This project was a collaborative effort of 5 Lambda students. Using GitHub to merge our code, the project is built using React, Redux and Axios on the front end while the back end uses Node.js, Express, Knex.js and PostgreSQL. Sign up, login, create/read/update/delete tasks and have in app notifications remind you when a task is about to start.
Build Weeks are 2 week long sprints at the end of a unit meant to let students build a project from scratch using all the skills they learned. For the Back-End build week I created a Back-end server with RESTful API endpoints and a relational database for persistent data and authentication. Built using Node.js, Express, Knex.js, bcrypt.js, nodemon, sqlite3. Github link
Simple calculator built using React hooks. Click the toggle to switch between Apple and Windows themed calculators.
This React app consumes CoinGecko's free cryptocurrency API and outputs data for the top 100 cryptocurrencies sorted by market cap.
Build Weeks are 2 week long sprints at the end of a unit meant to let students build a project from scratch using all the skills they learned. For the UI/UX build week we created a responsively designed marketing page for an app to view FIFA player stats. Built using LESS preprocessor, media queries and DOM manipulation with JS query selectors. Click the player names to expand.
I grew up in small town Wisconsin. After getting my bachelors in finance from UW-Oshkosh, I
began working as an associate project manager at an IT consulting company. Two years later I decided I wanted
to leave home and see what a major city had to offer, and shortly thereafter I found myself in Minneapolis. I
continued to work in project management when a number of founders and VCs I follow on Twitter began buzzing
about this new coding school startup. I had thought about learning to code for years before and decided to
finally make the leap and join Lambda School's Full-Stack Web Development course track. The program began
on March 18th, 2019 and although the 15 hours a week felt grueling at times, I've learned about and
completed projects using HTML, CSS, LESS, Git, GitHub, JavaScript, React, Redux, Node.js, Express, SQL,
PostgreSQL, Python and more.
Outside of my professional life I like a good beer, black coffee, sunshine and
reading interesting things about technology, science, futurism, philosophy, history, money and blockchain.
This journey of learning to code was born from the convergence of a few realizations. The first was that the project management path I was on was a career largely consisting of soft skills. I’ve gotten the chance to work with very skilled technical people in several different disciplines, and witnessing their deep knowledge drove me to want the same technical problem-solving abilities and expertise that they had. The second reason for learning to code was brought on by a fascination with blockchain technology. I believe DLT will be incredibly transformative in the coming decades and I see a great opportunity to be able to contribute at an early stage. Beyond the sheer potential of this burgeoning new field, I’m excited by the possibilities it provides individuals across the globe in the realms of privacy, censorship resistance and freedom. Thirdly, I realized how much leverage code and the internet gives an individual. One person can write a program and instantly broadcast it to the entire world via the web. I knew I wanted to become well versed in this powerful skill so that I could give my ideas and the ideas of others that leverage. My foray into web development is just the beginning of a long journey towards producing technological solutions that power people, business and positivity in our world.
