Tyrone Norris

I’m a passionate web applications developer with over 20 years of experience freelancing and contracting my experience and skills to clients. My current goal is to secure a challenging, responsible position within a full time salaried or contract environment where my specialized skills and experience will benefit my employer while allowing my professional growth to mature.
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Skills

• Two decades of experience attacking problems and creating web-based with full stack applications
• Strong affinity to work collaboratively to meet deadlines in fast paced environments
• Understanding of databases and how to leverage them into forward thinking applications
• Strategic insight towards e-commerce, web analytics, and social media integration
• Skillful ability to translate business goals into technical solutions; valuable team member
• Mobile first, responsive design. Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
• Proven ability to generate organic traffic from search engine optimization
• Experience with Scrum Methodology and developing within Agile frameworks
• Excellent math/logic skills, brainstorming, and problem analysis resolution skills

• HTML to build web pages. The HTML DOM to define HTML elements as objects and as an API to allow Javascript interactions.
• CSS to describe how HTML elements are displayed. CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap, Material, Skeleton, Foundation & W3.CSS to develop responsive, mobile-first websites.
• Javascript to manipulate HTML, CSS & data. This includes VanillaJS, TypeScript, ECMAScript features, JSON & XML for storing and/or transporting data, and various libraries and frameworks to simplify development, extend functionality and organize components.
• Angular to extend HTML with data binding, declarative templates, components & dependency injection to build applications as full-featured frameworks.
• React & JSX to create interactive UIs. Design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render just the right components when your data changes.
• Vue to incrementally build ecosystems that scale between libraries and full-featured frameworks.
• StencilJS to build reusable, scalable web components libraries that integrate with React, Angular and Vue
• 508 & ARIA to create accessible web content.
• Search Engine Optimization to improve the positioning of web pages in organic traffic using on-page, off-page, technical and local best practices.
• Redux, NgRx & Vuex to control state containers designed to help write consistent applications on top of React, Angular & Vue.
• Express.js to create APIs in Node.js web application frameworks.
• Passport.js to authenticate middleware for Node.js.
• Storybook to develop UI components in isolation for Angular, React or Vue.
• GraphQL to query APIs and provide them with data.
• Grunt & Gulp to compile SASS to CSS, optimize images, and to squash/combine file contents together.
• Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal to manage content & extend functionality in systems.

• Node.js to write command line tools and for server-side scripting (running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser).
• PHP to program on the and to send and get request and data from and to databases.
• SQL (Structured Query Language) to access databases. MySQL databases for relational data. MongoDB for NoSQL data.
• Firebase.com to develop on a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides hosted backend services such as a realtime database, cloud storage, authentication, crash reporting, machine learning, remote configuration, and hosting for static files.
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) to provide on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs.
• Adobe Creative Suite to create mockups and wireframes. Ability to develop those designs into responsive pixel perfect pages.
• Visual Studio Code & IntelliJ IDEA to develop & test code.
• Git to manage version-control for tracking changes in source code during software development. GitHub repositories to share and build collaboratively.
• Jira to plan, track, and release software and track bugs using agile project management.
• Highcharts, D3.js and Google Chart tools to create dashboards and data visualizations from JSON APIs.
• API (Application Programming Interface) to consume RESTful data and to custom CRUD (create, read, update & delete) user interfaces.

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