I chose to pursue software development because of the opportunity that this career opens up in terms of industries and roles. I enjoy the culture of continued learning; there's always more to learn and more to become. Prior to this, I was a technical writer/content writer/instructional technologist with over 10 years of experience in various industries and in numerous contexts.
I taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in Taipei, Taiwan for a year and decided to leverage that experience to create a digital flashcard app dedicated to ESL students. Modern language students are tech savvy and are consuming the majority of their language content from electronic sources. This app provides them a solution with the simplicity, ease, and time-tested reliability of pencil and paper, enabling them to create flashcards to learn words they come across online. Technical details related to this project are as follows:
I put my two small kids down to sleep every night and love telling them stories. They almost always tell me elements to include in the story: the characters, villains, setting, and so on. I tend to get the same story elements, and I want to spice up story time, so I decided to let technology help with that. This app enables parents to create a user account, add their children, and add specific examples to common story elements titles (e.g. hero, villain, setting, and so on). Then, parents are able to generate a random story prompt from those elements and save that prompt to the child's list of saved prompts. Technical details related to this project are as follows:
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