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B.F. Griffith is a perpetually busy full-stack web-developer﹠software-engineer with substantial experience building enterprise scale applications but extremely limited availability for taking on any additional open-source collaborations or freelance side-projects, of which he consistently has several of his own underway to occupy his spare time… in addition, of course, to his plenty demanding﹠complex full-time day job always hungry for more productivity.
Consequently, if you’re hoping to engage his skills professionally for freelance consultations or substantially contributive design or coding collaborations on a project, it’d have to be an unusually enticing pitch for something that he personally happens to find extremely idiosyncratically interesting, too lucratively compensated to pass up, or both… Otherwise, he would most likely prefer to kindly point you toward any popular “gig economy” freelancing platform you prefer on which you might manage to hire a less experienced but adequately capable developer, or else recommend that you seek out other reliable local tech community resources who could be a better fit for more mundane or routine technical﹠programming needs (such as building you or your business a blog, portfolio website, or basic eCommerce platform). For anyone interested in actually learning how to code, however, he’s always more than happy to make the time to chat about his experiences in the tech industry over some coffee or tea sometime to offer whatever advice or mentorship he possibly can! ☕
technical SKILLS:
- strong experience with Angular framework SPA development using TypeScript
- capable of advanced reactive programming asynchronous techniques with RxJS Observables
- thorough knowledge of JavaScript／ECMAScript “vanilla” fundamentals plus substantial experience working with a variety of traditionally or currently popular libraries such as jQuery, Lodash, React.js,﹠Vue.js
- HTML﹠CSS＋SASS (“Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets”) as well as
.scss expert:
- can markup﹠style any website wireframe or design: either with pixel perfect fidelity to any granularity of particular design specifications or preferably by implementing “liquidly” scalable﹠responsive fluidly adaptable layouts that deliver excellently proportioned as well as functionally consistent interfaces﹠experiences on all devices… 🖥
- familiar with efficiently making the most of the ease, shortcuts, and common layout conveniences of Bootstrap, or similar User Interface components frameworks such as Google’s Material design system, but can also easily markup﹠custom-style more lightweight but still dynamic﹠modern looking sites from scratch as well with elegant, concise, and easily maintainable bespoke StyleSheets 📃
- expert responsive and／or adaptive design skills: proficient with media-queries, optimizing complex cascades of various breakpoints to target any specific devices as necessary, or implementing mobile-first development methodology to preserve maximal functionality﹠aesthetics at any viewport-size yet scale up layouts smoothly when displayed on larger screens, at extremely high resolutions, or zoomed to much higher than normal rates of magnification 🔎
- capable of ensuring that a website is ADA ⟦Americans with Disabilities Act⟧ compliant by conforming its code to WCAG ⟦Web Content Accessibility Guidelines⟧ international W3C ⟦World Wide Web Consortium⟧ standards such that its markup, layout, and styling is as perceivable, interactively operable, understandable, and convenient as possible for all users: particularly those with colorblindness, needing significantly scaled-up text, or using screen-readers…
- excellent working knowledge of many efficient command-line shortcuts, (
ZSH “Z Shell” or Bash “Bourne-Again SHell”) scripting, Linux CLI best practices, and remote repository version-control workflows, especially git／GitHub, Azure DevOps Team Foundation Server, etc.
- skilled with Linux servers﹠packages, SSH, basic networking, cybersecurity scans, patching﹠vulnerabilities management, CLI systems-administration tasks, etc.
- fully capable of utilizing, integrating with, revising, or augmenting API functionalities or routes written in most popular server-side languages, especially with well-documented restful-APIs’ endpoints… but candidly less experienced with building entire back-end APIs or microservices from scratch compared to dedicated senior back-end developers who can more quickly﹠capably architect﹠scaffold these in some of the more robustly feature-rich object-oriented server-side languages available…
- familiar with JSON, CORS issues, and JSONP, as well as creating﹠scaling＋maintaining JavaScript back-end solutions like Node.js＋Express.js or Cheerio.js ❨server-side
jQuery❩
- familiar with database architecture options such as
SQL 🆚 NoSQL; proficient using tools like MySQL, MongoDB, or Firebase
- familiar with Express.js, Handlebars, or various other “middleware” or templating options
- some familiarity with basic test-driven development using tools like chai﹠mocha or Protractor, Karma﹠Jasmine, etc.
- advanced proficiency with command-line-interface dependency-management tools like Node Package Manager ❨
npm❩
- familiar with Gulp.js or Grunt.js streamlined build-processes as well as more simple／manual yet powerful tools for basic prototyping and building pages or sites such as Webpack.js or BrowserSync
- familiar with using﹠customizing popular web-publishing tools such as Jekyll🧪﹠Ⓦordpress or Astro 🚀
- several years of junior level experience with .NET MVC, Razor, as well as Entity Framework C﹟ development maintaining﹠augmenting massive legacy enterprise applications for Deloitte’s Federal clients…
- conversant with many of the fundamentals (or transferrable concepts from other object-oriented languages) of ☕ Java, 🟥 Ruby on Rails, PHP, 🐍 Python, etc. but not yet a skilled practitioner of any of these languages
- continuously autodidactically progressing toward ever broader “full-stack” development proficiencies﹠capabilities as a relentless lifelong learner!
