I've been writing code since my 2004 "Introduction to Computer Programming" Visual Basic class in high school. Since then, I've learned a few more languages and have worked on some very cool projects. Scroll below to see my portfolio, my skills and familiar technologies, and various things I'm interested in learning.
From 2014 until 2023, I spent a huge chunk of my work life focusing on developing, rebuilding, and improving teamcoco.com and its custom CMS as an employee at Conan O'Brien's Team Coco.
In working for Team Coco, my toolset expanded massively. I went from focusing on little chunks of code to getting very comfortable with making software architecture decisions and utilizing various cloud services. All of this occurred on a website with a constant stream of traffic.
Watch as I attempt to explain some software development concepts to Conan. Spoiler alert: it goes poorly.
In 2018, Conan acquired the rights to his NBC show and wanted to release as much of it as possible online. Team Coco stepped up to the challenge. This project began with digitizing terabytes of old video, organizing it, creating content approval workflows, and publishing online.
Much more than a reskin of teamcoco.com, Conan Classic had its own challenges of content discovery, tagging & organization, and UI needs. But the average time on site numbers lead me to believe that the project continues to be a success.
In much more recent times, I have assumed a more technical coding role for a website very near and dear to my heart, The Hard Times. Popularly described as "A punk rock version of The Onion", The Hard Times has been serving daily satirical content for nearly a decade. It also has partnered with e-commerce operations and various advertising endeavors.
I began and continue to serve as a freelance written contributor, but the timing recently worked out to help build out new features and products related to The Hard Times and its sister site Hard Drive (which focuses on video games).
Since that first Introduction to Computer Programming class in the early 2000's, I have mastered the use quite a few programming languages and technologies. This is not a definitive list and I am always excited to learn something new.
You never stop learning, so here are some technologies and concepts I'm interested in learning and am adding to my pipeline of free time projects (lol "free time" what is that?)
