About

I feel that programming is really something like story telling, or poetry. When programming, I do not feel as if I am just writing instructions for a computer, I feel I am telling stories through code. It's as if I write poems, in strict verse, which instead of being heard by human ears, allow people to do interesting things on the internet.

I love learning, improving, trying new things and refactoring old things. I like working with a team, and also being self-managed.

Python is currently my favorite all purpose programming language.

I am an free and open-source software advocate.

I am a husband and father, with 5 awesome kids.

I am a pet lover with 1 bunny, 2 cats and 5 awesome dogs.

I love coffee, tea, good wine and beer.

I am a history lover, who enjoys dabbling in philosophy, religion and politics.

"When you get the blanket thing, you can relax, because everything you could ever want or be, you already have and are."

Other Hobbies

Music

Art

Reading

Camping

Nature Walks

History

Experience

Wayland Design & Development

I am the founder and lead developer of Wayland Design & Development

Responsibilities
  • Building custom business applications for clients
  • Building elegant and functional websites for clients on a wide variety of platforms
  • Building our own original web apps and services

Mckinley

I am currently employed, for over 5 years, with Mckinley as a Full Stack Developer. Mostly back-end centric, focused on providing custom solutions and features in the form of individual web apps and also by additions to their massive proprietary company management software.

Responsibilities
  • Custom APIs and web services
  • Create and extend multiple applications used by thousands of residents and employees for various tasks.
  • Custom features built into massive in-house company management software
  • Deploy applications on a LAMP stack, server management
  • Utilize various frameworks including Flask and Rails
  • Work with various Microsoft technologies
  • Utilizing websockets
  • Work with modern Javascript tools including Vue.js and React.js

Q ltd

For almost 2 years at Q ltd I had the opportunity to build high-end, large-scale, dynamic, custom sites for several important clients, including:

Responsibilities
  • Build high quality, custom applications from scratch
  • Build user friendly, elegantly designed websites
  • Various maintenance tasks on any platform required
  • Project management
  • Utilize communication tools such as Slack and Skype, and Trello to discuss projects
  • Utilize modern front end tools such as Bootstrap, Foundation, sass, less, and jquery.
  • Used bower for package management and Grunt and Gulp for task runners
  • Deploy applications on a LAMP stack, server management
  • PSD to html site or CMS theme
  • Custom themes and plugins for Wordpress and Drupal
  • E-commerce solutions with woocommerce
  • Utilize various frameworks including Laravel, Flask, and Django

Visual Compass Web Design

For 2+ years at VC Web I had the opportunity to build dozens of sites and custom web apps for a variety of different clients, mostly for small to medium size businesses.

Responsibilities
  • Build high quality, custom applications from scratch
  • Build user friendly, elegantly designed websites
  • Various maintenance tasks on any platform required
  • Project management
  • Utilize communication tools such as Slack and Skype to discuss projects
  • Utilize modern front end tools and MVC frameworks such as AngularJS, Bootstrap, Foundation, Gumby, sass, less, coffeescript, and jquery.
  • Used bower for package management and Grunt and Gulp for task runners
  • Used agile tools like JIRA kanaban boards, Pivitol Tracker, and Trello
  • Deploy applications on a traditional LAMP stack, as well as cloud services such as Rackspace, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Fortrabbit, App Fog, and Pagoda Box
  • DevOpps with Docker and Vagrant
  • PSD to html site or CMS theme
  • Custom themes and plugins for various CMS Platforms including Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine
  • E-commerce solutions including drupal commerce, woocart, uber cart, zen cart, magento and cart throb
  • Utilize various frameworks including Padrino, Sinatra, Code Ignigter, Laravel, Flask, Cakephp, and Django

Frugal Development

For 2+ years I operated Frugal Development as a freelance company. I also collaborated with other freelancers during this time and subcontracted with other development companies.

Responsibilities
  • Build high quality, custom applications from scratch
  • Build user friendly, elegantly designed websites
  • Various maintenance tasks on any platform required
  • Project management
  • Utilize communication tools such as Skype to discuss projects
  • LAMP stack management
  • PSD to html site or CMS theme
  • Custom themes and plugins for various CMS Platforms including Wordpress, Joomla, and Expression Engine
  • E-commerce solutions including woocart, zen cart, magento and cart throb
  • Utilize various frameworks including Padrino, Sinatra, Code Ignigter, Laravel, Flask, Cakephp, Django and Rails

Compel

For over a year, I was a front end developer for Compel, a company based in Ann Arbor MI which operates Compel Cart, an online ordering system. I was responsible for integrating the online ordering software into clients websites. I also installed a python program to interact with the online ordering system on the machines that were on location, via remote access

Responsibilities
  • Build user friendly, elegantly designed websites
  • Various maintenance tasks on any platform required
  • Project management
  • LAMP stack management
  • PSD to html site or CMS theme

Currently Employed

Wayland Design & Development

Owner and Developer

Mckinley

Full Stack Developer

Previous Employers

Q ltd

Web Developer

Visual Compass Web Design

Lead Web Developer

Frugal Development

Owner / Web Developer

Compel Cart

Front End Developer

Skills

Languages

PYTHON

RUBY

PHP

C

Crystal

SQL

RUST

HTML

CSS

JAVASCRIPT

Javascript Frameworks

Express.js

Socket.io

React.js

Redux.js

Angluar.js

Vue.js

Databases

MYSQL

POSTGRESQL

MONGODB

SQL SERVER

REDIS

Frameworks

FLASK

DJANGO

SINATRA

PADRINO

RAILS

LARAVEL

CODEIGNITER

CAKEPHP

CMS Platforms

WORDPRESS

DRUPAL

CONCRETE 5

MODX

EXPRESSION ENGINE

eCommerce Platforms

MAGENTO

ZENCART

WOOCOMMERCE

DRUPAL COMMERCE

UBBERCART

RUBY

PHP

PYTHON

HTML

CSS

JAVASCRIPT

C

Contact

Send me an email at waylandwebdev@gmail.com