Program a personal finance web application that works responsively (on mobile, ipad, and desktop), using React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, customized Ant Design and Ant Mobile UI components, styled-components, CSS, AWS CodeBuild, CI/CD, automated Cypress end-to-end and component testing, Zendesk for customer support, and Plaid for financial transactions.Enjoys tackling challenging technical tasks.Learn, evaluate and suggest new technologies.Help bridge the gap between designer, manager and developer.Contribute to UI / UX / gamification design meetings.Transform Figma designs into code.Discuss, write and assign technical developer tasks in Jira. Review code and offer guidance and encouragement to developers.Improve code performance and maintainability through refactoring.Use other tools or technology including Jira, Slack, Git version control, GitHub Actions, VS Code, Vim, node, npm, Webpack, Docker, etc.

Battlecraft: an educational math game for 5th graders. #STEMEver since I completed this project in Oct, 2022, it has been in use by students at Starbase Edwards.Given a codebase written by 2 different programmers, I began with testing, finding and fixing several bugs, commenting, and refactoring code.During multiple zoom meetings with a director / teacher / project manager and a technical liaison, I listened carefully to their requests and ideas and I also suggested and helped design new features.We iteratively improved the design (UI, look, flow) of the game. During the first meeting, we discussed the scope of the project, so that it could be completed in a reasonable time frame.Some changes I made:Programmed intel hints for the player and introduction to the game.Coded the dialog system.Improved usability on mobile devices.Improved the game board generation.Implemented different difficulty levels.Added end of game code and restarting game code.Modified artwork and created UI related artwork.Made simple animations.Lots of debugging and bug fixing.Made code more efficient.Wrote automated tests using PyAutoGUI.Tested on various browsers and screen sizes on laptop and mobile devices.This project was coded using Construct 3 game engine and JavaScript.

Update: most of this work was done years ago, but I still maintain the website occasionally.Improved website and experimented with new technologies. Coded using JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, CSS3. Went through several iterations from HTML4 to XHTML to HTML5. Today, it features a custom WordPress child theme and mobile-friendly responsive design.Created, programmed, and tested every web page. Web pages include vocab games and activities (word search, hangman, glitterati words), math question of the day, famous quote randomizer, polls, contact form, site search, news pages (removed), site map, legal, error, and admin pages.Wrote tools for maintaining the website in JavaScript and PHP.Tested on various devices: Android phone, iPhone, iPad, desktop Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer.Wrote 300 SAT math problems entered into MySQL database.Researched, wrote, and posted content for WordPress blog and social media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube).Edited images using Photoshop and GIMP.Improved SEO.Integrated 3rd party code (odds of getting into college, RevolverMaps, Google Ads, Amazon bookstore, Google Analytics).

Using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS designed a wedding planning website. Wrote 30 articles (eg about rings, flowers, cake, etc), bridal show and event listings, Los Angeles wedding vendor list (153 vendors and 27 categories) and detail pages, and contact form.

Designed and hand coded the website www.northridgechurch.net (not the current version) using ASP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Microsoft Access database. Improved the design, speed of access, and functionality over the previous version. Added photo album, contact form, member directory, quote of the day, and more.

Tutored 14 kids one-on-one every week with a personalized 90 minute lesson plan.

Wrote distributed robot control objects for the drive system and sensor input using C++ and CORBA, wrote low-level code to grab and process data from I/O boards controlling robot sensors and motors, modified MFC robot control application to process commands from a website, and researched video streaming and database technologies.

Wrote a web-based email client using Java servlets, HTML, Apache Web server, JRun servlet engine, Sybase database, and Sendmail on a Linux box. The email client could compose, encrypt, track, delete (even after sending), and read messages. Also helped design and write an email policy management system using JavaScript.

Network and Game Programmer, "Dr. Brain Online"​: Designed and implemented a persistent multi-player online world, client-server networking, database, and item and puzzle mechanics code. Used Winsock, Microsoft Visual C++, and Ace (an in-house multimedia engine language). Also ported a JumpStart game module written in C++ to Java for the company web site, and did some maintenance of server code for KnowledgeLand, a web-based multi-player 3D virtual world with educational games.Lead Programmer, "Steven Spielberg’s Director’s Chair"​: Programmed a 3 CD game, where players edit a script, select movie shots, edit video clips, add sound and music effects to create their own movie. Coding was done in Ace and used QuickTime movies. Helped design functional and technical specifications for the game and schedule programming tasks.Lead Programmer, "How Things Work"​: Prototyped sample game modules involving mechanical devices in Macromedia Director Lingo and helped design game play.Lead Programmer, "Space Adventure II": Programmed an astronomy reference product with 400 articles, a find the constellations game, moon phases and cause of the seasons simulations, movie theater, a 3D virtual museum, and 7 other modules. Used KAV, Perl, 3D-Studio modeler / render, and other multimedia tools.

Toolkit Group: Programmed Mac OS graphical user interface components for an operating system independent toolkit used by application developers. Also made a Klax arcade demo game.

Technical Interface Div.: Designed and coded a spreadsheet-like preprocessor for MSC/XL (a graphical modeling product). Used C, X-windows, Motif, and UNIX.

Project SEED: Designed and programmed a hands-on corn plant anatomy and physiology simulation for 4th graders.