Personal Projects

Work hasn't kept my software development skills sharp, so I've been keeping up to speed on my own. Here's a sample of some of the projects I've done in my spare time.

Trip Muse

Online travel, reinspired.

Created during Startup Weekend Ogden, Trip Muse helps you find new places to travel and makes it easier to book. By focusing on high-quality, curated images, Trip Muse makes it easier to see yourself exploring new and interesting places. Uses node.js, mongoDB, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Bootstrap.

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Scorebot 9000

Score your parties.

Built on top of Google's AppEngine, Scorebot 9000 is a roll-your-own scoring system for events. Players can register and submit scores to the system via SMS (provided by Twilio). Written in Java, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and XML. (image credit)

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maproulette

Find new places on the way.

Looking for a quick bite of lunch on the way to a meeting across town? Or a dry cleaner on the way back to your hotel? Maproulette takes a start and end point and gives you a number of locations on the way, provided by Foursquare. Hosted on Google AppEngine, built using HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Foursquare's API. (image credit)

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tumbl8r

A Tumblr app for Windows 8.

A Tumblr application designed for Windows RT, created to teach myself the "metro" design elements in the Windows Store and modern Windows development practices. A work in progress, built in C# and XML/XAML using Tumblr's API.

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RiskRoll

Amp up your game of Risk.

My first Android application, written in 2010. Meant to replace the dice rolling portion of the board game Risk, RiskRoll allows you to do individual rolls (including shaking the phone), as well as roll out battles between armies. Built using Java and XML.

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Education

An alum of Arizona State University and Seattle University, I studied my two passions: business and computer science.

Master of Business Administration

Arizona State University | May 2011

Served as W.P. Carey School of Business Student Ambassador, promoting the school and its programs to prospective students
Member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honor society for business students
Studied finance, accounting, statics, economics, marketing, organizational theory, and management
GPA: 3.9

BS, Computer Science

Seattle University | Jun 2008

Earned 3-year, Type II Air Force ROTC Scholarship
Project Manager for four-person, year-long project developing a mobile web application for Areva T&D. Designed for a Windows Mobile device to interface with a SCADA system using C#, ASP.NET, and XML
Orientation Advisor for 2006, Orientation Coordinator 2007, Search Retreat Committee 2007-2008
Undergraduate representative for IT Strategic Council; approved campus-wide IT initiatives and helped write the University’s five year IT strategic plan
Took special courses in cyber security, advanced databases and data mining
Achieved Dean's List for four quarters
GPA: 3.5