general professional SKILLS:
- adept at project planning﹠execution tasks requiring strong organizational, design, conceptual, or practical skills
- able to handle complex workloads in deadline-driven environments
- excellent general office computing skills: technologically savvy with efficient keyboard-shortcuts, adept research-skills, and proficient familiarity with most popular software tools such as Microsoft Office or the Atlassian suite of development﹠project-management tools such as JIRA
- exceptional written as well as oral communication﹠editing capabilities plus impeccable grammar﹠incisive detail-oriented textual﹠code analysis skills
- extraordinary vocabulary, reading-comprehension, and critical-thinking abilities to cogently parse and accessibly explain complex, dense, or highly technical texts
- creativity﹠imagination to visualize﹠clearly depict any concept, idea, or data schemas﹠diagrams — in addition to superior spatial reasoning
- diplomatic professional temperament to work cooperatively, synergistically, politely, and constructively as part of any development or cross-functional team
- insightful﹠interdisciplinary analytical learning skills regarding almost any academic subject; observant, detail-oriented, and adaptable
- superior presentation﹠performance skills honed through years of dynamically engaging and multimedia-infused teaching experiences
- excellent problem-solving, customer-service, and conflict-resolution skills; unflappably able to always keep a cool, calm, and helpful demeanor
- well-travelled: broad intellectual horizons, including personal familiarity with diverse perspectives﹠cultures after visiting many foreign countries
- semi-fluent: French, as well as a good working knowledge of etymology, especially Greek﹠Latin roots, plus strong proficiency with philosophical symbolic logic, which can be extremely helpful for coding complex queries, conditionals, or validations
- competent visual-arts skills: with pencils (whether color or grayscale) as the most proficient medium, but some aptitude with paints as well
- a good understanding of art history, proportions, perspective, shading-techniques, color-theory, etc. (all of which translate well into unusually thoughtful﹠elegant web-development typography, layout, design, and UI／UX sensibilities﹠best practices)
- a classically trained baritone singing voice! 😮
EDUCATION:
Coding-Bootcamps:
Coding-Tutorials, autodidactic:
Graduate School:
- Bennington College — Bennington, Vermont
- Master of Arts in Teaching Degree, History Education: June 4, 2005
Undergraduate:
- Hamilton College — Clinton, New York
- Bachelor of Arts Degree: May 25, 2003
- Major: philosophy, Minor: history
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES＆Curriculum Vitæ 📋
full-stack Web-Developer:
- Front-End Developer at MetroStar (May 22, 2023 through present), working primarily on Angular front-end development with a Java back-end for enterprise scale Marine Corps projects.
- converting legacy Java Struts applications to Angular＋Spring with significant UI/UX upgrades＆modernizations!
- Solutions Specialist at Deloitte working on a wide variety of enterprise scale Federal consulting projects (February 6, 2017 through May 8, 2023) with tech-stacks involving a plethora of frameworks, libraries, APIs, microservices, complex networking or cybersecurity or DevOps deployments requirements, and other Systems Administration tasks serving diverse U.S. government clients, with most of those projects requiring his active Top Secret Security Clearance
- promoted to Solutions Specialist after three years of extensive development＆deployment experience
- utilized a plethora of frameworks, libraries, APIs, databases, cybersecurity or DevOps configurations, and many other technical architecture components to achieve extremely diversely varied functional requirements depending on client goals in order to efficiently meet rapidly iterating agile delivery deadlines
- excellent front-end technical capabilities crafting＆deploying meticulously detailed as well as liquidly responsive stylish User-Interface layouts which look＆function great on any size of device screen, complex form validations, datagrids, graphical visualizations, intricate workflows involving numerous asynchronous interactions, or scrupulously comprehensive documentation (such as for DISA STIG or Section 508 Compliance requirements)
- smooth collaboration with other developers as well as on cross-functional teams to produce high quality deliverables
- clear communications＆demonstrations of feature designs or functionalities during demos to clients or other stakeholders
- equally comfortable with agile, hybrid, or traditional delivery methodologies
- proven experience thriving on creative＆iterative problem-solving challenges and relishing continuous learning opportunities
Substitute-Teacher﹠freelance Web-Developer:
- Kelly Services — Osceola﹠Orange Counties’ Public Schools
- November, 2012 through February 2013 and October 9, 2013 through September 2014
- worked in a flexible, on-call capacity for elementary, middle, and high schools teaching nearly all grades﹠assorted subjects
- Despite switching careers quite drastically midlife to become a web-developer, Mr. Griffith is proud of his service over several years as a substitute teacher (no matter how overqualified) in various schools around Orange County at a point when he was still autodidactically learning to code while doing freelance web-development work, but also still considering perhaps continuing with his first career as an educator in some capacity that could better leverage his technical skills. At the time, this job was a flexible option to supplement his income while building up proven professional experience as a coder before he was recruited by Deloitte.
