Hi, I'm Rick. I...
My Experience
Specialist in need. Renaissance man at heart.
Front-end
- HTML
- CSS | SASS | Flex
- Javascript
- Jquery
- Bootstrap
- Material Design
- ReactJS | Redux
- VueJS
- API | Ajax
Back-end
- NodeJS
- NPM | Yarn
- Express
- MySQL | SQL
- MongoDB | Postgres
- RESTful Web Services
- Docker | Vagrant
- Python | Flask | Django
- PHP | Perl
- Laravel | Symfony
- Drupal | WordPress
- Composer | Drush
Tools
- Visual Studio Code
- Vim | Sublime
- Github | Bitbucket
- SSH
- Slack | Jira
- Zoom
Data Science
- Python
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Keras | Tensorflow
- Apache Spark
- Pandas | Numpy
- Scikit Learn
- D3.js
- Knime | Neo4J
- OpenCV
Work
Here are few of my former clients.
Bearco, Inc
Web
Bearco is a small business that imports fashion handbags from China and sells them to both wholesalers and the public using CyberCart, a Perl based shopping cart I created over 20 years ago. CyberCart also features a backend administration portal, integration with several payment systems (Authorizenet, Payflow Pro, First Data, and PayPal), and for Bearco is integrated with an inventory management system.
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Axanar Productions
Web
Created and integrated a responsive WordPress private crowd funding campaign website with a Laravel backer fullfilment website.
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Guardian Self Defense
Web
Assisted in the design and implementation of responsive Drupal Commerce website and also administrate the hosting server.
Visit WebsiteThirst for Knowledge
With web technology constantly evolving, I continue to take online courses and educate myself about up and coming technologies. Machine/Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things are three examples of developing technologies that have caught my attention. I would like to integrate these new technologies with my experience as a web developer to create new, practical applications. Below is a word cloud of the technologies I have learned and the bigger the word, the more I learned.
Projects
Here are a few of the projects I have done while learning new technologies.
Epic Google Maps Project
Web
I did this project while participating in the five day 6-Figure JavaScript Developer Challenge April 6th-10th, 2020, presented by Naz Dumansky of CleverProgrammers. I took this class because the project was a store locator using Google Maps and I was working on a React Native project and I needed a Venue locator for my app. Naz was a great teacher full of enthuisim and great knowledge. This project was 4 days of live coding with Naz and it was epic! At points in time there were over 1000 students coding along with him. For anyone learning JavaScript, I would highly recommend CleverProgrammer's lessons and programs.
Balena OCR Tesseract Docker App
balenaCloud
Allows uploading of an image for OCR using Tesseract and deployed using Docker. This project uses Flask, a light weight web server framework, which should be used for development purposes only. OpenCV is used to reduce noise in the image for better processing by pytesseract. Originally deployed in a Docker container on AWS - this version is revised to be deployed to BalenaCloud to a Jetson Nano device.
This repo was recognized by Nvidia and was featured on their Nvidia Jetson Community Projects.
Bluegrass Mandolin Picker
This is a clone of Classic-Piano-Composer and instead of piano music, I used bluegrass mandolin songs from Mandolin Cafe TablEdit Library (converted to midi), for training.
- Converted TablEdit files of bluegrass songs into midi files.
- Trained model on a Linux computer running Ubuntu 18.04 with 32GB RAM and a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card. Took approximately 10 hours to train the model.
- The model generates 2 minutes of random music in about 30 seconds.
This project trains a neural network to generate midi single instrument music files.