Experience

2019 to present: Web development consulting and contracting, Speculative writing, musician, In home care giving,.

2008 through 2019 Programmer/Analyst, County of Humboldt, Department of Health and Human Services. Information Services Eureka CA.

2005 through 2007: Information technology consultant/contractor.

2006 spring: Lecturer, Humboldt State University, Computing Science Dept. Arcata CA.

2003 through 2005: Teaching Assistant, Humboldt State University, Computing Science Dept. Arcata CA.

Skills

JavaScript

• I've worked with it for over 8 years.

• I've used it in the front-end with JQuery and now React,

• in the back-end for APIs with Node, Express.

PHP

• I adopted PHP about the same time PHP adopted object oriented programming.

• I found it to be the most reliable and fastest to production web development language around.

• For server side prototyping and web development it is hard to beat.

C# .NET

I have worked with .NET since version 2,

• converting legacy apps,

• converting data systems,

• building web APIs with ASP.NET

• building new specialized user experiences.

Technical writing

• For all my projects, I have and will continue to write extensive documentation

• both to have a positive user experience

• and make support as easy as possible

Database development

• While at HSU I worked with Oracle for three years.

• As a .NET developer I have worked with MS SQLServer for eleven years. doing database construction, conversion, integration and ETL.

• As a PHP programmer I have worked with Mysql for fifteen years building user experiences as well as developing for WordPress installs.

SharePoint and MS Office 365

While at County of Humboldt, Department of Health and Human Services., I coordinated research on a project to migrate from in house Office and SharePoint to MS Office 365 online. I worked with:

• SharePoint integration and development,

• migrating data records and files,

• researching and configuring government level security.

Languages

English 🇺🇸

Native speaker

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems

2006 Graduated HSU - Eureka Ca. (now Cal Poly Humboldt) Music minor

College of the Redwoods, Fall 2000 to Spring 2002, Transfer to HSU, Music, writing and Computer Information Systems Major