Manzama provides various market intelligence services aimed primarily at law firms. Though I wear a lot of hats, my main focus is on bringing our frontend development stack (previously composed of technologies like YUI and jQuery) up to modern day standards with React, Redux, and GraphQL. I built the frontend experience of our latest product, Manzama Insights, from the ground up. As part of our move to GraphQL, I also built my own server-side implementation of GraphQL.

Mercenary Technologies was a full-service technical consultancy serving Pacific Northwest customers, from startups to mid-market. My role in the company was that of 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 frontend web development with React 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. The projects I worked on included: two iOS apps, one of which was in the App Store (BUCKiTDREAM, now defunct); an interactive data visualization tool for The Freshwater Trust; a web-based calendar builder powered by React and Node.js; and a Magento e-commerce site (Superfeet).

I was laid off for 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 prospective donors. 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 closed, I took on the work as an independent contractor, then was hired as an employee of the company, and then briefly became the CTO before the company was acquired and dissolved.

LaunchSide was a software development agency that partnered with other companies to develop the software side of their businesses. 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 across many industries to build full products quickly. LaunchSide went out of business, and I inherited three of its clients as an independent contractor.

I began my professional career by building web apps and websites for a range of clients. Notable projects include a fundraising website for the then mayor of Tualatin, Lou Ogden, and a web-based calculator used by an electrical engineering company (Cerus Industrial) to calculate pressure requirements for their pumps. I also took on some small web design projects during this time.

The DonorDynamics platform consisted of a user-facing Django app backed by an offline predictive process written in Python. The backend process started with a customer-supplied spreadsheet containing information on their donors and prospects, which we then augmented with our own data sources, including third-party APIs and scraped public data. The augmented data set was run through a series of predictive algorithms based on statistical regression, donor heuristics, and machine learning, which resulted in a collection of estimates of the likelihood and capacity of a donation from any potential donor. This data was then uploaded to our web app and displayed to customers through an interactive chart and a downloadable spreadsheet. Before the company was dissolved, I was in the process of writing a richer and more interactive version of the frontend in React.

When I was at LaunchSide, I built a web app called ReadiTrack to track AEDs and certifications in accordance with local health and safety laws, and notify the relevant parties when AEDs or their accessories are expiring or need maintenance. After LaunchSide closed, I took over the project as an independent contractor. ReadiTrack was sold to another company in November 2015 and renamed ClassbyteAED, and I still provide maintenance services for the software on occasion.

I developed a web app that scraped Portland State University's course database and presented it in an accessible, easy-to-use search engine. The main feature of the app was the ability to filter down 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.