby / Sinatra backend, SQL database. The backend serves as an API for superrad, but it is also a fullstack app, Image Tagger, that we used to crowdsource 1.) seeding data for an image database, and 2.) adding one-word "tags" to the images. We used the data gathered thereby to create superrad, a relational image game that generates a layout of four images. Clicking an image generates a new layout based on images with related tags — with some randomness thrown in, to keep things interesting. Users who create an account can keep track of their current "image journey," or reset their path to start a new adventure.
Old school "two-players, one-terminal" browser game built in JavaScript (plus the Velocity.js animation library). After choosing three doodles as their champions from a pool of 10, the players square off in the arena, attempting to land blows and block their opponent's attacks based on careful timing. The doodles were lovingly hand-drawn with lo-fi, MSPaint-like freeware, and each doodle has a unique special ability to aid them in combat.
React frontend, Express backend, MongoDB / Mongoose data storage. Powered by the excellent Magic: The Gathering API. All users can search and view cards. Users who create an account can add to their deck any cards found through the search functionality. Users have full CRUD on decks they create.
Collaborative project with Sam Brown. EJS templates with Express server, MongoDB / Mongoose data storage. Powered by the ListenNotes API. All users can search and view podcasts / episodes. Users who create an account have full CRUD on playlists they create and can add or remove podcast episodes from their playlists.
Born / raised in Cincinnati, living in Chicago for > 10 years. Graduate of the General Assembly Web Development (WDI) / Software Engineering (SEI) bootcamp. Currently, Teaching Assistant for the SEI cohort, General Assembly Chicago.
