James Gould

[the programmer]

Contact Send me a message on my linkedin or email me at jamesagould123 (at) gmail.com.

What is this? I am an activist, web developer, and harm reductionist. This is a resume of my web dev related work.

Objective I'm looking for a job working on criminal justice reform or drug policy reform.

Work Experience

October 2017 to present

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

March 2017 to May 2017

Front End Technologies (HTML, Sass, JS) - Designed and developed front end interface for a custom web application.
Back End Technologies (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.

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.

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.

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#
humanesocietyofsedona.org - Implemented design with HTML/CSS, managed creation of initial ASPX website, assisted with upgrade to ASP.NET MVC C# with full e-commerce integration, helped with creation of CMS
thepcfixers.com - Helped with design, implemented design with HTML/CSS

Some of my free time is also spent developing, 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.

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 doodads on codepen, if you want to check out my knowledge of css and maths.