Career Profile

JavaScript developer with a strong background in building API driven single page applications. Historically focused on spatial mapping applications with heavy user interaction. I enjoy using Node.js a little bit of Rails and many front end frameworks.

Experiences

Senior Developer

2013 - Present
Resource Data, Inc, Anchorage

Developed web & web-mapping applications for a variety of clients across multiple industries. Designed robust Single Page Applications using various JavaScript frameworks & libraries including: Angular,Backbone, Ampersand, React, Express, Dojo & jQuery.

GIS Consultant

2013
Esri Canada, Calgary

Guide GIS solution implementation projects through planning and delivery. Cultivate relationships with stakeholders at government, resource industry, and private sector clients. Analyze business needs and collaboratively design/whiteboard client GIS-based solutions, develop prototypes, and lead product demonstrations. Provide pre-sales engagement support and advisory services, conducting technical studies, preparing recommendation reports, and assisting with formal RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses. Facilitate solution documentation and training for seamless go live launch.

Senior GIS Developer & Senior GIS Analyst

2011 - 2012
R&M Consultants, Anchorage

Led all aspects of ArcGIS database and ArcGIS Server administration. Directed analysis and development of solutions across 3 ArcGIS instances running on ArcGIS Server version 10.1. Collaborated with IT teams for selection and integration of servers and infrastructure solutions. Coordinated application enhancements and server instance implementations. Crafted and executed strategies to optimize GIS database performance through maintenance and performance tuning. Facilitated data quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC). Analyzed functional business requirements and validated alignment of technical system designs for deliverable fulfillment.

Projects

Below you will find links to a few projects that I have worked on or commit to. This includes everything from development to helping with documentation.

Healthy Futures - Empowering Alaska’s Youth to Build the Habit of Daily Physical Activity. I assisted in developing the backend Ruby on Rails application that manages all of the challenges and activity tracking.
Muni Traffic Map - Esri based web mapping application for viewing and querying incident statistics. This application was heavily constrained by legacy technology and the map was part of a larger effort to phase in modern web technology.
Nodosaurus - A simple boilerplate example of Hapi.JS
Nodosaurus Aurelia Client - A front end for the Nodosaurus server written in Aurelia. This was an excuse to test drive another front-end framework.
Feathers JS Documentation - A sample of tutorial/documentation for Open Source software.
Trails JS Waterline Support - Added basic support for Waterline ORM callbacks in Trails.js

Skills & Proficiency

Javascript

Welding

Angular

Sarcasm

Ruby on Rails

Node

Puppy training

Raising children