Manzama provides various market intelligence services, primarily geared at law firms. Though I wear a lot of hats, I am primarily focused on bringing our frontend development stack (previously composed mostly of YUI and jQuery) up to modern day standards with React and Redux. I built the frontend experience of our latest product, Manzama Insights, from the ground up, and am currently in the process of introducing GraphQL to our backend.

Mercenary Technologies was a full-service technical consultancy serving pacific northwest customers, from startups to mid-market. My role in the company was as a generalist software engineer on a range of products and services, including a trip planner for businesses (Tripgrid, Rails/Vue.js), a Django/AngularJS storefront (Azure Standard), and a warehouse automation project with Python.

PNDLM is a digital agency that offers a wide range of services to clients, from software development and design to business consulting and SEO. I lead a team to develop apps and services on a range of tech stacks. I spent most of my time doing full-stack development for iOS apps in Swift, with PHP and Python on the backend, but I also did front-end web development with React.js and Redux. My role in the company went from being a one-man team working on an iOS app to eventually leading and mentoring a team of 3 junior developers. Among the projects I worked on are: two iOS apps, one of which is currently in the App Store (BUCKiTDREAM); an interactive data visualization tool for The Freshwater Trust; a web-based calendar builder powered by React.js and Node.js; and a Magento-based e-commerce site (Superfeet).

I was laid off due to financial reasons.

Originally a client of LaunchSide, DonorDynamics offered predictive and analytics services for non-profit organizations. I built a software platform that predicted the likelihood and capacity of donations from their prospects. The biggest and most important part of the software was the prediction algorithm, which combined machine learning with donor heuristics to produce a set of actionable reports for clients. At LaunchSide, I was in charge of development from day one, and built almost all of the software myself. After LaunchSide, I took on the work as an independent contractor; then later became an employee of the company; and eventually became the CTO for a brief period.

The company was acquired by DonorSearch and dissolved.

Another former LaunchSide client, Readiness Systems is a company that provides AED programs and services to other businesses. I built a web app called ReadiTrack to track AEDs and certifications in accordance with local health and safety laws. Readiness Systems started as a client of LaunchSide, but I later came to work on it as an independent contractor. ReadiTrack was sold to another company in November 2015, and I provided maintenance services for the software (now ClassByteAED) until 2019.

LaunchSide was a software development agency that partnered with other companies to develop the software side of their business. I worked with a small team to build data-driven web applications for clients and company partners. We used a wide variety of tech stacks and worked with clients in a lot of industries to build full products quickly. We also spent any free time working on original products to try to build profitable side businesses. LaunchSide went out of business, and I inherited three of its clients as an independent contractor.

I began my professional career by building one-off web apps and websites for a range of clients. Notable projects include a fundraising website for the mayor of Tualatin and a web-based calculator used by an electrical engineering company to calculate pressure requirements for their pumps. I also did web design work for a handful of clients during this time.

I developed a web app that scraped Portland State University's course database and presented it in a beautiful, easy-to-use search engine. The main feature of the app was the ability to filter down your results based on subject, days of the week, and time ranges. The eventual goal was to allow students to sign in via their PSU account and be able to directly register for classes using the tool. The backend was written entirely using asynchronous IO with the Twisted library. It was originally written using MongoDB on the backend and Knockout.js on the frontend, but I later rewrote it to use PostgreSQL and AngularJS.

Unfortunately, leaving school has made it difficult to continue working on the project, so it remains unfinished.