Social-Studies Teacher:
- grades 9⤑12 (August, 2005 through June, 2012)
- New Dimensions High School — 4900 Old Pleasant Hill Road, Kissimmee, Florida 34759
- taught ninth through twelfth graders Advanced Placement world history (College Board certified＆tested); also taught world history, American history, global studies／geography, American government, and economics (in addition to honors level versions of nearly all of those classes)
- awarded as a member of Florida’s 2009 first-place High School Literacy Leadership Team of the year, which fostered excellence in literacy education by outstandingly improving students’ reading-comprehension＆writing skills, encouraged enthusiasm for unassigned reading as well as abiding lifelong enjoyment of books, designed＆conducted faculty professional development sessions focused on teaching reading, and enhanced the overall literary rigor of the academic environment
- developed comprehensive, creative, and innovative curricular＆lesson designs incorporating research-based teaching techniques that produced results which consistently exceeded the standardized learning objectives of the state of Florida
- skilled at differentiating＆individuating instruction as well as effectively scaffolding lessons to keep students of all levels optimally challenged, encouraged, supported, and rapidly progressing in their zones of proximal development
- Volunteered hundreds of hours as the faculty coach＆facilitator for seven years of the school’s Chess team as well as the Fine-Arts club (teaching interested students basic drawing＆painting in addition to more advanced techniques of perspective, proportion, composition, blending, shading, etc.)… These experiences augmented Mr. Griffith’s already rigorous fine-arts＆visual-design liberal-arts＆humanities educational background, ultimately adding unusual depth as well as creative spatial＆aesthetic reasoning approaches to many of his web-development UI/UX design implementations or layout＆styling capabilities.
Assistant-Director: Camp Orca — American Red Cross (Green Mountain Chapter: Shaftsbury, Vermont)
- June, 2004 though August, 2004
- supervised three counselors and was responsible for the curriculum, instruction, and safety of summer day-campers (ages six through thirteen) 🥾
video-store Clerk at Movie Gallery
- Summer, 2003
- jockeyed a register in a local video rentals store, kept its shelves stocked, and kept its inventory updated; this job was the definition of “unskilled” entry-level minimum-wage drudgery, but it did at least sometimes feel like playing a character in a Kevin Smith movie… 📼
baker at Interstate Brands Corporation
- Summer, 2002
- B.F. Griffith worked a variety of jobs on the “Wonder bread” brand buns, breads, and croutons assembly lines; mind-numbingly boring doesn’t even begin to describe the experience of serving as a literal “cog in the machine” by doing relentlessly repetitive physical labor functions that were ripe for being automated out of existence whenever management could muster the capital for upgrading their factory to more advanced＆streamlined baking machinery. It’s doubtful anyone who worked there could forget the giant quantities of industrial scale preservatives dumped from five gallon buckets into most supermarket “bread” aisle baked goods to enable the “Wonder” of such unnaturally long shelf-lives; indeed, those experiences can tend to motivate more expensive tastes ever since for preferring significantly fresher, more artisanal, and admittedly much more perishable baked goods whenever they’re available. Machines kneading huge balls of dough the size of cars are emblems of modernity quite impressive to behold though… and could fit right into the awesome time-lapse cinematography of a Ron Frike film, although even the mesmerizingly entrancing minimalism of a Phillip Glass style musical score could not have made overtime shifts at that baking factory seem to end any faster. This was certainly the sort of job that underscores the crucial importance＆value of labor unions and collective bargaining! 🍞
irrigation-systems installer and technician at McClurg & Creamer
- Summers of 2000 and 2001
- B.F. Griffith progressed from general labor, landscaping, and lawn care to a broad working knowledge of all fundamental aspects of irrigation-systems installation＋maintenance of both residential＆commercial sprinklers. While far from the most “enjoyable” trade or handicraft he has ever learned, it was definitely the sort of occupation that could deservedly be featured on Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs” documentary series; doing that work over several summers was great exercise in the strong prime of youth, and it certainly also taught some harsh lessons about what the value＆dignity of hard work ought to be for wage earners routinely performing hard labor tasks in a more just＆respectful society than the dehumanizing＆exploitative one we unfortunately still perpetuate.🚿
stock-clerk and salesperson at Meijer, Inc.
- Summer, 1999
- B.F. Griffith had sole responsibility for restocking＆counter-sales in the gifts, lamps, small appliances, and jewelry departments on the graveyard shift; at least it was a step up from Walmart working conditions despite also being open 24 hours, but there were still plenty of sketchy characters to deal with or try to keep an eye on while juggling the primary responsibilities of constantly stocking shelves throughout many a weary night singlehandedly “tending” so many departments, but at least the job was occasionally full of some entertaining surprises for the equally understaffed night shift store security and “loss prevention” team to deal with… Suffice it to say that “the customer” is definitely not always right! (and indignant demands to speak with a manager usually only underscore that, especially when it comes to grifters) 🏪
sailing instructor at North Cape Yacht Club
- Summers of 1996 through 1998
- B.F. Griffith was responsible for day-camp counseling, instruction, and dinghy racing regatta training of junior sailing students (ages six through fourteen), as well as general equipment maintenance＆safety; this was an extraordinarily fun job that unequivocally made him the capable, competent, responsible, and experienced sailor that he is to this day! ⛵
