Joseph Overton

My Path to Development

I've always been intrigued by coding. As a lifelong technology enthusiast and tinkerer, learning to code has been a next step that I assumed I would take. The break in my over a decade of life on the road playing music has given me the opportunity to step back, take a breath, and examine what is possible. As an entirely self-taught musician one of my greatest joys in life is learning and developing new ideas and new abilities. I'm excited about embracing a new challenge and a new career that can provide some much needed stability and time at home with my growing family, along with a new frontier of concepts and skills to discover.

Technical Skills

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • ReactJS
  • Semantic UI React
  • C#/.NET Core
  • ASP.NET Core
  • SQL
  • SQL Server
  • Visual Studio
  • Git

A Few of my Projects

TuneList

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  • ReactJS web application for fiddle players to organize and store information about their tunes repertoire
  • Includes logic to categorize a tune based on key and tuning and create new (JSON-server) database entries
  • Custom minimalist inline audio player component, allowing quick access to uploaded audio

Truncheons & Flagons

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  • Completed an optional JavaScript team project in addition to scheduled course work
  • A scorekeeper app for a "popular tavern game" in the 1130's
  • Contributed custom events to:
    • Capture user input and translate to the scoreboard
    • Make team and player forms reactive
    • Pull team data from our “API”

Nutshell

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  • Social media application built with a team of 4, first in JS then in ReactJS
  • Created user authentication and messaging components in the JS version
    • Included global and private messaging as well as a long polling feature for near real-time chat
  • Built the article-sharing component with full CRUD capability in ReactJS
    • Added a Hook allowing users to add a friend from any other component

B&B Travel Planner

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  • Travel planner site built with Javascript and 4 external APIs
  • Designed a site focused on accessibility and the aesthetic of our user persona
  • Built several site features
    • saving selected routes to a local API
    • filtering data from the National Parks API to highlight accessibility options on the drop-down menus
    • using another API to create directions for the itinerary

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