Hey there 👋 , I’m a self-taught developer from the Cajun Prairies in rural Louisiana with a background in Industrial Design. I made the leap into the coding world in 2019 and havent looked back since!
When not at my computer, I am usually going on trips with my wife (sometimes our 🐶 comes along in our camper 🚐), reading sci-fi
Designer & Front End Developer at Discourse 
As a generalist, my work ranges from improving the UX & UI of Discourse, website updates, implementing designs on the front-end, & working with Enterprise customers to implement themes & Ember Components for their Discourse communities.
Feb 2020 - PresentCreated on: December 1, 2021
As Discourse began to implement Chat into their forums in a Pre-Alpha phase, I have been able to lead a lot of the design behind this new feature.
The focus has been to seamlessly integrate chat into the long form discussion experience, without taking away the depth & enjoyment that comes along with the power of the paragraph.
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Created on: July 1, 2021
In order to meet an assigned KPI for 2021, I designed a theme & set of components in order to give our users something more stylized & set apart.
Since it's release on our Community Support Forum, it has been received with overwhelming positivity!
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Created on: August 1, 2020
I was tasked with leading the creation the product site for our newly launched Discourse for Teams offering in 2020. The goal was to create a simple, but standout site that captured the fun feel of using Discourse for Teams.
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A simple single page app I created using React and the GIPHY API. I created it as a techincal assessment with multiple requirements. This was super fun for me to work on, and although I've used React for other projects, I felt like this one utilized many important aspects of React that make it a framework worth using.
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I created this app as an exercise to create a Pomodoro Method timer with Javascript and React. The user can set how long his/her breaks and work sessions should be. As the sessions are completed, a series of “Pomodoros” are filled in, showing the user how close they are to the finish of their work session.
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At the suggestion of a friend and mentor, I created this app to generate a static site from markdown files and handlebars template files. This project had me dive deep with the NodeJs file system module and I enjoyed working and manipulating user files on the system. This app is now functioning but is still a WIP.(Yes the name is based on Jurassic Park)
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I created this project to test the capabilities of integrating Twilio with my YNAB account. I want to create the ability to send a text message to a number and receive YNAB budget data back. This was my first back-end only other_project and I loved it.
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This was something I wanted to create as a challenge for myself right as I began to learn how to code. Unfortunately I had no idea where to begin. After 3 months of learning, this wasnt difficult it helped me to see the progress I have made since starting this journey.
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As an exploration of recursive functions in Javascript, I created this app as an exercise in the Watch and Code Premium course. The goal was to create a Todo List app that could also create nested todos.
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