MrJames

R O O T S

Childhood 👦🏽 Gadsden & Leon County, FL

High School 🎒 Florida State University High School

Colleges 👨🏽‍🎓 TCC - FSU - Keiser

Worldview 🌍 🌎 🌏 👁 Dignity above everything !

Ethnicity 🇩🇪 🤚🏻 + 🇨🇫 🤚🏿 African American & European American (Multi-ethnic) 🤚🏽

Handicaps ⛑
👓 -1.25 sphere vision in both eyes (notice the glasses)
🏵 Pollen irritation

Tech 📟 iPhone | Samsung Tab | Macbook | Dell

Other Hobbies 💯
-- Breaking(aka Breakdancing)
-- Acoustic Guitar and Song Writing
-- Parkour (Free Running)
-- Hardware Projects
-- Organic Farming and Earth-friendly lifestyle
-- Yoga
-- Startup Culture
-- Christian Lifestyle

Currently Reside 💛 Oakland, CA, USA

What I Enjoy Found Me

🖊 Design
I started early; Drawing intricate pictures of cars and machines that I dreamed up at the age of 16. I enjoyed viewing books that showed the cross-sections of machines. Everything I looked at I tried to piece it apart to understand each part - then put it back together to understand how the parts worked together to make the whole. My ability to design proved itself when I started to design for real companies at their request -what I enjoy found me.

⌨ Development
I began coding my own sites where I sold custom art in high-school. Early in College I found myself working with freelance clients. Then I landed a serious Development role for a year and really learned the ropes under a Senior Developer. Today I'm a Front-End (Client-Side) Developer who's been exploring the Server-Side as well.

🎨 Art
Curating art shows, leading interior branding projects, and dreaming up and then painting murals for businesses - I've continued to deeply embrace my artistic abilities. From my early teen years of drawing machines, model crafting, lego building, and drawing characters and writing 20 page stories to explain the characters -- I later found a special attraction to urban style street/graffiti art. Today I'm exploring a mixture of mediums on multiple surfaces, including digital works.

💡 Strategy
Artistic and logical abilities have given way to strategizing. I found I'm able to deliver answers to complex solutions by rapidly dreaming up multiple versions/approaches that then help narrow-down to an optimum solution - otherwise known as strategy followed by focus testing as a means to a more successful end product/service.

D E V ✅

GOOGLE + ACCENTURE + API.ai Test/Support for API.ai Integrations, Webhooks, Events, SDKs, and more ** Current Role : Application Test/Support Engineer

CREATORS CAMP + REGIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE & ART Electrode.io(ReactJS-Native + Redux + Express) + Firebase + MongoDB + Twilio API + Glitch API + NodeJS + RESTful Architecture + GreensockJS + HTML5 + CSS3 + Webpack ** New-release with curriculum : Role : Dev-Oversight

CREATORS CAMP + REGIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE & ART Ionic 2 (Angular 1-2) + Firebase + IonicDB + Twilio API + Glitch API + NodeJS + RESTful Architecture + GreensockJS + HTML5 + CSS3 + Webpack ** Re-release using rx.js reducers and Angular 2.X : Role : Dev-Oversight

MAGLAB -
SCI GIRLS + CREATORS CAMP Raspberry Pi 3 Setup + Photocell w/ Breadboard for Light Sensor Response on-screen + Minecraft API + Python Basics ** Completed Mid-2016 : Role : Engineer

INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN JIU JITSU FEDERATION + 422 AGENCY Ionic 2 (Angular 2) + Firebase + IonicDB + Twilio API + NodeJS + RESTful Architecture + GreensockJS + HTML5 + CSS3 + Webpack + Babel-ES7 + MapBox API ** New-release : Role : Dev-Oversight

REALTY SCHOOL 101 + CAMPAIGN ACUMEN 2018 Development Strategy & Strict-Prototyping : Custom Build : Total.js + Socket.io + HyperApp(Elm) + Babel-ES7 + Node.js + ReactJS-Native + MongoDB + RESTful Architecture + GreensockJS + HTML5 + CSS3 + Webpack + TBD.. ** Testing : Role-Previous : Web-Site Design UX-UI : Role-Current : Dev-Oversight

APP INNOVATORS Using Sketch, Marvel and/or Invision, Information Architecture, and Content Strategy for Mocking-Up & Prototyping Mobile-Web Applications for multiple clients ;
Designing App Interactions and storyboarding them with clients. Creating functional mockups for clients to interact and test prior to full-stack development process ; Working within product life-cycle to maintain SaaS products after deployment and debugging them and/or updating their UI/UX elements with JavaScript/CSS/HTML5 ** Quit for new Opportunities : Role-Previous : Creative Developer

NASA + FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Using NASA Data Portal APIs to pull data into interactive land-usage maps with D3.js ** 2nd Place : Role : Front-End Engineering UI-UX

DIVERSE COMPUTING + TECHNOLE Using Python + OpenCV + FFMPEG on macOS to detect faces in Police Video ; Processing raw pixel data and running Python library functions on each pixel object to return altered images to file system. ** Job Offer : Role : Python Developer

WEBSITES BUILT :
MAGLAB ACADEMY ; NIKON INTERACTIVE ; POUCH DATA ; ORCHARD POND PARKWAY Mobile-First using custom CSS and JavaScript as needed to provide a comfortable browsing experience: Hosting & Server Maintenance, Designing & Implementing Text, Images, Animations, and Video Content, Organizing Information to Engineer Functionality & Experience, Setting up and tracking with Google Analytics. ** Completed : Role : Web Developer

NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY + ZEISS + OLYMPUS + HAMAMATSU + NIKON Converted Java-Applets modeled after Scientific Data to JavaScript Front-End Experiences ; Importing large data sets from XML files into newly transpiled JavaScript Web-apps to provide fast and reliant education teaching materials for teachers to use across the globe ; ActionScript and/or Java-Applet Algorithms converted to Prototypal JavaScript utilizing requestAnimationFrame + GreenSockJS + AJAX (for importing raw scientific XML data) + JQueryUI + CSS3 + HTML5 Canvas + HTML5 Audio ; Using Adobe Illustrator & PhotoShop to prepare graphical assets for Front-End Experiences ; Re-designing graphically the supporting assets of the app for use within animated DOM experiences ; Fine-tuning the design of interactive UI to respond to processed XML data per element.
** Completed: Layoff due to NSF Funding Cuts : Role : JavaScript Developer : P I N G - M E for access to Projects @ github.io

Currently I am in transition out of multiple projects and have transferred production environments to remote developers within 422 Agency and Campaign Acumen