The first and last question should always be: "What's our goal?" Understand the problem and you can start on the solution.
My arts background and varied interests give me a unique perspective on coding (More on that below).
Solo project? Huge team? React? Angular? Vue? I'm game for whatever.
Trap meets made easy
Scoring for West Coast Swing
Time estimation and tracking
I started programming when I was a kid—a family friend gave us a computer he had cobbled together ("Frankenstein" as he affectionately called it) and my dad taught me enough QBasic on it to be dangerous.
In high school, I got hooked on the arts, hard. I started singing in choirs and writing classical music. I was in musicals and plays. I took up ballroom and swing dancing. I decided to pursue music in college (and, spoiler: eventually grad school, too).
While I was in college, I started working at Dorian Summer Music Camps. I was in the room when someone asked for tech help; eventually, that spun into being Registrar and running and improving a vast database of student records, class rosters, and rooming lists. I learned a ton about SQL and VBA, and working under pressure.
I finished a Bachelor of Arts at Luther College and an Master of Music at University of Northern Iowa, both in Music Composition. I did a bunch of cool projects, including scoring a musical. I also founded and ran two massive competitive ballroom groups. After finishing up at school, I moved to Rochester, MN and pursued freelance work in the arts.
After a few years in the arts, the hours and being 'always on' started to get to me. I started to hear the siren call of my first true love, programming. I decided I needed a change and chose to attend Prime Digital Academy to formalize and round out my skills.
