My goal is to make a difference by building usable, highly performant web experiences with clean, modern code, in a progressive and positive organization. Also interested in a role that combines my strengths: teaching and advanced web development skills.
Level Bot Technology is a startup delivering a mobile app for the construction industry. I was senior front end dev on the admin web app, establishing the repo and its directory structure, incorporating React, TypeScript, Jest.
Higher Ground Education of Lake Forest, CA acquired FreshGrade Education in early 2021. The team got involved in developing exciting new features for Higher Ground’s line of education apps, built with Ember.js on the front end and Django Rest Framework back end. New features began to be built with a React/Redux front end.
Front-end development for an educational technology platform built with React/redux and TypeScript. My first task was establishing the visual style for the Gradebook; recently I’ve been the primary front-end dev responsible for the mobile app, which is a dual platform app built with our front-end codebase wrapped with Apache Cordova, available in app stores now.
Front-end development for a full-featured banking system that provides a white-labelled SaaS for hundreds of credit unions across Canada. Currently working on the new version of their online banking platform, based on Backbase. Previously, our team was responsible for creating the first authenticated voice banking skill for Amazon Echo, enabling Alexa to act as a “virtual teller” to help customers pay bills, get account balances, and transfer funds.
Front end developer on a workplace mental health startup that delivers cognitive behavioural therapy-based online tools to help workers deal with stress, anxiety and depression (starlingminds.com). Used Backbone.js as the front end framework, and utilized D3.js for data visualizations.
Primary technical instructor in the Interactive Design program (canceled 2014), as well as web development instructor for the IDEA (Illustration & Design, Elements & Applications) program. Course topics included HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, WordPress, Photoshop
As a web developer, I excel at the intersection of user experience and quality code, building resilient front end experiences for desktop and mobile.
As an instructor, I excel at collaborating with people to help them learn complex technical topics in approachable and memorable ways.
At Level Bot Technology, I established the administration web app from the ground up, and built lots of features with the help of an intermediate dev under my supervision. The web app SPA was built with React (using TypeScript, with React Context for state management) and the awesome power of Tailwindcss.
At FreshGrade, as well as regular work on the educational technology web product (a SPA developed in TypeScript using React/redux with a C#/mongodb back end), I’ve acted as the main front-end dev responsible for the iOS & Android mobile app, porting our web app to a Cordova mobile app, available in app stores now.
At Central 1 Credit Union, I was involved as a front end developer on a number of projects.
Were you ever charmed by those cool version names for Ubuntu Linux? You know: breezy badger, fancy fox…just for fun, I made a web app that lets you sign up for an account, create any number of projects, and manage version names for those projects.
Github: https://github.com/stylecramper/version-namer-app
Demo on heroku: https://version-namer-app.herokuapp.com/
You know how it is: you have kids, and you want them to have fun (and maybe be a bit impressed with you). When my girls got heavily into Pig Latin, I decided to whip together an online tool for translating English into Pig Latin. Demo here: http://backattheranch.ca/piglatin/