hello!
My name is Mike and I love solving problems. I've been doing UI development, UX strategy, and many various aspects of web design and development for 28 years. I'm currently employed as a Senior Front-end Developer with IBM Consulting.mission
My mission for work is:To work with diverse teams
of kind people, to
solve important problems
for my company, our clients,
and their users
my latest projects at work
Right now I'm "on the bench" in consulting parlance. This is time between-projects, usually full of formal learning, searching for a new project seat, networking with your contacts to find out about upcoming opportunities (...and worrying about your utilization percentage dropping below the threshold where you become a financial liability).
I recently wrapped up a four month project building a hub that helps individuals in need to connect with care providers and organizations. The project was already in flight when I was onboarded. The technologies we used were primarily Sveltekit, Typescript, and Sass. (this family of projects in IBM Consulting leverage this stack heavily). Backend data was provided by REST APIs but we did a lot of data aggregation, validation and filtering in local APIs.
Prior to that, I was the sole developer where I built a portal for transitional youth to receive notices about their official appearances, schedule and organize counseling and support meetings, and keep track of important documents. This was a tremendously rewarding project, built using Sveltekit, Typescript, and Sass.
latest from my blog:
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The Web that was, how we lost our way, and how to fulfill our promise to The Future.
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Why we don't do the things we should do.
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Now that my site platform of choice has stabilized, I turned my attention to design. This draws much inspiration from my local development environment and visual aesthetic.