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<title>Javascipt Developer - Portfolio</title>
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<h1>John Shaver - Web Developer</h1>
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<h2>About Me</h2>
<p class="attention">I am currently looking for a full-time
remote position (frontend or fullstack) working with a team in
a modern framework (preferably with React) to build or improve
an interesting and purposeful project.</p>
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<p>In high school studied Computer Networking Systems and
Computer Programming part time at the nearby Occupation Skills
Center. Since then I have been working with computers and
teaching myself Software Development. I spent 7 years working
in various Technical Support roles where I gained an in-depth
understanding of a variety of internet and server technologies.
So, when I shifted my career to software development, working
on web based software seemed an obvious choice.</p>
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<p>I have spent the last 4 years designing, building, deploying
and maintainging javascript applications. I've worked with
iOS, PHP, NodeJS, and more recently React/Redux. I enjoy
learning new things, solving difficult problems and building
software that assists my clients/users in achieving success. I
live in Hayden Idaho and my hobbies include Devops, listening
to podcasts, playing ukulele and, especially, spending time
with my wife and 3 kids.</p>
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<h2>Recent Software Projects</h2>
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<h3>NewVistas Website Platform</h3>
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
<p>Newvistas needed a replacement platform for
public-facing web content, encouraging communication
between users, managing deliverables from business
managers and allowing business owners and authorized
contributors to update content relevant to their role.
The platform needed to be easily deployable on multiple
domains and allow the maintaining developers to easily
customize styling differently between them.</p>
<h4>My Contributions</h4>
<p>I was the only developer on the project. I built
both the REST api and the frontend SPA to that used the
REST api. The REST api was kept separate so that the
project could actually run separate seamlessly
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integrated SPAs for each role it was trying to fill.
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<p>I designed the dev environment to be quickly and
easily rebuilt and deployed since I would be handing it
off to other devs to maintain. The build process is
designed to ensure optimized page loads and help with
cross-browser compatibility,while allowing for the
latest libraries and language improvements to be used.
Deploying is fast and easy as well as easily
reversible, leveraging AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2 and
S3.</p>
<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
<p>The backend was a rest API built with Node.js and
Express.js. The front end is an isomorphically
rendered SPA built wth React/Redux. The front end is
compiled from ES2016 to ES5 using babel and webpack.
Isomorphic rendering provides fast load times and
ensures search engines can index the public content.
Users authenticate with their AzureAD user via OpenID
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Connect. </p>
<p>Express was used to build out the REST endpoints for
the API mySQL is used via Sequelize.js ORM. Secured
endpoint authorize users based on their user roles and
ownership/roles assigned to different pages/groupings
taking into account assigned roles of parent groupings.
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<p>The development environment is run in vagrant with
virtual box and babel and weback were used to compile
and bundle the front end code. The app runs on
ephemeral ec2 instances and deployed to AWS Elastic
Beanstalk to allow for scalability.</p>
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<h3>Payzoom Econosystem Platform</h3>
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<img alt="The Payzoom Logo" src="images/PayZoom_logo.png"/>
<img class="main-image" alt="Payzoom Software Demo" src="images/payzoom.png"/>
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<h4>Project Goal</h4>
<p>Payzoom is a SaaS that allows a community of small
businesses and funding entities to work together to
work for each other and balance all the payments at the
end of the week including paying employees,
contractors, services fees, and expenses. Participants
need to be able to do work for any company on any
project and bill them accordingly as easily as if they
were working for their own company.</p>
<h4>My Contributions</h4>
<p>I wrote the initial payroll integration with
ZenPayroll to gather weekly totals and pass the
information to ZenPayroll as well as the code to send
and reconcile expense data and documentation to
QuickBooksOnline. Implemented some of the user
interface views including allocating overtime and
attaching files to reports/allocations and the
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associated backend.</p>
<p>While working on the project I also improved the dev
environment from one that required 2 days for a
developer to build a permanent virtualbox image to an
ephemeral environment in Vagrant that could be thrown
away and recreated in less than 20 minutes.</p>
<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
<p>Vagrant Payzoom was built with NodeJS and MySQL on
the backend and a custom built javascript frontend.
Communication between server and web was done via
websockets and a JSON command/sub/pub api that routed
particular requests/subscriptions to differnt modules
running on the backend. Payroll was processed via Gusto
and invoicing informaiton/documentation was passed to
QuickBooksOnline for paying invoices and tracking
expenses.</p>
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<h3>Novatek Native Wrapper App</h3>
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<img class="main-image" alt="Workaids App Icon" src="images/icon_work_aids.png" />
<img alt="Workaids Login Screen" src="images/workaids_login2.png" />
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
<p>The Client had an SPA optimized for mobile, but
wanted it to operate more like an app and have access
to the phones camera, bluetooth, geofencing, etc.
Since phonegapp was still immature, they wanted an app
built to wrap the current web interface and allow
reusing the existing web based code as much as
possible.</p>
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<h4>My Contrinbutions</h4>
<p>Initially I helped write many of the api calls for
the js library the web app used to communicate through
the webFrame to the native code. Later I helped out
with ad-hoc deploying the app and did some basic
maintenance and improvements on the native Objective-C
codebase. This included the PHP backend and Objective-C
code necessary to facilitate iOS push
notifications.</p>
<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>This was before phonegapp/cordova was very far along, so
they decided to build a custom wrapper app that wrapped
the webview and exposed the phone APIs to the website
via messages sent betwewn javascript and the Objective
C code. A javascript library was built that provided
an event based API to easier access the phone
functions. Grunt was used bundle the javascript
library. Some work was done in PHP to provide support
for the App to authenticate and to send off push
notifications.</p>
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