I am a front-end developer completing the Front-End Development Bootcamp at Grand Circus – Detroit.
Prior to software development, I spent 7+ years in digital content marketing in both B2B and B2C settings where I had the opportunity to collaborate directly with development teams and cultivate an understanding of their complete workflow including wireframing, UX, and testing.
It was during this time that I realized the crucial importance of intuitive, accessible, and secure digital experiences to supporting user journeys, especially in an era where most individuals have transcended the real world into cyberspace and have come to rely on technology for higher reasons including information, communication, and even personal well-being. It is this infinite potential to improve the lives of others that drew me to software development.
At Grand Circus, I received intensive, hands-on training from a front-end perspective learning React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS while also being taught to work with full-stack technologies like Express and REST APIs. Outside of that, I am driven by a borderline Faustian obsession with expanding my coding knowledge and experience; most notably taking additional courses in Python and volunteering my skills on a project developing an application to improve the vetting process animal adoption or purchase applicants for veterinarians, breeders, and rescue organizations.
Beyond coding, I am an unrelenting nerd for fantasy/science-fiction RPGs, animals, criminology, psychology, history, outer space, and cybernetics. You can also find me delivering witty commentary on trash reality shows with my amazing wife, and obsessing over my three adorable rescue fur babies.
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