James Gould

Work Experience

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

October 2017 to present

• Design - Assisted with design and modifications to existing and new websites.
• HTML, Sass, PHP, Wordpress - Assisted with wordpress management and implementation. Implemented custom child theme, plugins, and modules for websites.
• Web Development Consulting - Consulted on a variety of technology related areas, including SEO, web security, and website analytics software.

Rose and Thorn Consulting

March 2017 to August 2017

• HTML, Sass, JS - Designed and developed front end interface for a custom web application.
• C#, Python - Implemented well-thought out back end interface with unit testing and API following SOLID principles.
• OCR - Integrated with Optical Character Recognition framework to process data from paper to electronic formats.

Mapleton Hill Media

May 2015 to March 2017

• HTML, JS, Sass - Developed clean, restructurable user interfaces with API connectivity for websites and applications.
• C# - Created full database driven web applications with Sitecore support, implemented Restful APIs for serving up database content in easy to access XML and JSON formats.
• Sitecore - Used the Sitecore CMS to build full, customizable web apps with a component-based design.

Studio 5

Nov 2013 to April 2015

• HTML, CSS - Helped with initial design and implemented designs using descriptions and images provided to me, introduced SCSS/Sass preprocessing to follow DRY principle and increase ease of maintenance.
• Javascript, jQuery - Built UI algorithms and various features, improved design patterns to increase code maintainability, ensured proper UX, hooked AJAX up with back-end controllers.
• ASP, ASPX, ASP.NET MVC with C# - Created full database driven web applications, upgraded existing systems, refactored code for greater versatility and reusability.
• SEO - Followed best practices relating to modern SEO, assisted with social media management.

Work Portfolio

I've helped create dozens of websites. Some highlights:

• aspensnowmass.com - Built out full browser support for componetized design with HTML/Sass/jQuery with Require, built various Sitecore components using C#
• caniexpunge.org - Built front end algorithm for displaying flowcharts, back-end interface for managing questionnaires and designed and implemented user-facing website.
• thepcfixers.com - Helped with design, implemented design with HTML/CSS

Personal Projects

I've developed some things on my own time, examples include:

• Arrows CSS Library - CSS reference library for creating various styles of CSS arrows and triangles
• jsdiff module - A javascript text differencing implementation I've contributed to.
• Full Screen Slides jQuery Library - A jQuery library for developing websites using Full Screen Slides that can slide in any direction - left, right, up or down.

But wait! There's more!

• My Website - My website includes my full personal portfolio and more information about me.
• Github Account - I also contribute to various Atom Editor packages and NPM packages on Github.
• Stackoverflow Account - I ask a lot of questions, and I also like to help other programmers out with their questions.
• Codepen Account - I have some pretty cool things on codepen, if you want to check out my knowledge of css and maths.