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HTML
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" />
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<title>Javascipt Developer - Portfolio</title>
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<body>
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<div class="flex-container">
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<header>
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<a href="">
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<img class="headshot" alt="Image of John's head." src="images/headshot-round-200.jpg" srcset="" />
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<h1>John Shaver - Web Developer</h1>
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<div class="social-links"></div>
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<article>
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<section>
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<h2>About Me</h2>
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<p class="attention">I am currently looking for a full-time remote
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position (frontend or fullstack) working with a team in a modern
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framework (preferably with React) to build or improve an interesting and
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purposeful project.</p>
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<p>In high school studied Computer Networking Systems and Computer
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Programming part time at the nearby Occupation Skills Center. Since
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then I have been working with computers and teaching myself Software
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Development. I spent 7 years working in various Technical Support
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roles where I learned an in-depth understanding of various internet and
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server technologies so when I shifted my career to software development,
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working on web based software seemed an obvious choice.</p>
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<p>I was hired to do web development at a consultancy in 2013. Since
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2014, I have been a freelance developer working with NodeJS and
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javascript and more recently React/Redux. I enjoy learning new things,
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solving difficult problems and building software that assists my
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clients/users in achieving success. I live in Hayden Idaho and my
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hobbies include Devops, listening to podcasts, playing ukulele and,
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especially, spending time with my wife and 3 kids.</p>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Recent Software Projects</h2>
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<h3>NewVistas Website Platform</h3>
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<div class="project">
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<img class="project-image" src="images/newvistas.jpg"/>
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>Newvistas needed a platform to replace their old website for
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both public-facing web content, encouraging communication between
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users and managing deliverables from business managers. The The
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new platform needed to allow managing owners to log into the
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website to update content relevant to their role. The platform
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needed to be easily deployable on multiple websites and allow for
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fast style customization between sites by the maintaining
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developer.
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>The backend was a rest API built with Node.js and Express.js.
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The front end was an isomorphically rendered SPA built wth
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React.js paired with Redux to manage state. Administrators
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authenticated with their AzureAD user via OpenID Connect.
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Content was isomorphically rendered on the server to allow for
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SEO and speedy load times. The development environment was run
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in vagrant with virtual box and babel and weback were used to
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compile and bundle the front end code. The app was designed to
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run on ephemeral ec2 instances and deployed to AWS Elastic
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Beanstalk to allow for scalability.</p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I was the only developer assigned to work on the project and
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developed it myself, so I built the rest api and the frontend SPA
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but my work also included designing the dev environment to be
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quickly and easily redeployed with a clean slate for testing.
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The build process was designed to ensure deployed code was
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optimized and cross-browser compatible while allowing for the
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latest libraries and language improvements to be used and the I
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designed the deploy process to be easy and quickly deployed or
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reverted with a greatly reduced chance of human error than
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previous deploy processes the client had used in the past.</p>
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</div>
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<h3>Payzoom</h3>
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<div class="project">
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<img alt="The Payzoom Logo" src="images/PayZoom_logo.png"/>
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</div>-->
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goal</h4>
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<p>Payzoom is a SAAS that allows a community of small businesses and
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funding entities to work together to get funding work for each other
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and balance all the payments at the end of the week including paying
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employees, contractors, services fees, and expenses.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>When I was working on payzoom it was built with NodeJS and MySQL
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on the backend and a custom built web-based frontend. Communication
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between server and web was done via websockets and a JSON api. The
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backend had to communicate with Gusto(ZenPayroll) and
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QuickBooksOnline APIs. </p>
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<h4>My Contributions</h4>
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<p>I wrote the initial payroll integration with ZenPayroll to gather
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weekly totals and pass the information to ZenPayroll as well as the
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code to send and reconcile expense data and documentation to
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QuickBooksOnline.</p>
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<p>While working on the project I improved the dev enviornment
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from one that required 2 days for a developer to build a
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permanent virtualbox image to an ephemeral environment in
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Vagrant that could be setup in less than 20min.</p>
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</div>
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<h3>Novatek Native Wrapper App</h3>
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<div class="project">
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<div class="project-info">
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<h4>Project Goals</h4>
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<p>They had an SPA that already had a mobile view, but they wanted
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it to operate more like an app and have access to the phone camera,
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bluetooth, geofencing, etc. with a native work flow. They wanted an
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app built to allow this while reusing the existing mobile website
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as much as possible.</p>
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<h4>Technologies Used</h4>
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<p>This was before phonegapp was in much use so they went with a
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wrapper app that wrapped the webview and exposed the phone APIs to the
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website via messages sent betwen javascript and the Objective C
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code. A javascript library was built that provided an event based
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api to easier access hte phone functions.
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<h4>My Contrinbutions</h4>
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<p>I came onto the project later and helped write alot of the api
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code for the javascript library. I also helped out with deploying
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the app to the app store and did some simple maintenance on the
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Objective C codebase. I also wrote the backend and Objective C code
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necessary to facilitate push notifications.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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</article>
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</body>
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