About me
Looking for new challenges and experiences after a nine year career in the oil and gas industry, I enrolled at Turing School of Software & Design to study front-end software engineering. My experience designing and building web applications has far exceeded my expectations and provided the growth I was seeking.
I'm passionate about problem solving and creating applications with a strong emphasis on aesthetics and user experience, as well as building culture and connecting with others. I excel at working in a collaborative, deadline driven environment that requires a high level of coordination and attention to detail, and I look forward to using my skills in both software engineering and business to meaningfully contribute to an organization.
Preferred locations
- Denver, CO
Previous industries
Skills
Currently learning
Projects
Cocktail Evening
Cocktail Evening
Tools Used
Cocktail Evening is a React application that helps users plan parties by searching and choosing which cocktails they'll want to serve. Designed for a user that appreciates a streamlined UI/UX and making cocktails, potential users can search for cocktails either by their name or by the ingredients in them (i.e., a "vesper", or cocktails that have "gin" or "bitters"). Clicking on an individual cocktail in the search results will show more detailed info and can then add it to the offering for their event. Users can also navigate to their event page to see their offering, with the ability to remove cocktails from this as well.
This app was created as a solo student project for the Turing School of Software and Design and written in a one-week sprint, and uses the CocktailDB API and uses Cypress testing to ensure bug free functionality.
Vinyl Viewer
Vinyl Viewer
Tools Used
Vinyl Viewer is a TypeScript/React application designed to emulate the record-collecting experience. A user can search for an artist, browse an artist's albums, and view information on each album. Users can then select an album to see more details and choose to save it to their virtual "collection." From the user's collection view, albums can be viewed, filtered by artist or album name, or removed from the collection. The project also includes a Cypress acceptance test suite.
For this project, our fully-remote team of four was tasked with self-teaching and using TypeScript to collaborate on a React application in one week. After coming up with a concept and finding Last.fm's Music Discovery API, we designed the component architecture and UI wireframe by implementing user stories. One of the main experiences we focused on was virtually recreating the feeling of flipping through records at a record store.
