A Little Bit About Me
Hey! My name is Curtis and I'm a web developer with a passion for software development and design. I am recent graduate from Xccelerate's Full-stack Web Development Bootcamp.
I aspire towards a career that will allow me to continuously improve my skills and creativity through developing beautiful software and engaging user experiences.
When I'm not on the computer, I enjoy snowboarding, cooking, exercising, gaming, and spending quality time with family.
Hobbies & Interests
Web Developer
Gamer
Snowboarder
What I Do
Design
Design isn't just what a product looks and feels like on the outside. Design encompasses the internal functionality of a product as well as the overall user experience. I strive to improve myself to deliver visually appealing UI and experiences that people can enjoy on all digital platforms.
Development
I'm passionate about web design and development, and interested in web and mobile app development. As I begin my journey as a developer, I hope to write clean, readable code that can be used by others and leveraged to create beautiful software.
Passion
After working in various types of industries, I've always wanted to find something a career where I can strive for self improvement and continuous learning.
I wanted to find passion in work that wasnt the typical "just a job".
The more I learn about web development and how everything works together from the front and backend to provide the best experiences for the user, the more excited and eager I become to embark on my new journey into this wonderful world of tech.
Experience
I've been doing web development for almost 6 months now, with an eager determination to learn more in this fast paced industry.
Some technologies I've worked with:
Other Experience
In my previous role as a Consultant advising our corporate clients on all relocation related matters for their internal moves has provided me the opportunity to develop a strong set of transferrable soft skills in effective communication, collaboration between team members, vendors, and client contacts while using creative problem solving skills to ensure a smooth transition for each highly personalized relocations.
Check out my résumé!
ClassroomX
Capstone Project
ClassroomX is a web application built for our final group project. The goal was to create a single app which will allow instructors to use powerful teaching tools all in the same place to teach their students, and also to allow a more organic peer learning between students.
Built with the PERN stack utilizing Material-UI library
Travel App
Personal Project
This project was just for fun to practice front-end code using ReactJS, Bootstrap, and FontAwesome to develop a sample web application for a Travel Services
COVID19 Tracker App
Covid Tracker
This was a personal project to create a single webpage application to track the daily and total COVID19 cases worldwide. I practiced utilizing React Hook features and to make fetch API calls to disease.sh's API and update state based on the user's selected country displaying Total Cases, Total Deaths, and Total Recovered data.
Built with ReactJS, Material-UI, ChartJS, and Firebase
Netflix Clone
Website
Catching up on my favourite Netflix series, I was curious on how Netflix utilizes ReactJS to power it's application. I attempted to make a replica of Netflix's landing page using React Components and learned on the web how to utilize an API to pass props into a Card component to render different properties.
Built with ReactJS, Material-UI, and Firebase
Canvas Boys
Website
The first group project where we utilized HTML5's canvas feature with Javascript to re-create a Paint Application. My main duties were designing the wireframe with CSS and Bootstrap and basic drawing functionalities
Canvas Boys
Website
One of the first personal projects I created using with HTML5, CSS, and Javascript.. Just for fun!