About Me

I grew up in a town called Clio, near Flint, Michigan. I have always enjoyed math, science and computers. I was first introduced to programming in high school, when I took a class learning BASIC. I loved it, but never knew how to get into the industry. I ended up working at General Motors and thought I would spend my life there, like my father and grandfather. I heard about Galvanize through a former student of the program, and I knew I had to enroll. So I saved up and moved myself, my wife and our two pets across the country to start a better life.

My Projects

Here are a few of my more prominent projects.

Holy Grail Tower Defense

Built by implementing:
  • JavaScript
    • jQuery
  • HTML5
    • Multi-layered canvases
  • CSS3

Each tower (when placed) gets placed into an array with the coords of its position. This array is then iterated over and compared to each individual creep's current location, to find the Euclidean distance between them. If the distance is less than the type of tower's range than the creep takes damage determined by the type of tower doing the damage.

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Eat-Rite

Built by implementing:
  • HTML
    • Nunjucks
  • JavaScript
    • Node.js
    • jQuery
    • Knex.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • CSS3
  • HTML5

This is a full stack clone of yelp.com! All data is produced through Faker. Allows non-logged-in users to view nearby restaurants. Allows logged-in users to also leave reviews on restaurants, and edit only their reviews. Allows admin to also add/edit/delete restaurants, add/edit/delete employees.

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Readit

Built by implementing:
  • JavaScript
    • AngularJS
  • HTML5
  • CSS3

This is a clone of the popular website reddit! An application that allows users to post a short message anonymously and to up or down vote posts. Users can also leave comments on posts.

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Music Match

Built by implementing:
  • Electron
    • Chromium
    • Node.js
  • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • Node.js
    • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTML5
  • CSS3

This is a desktop application created using Electron. Music Match is a game where users start with signing-in/signing-up for an account. After account details have been authenticated, users are given a choice of different genres. After a genre is chosen, the game progresses through four rounds of 15 second each. In any given round a song is played and the user must guess what song it is from a multiple choice. The faster the answer, the more points awarded. Working on an online version using angular currently.

Visit the Github Repo for the Front-end Visit the Github Repo for the Back-end