Occupational Health & Safety

Demonstrates my knowledge and ability in adopting Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) behaviours into my everyday work practices.

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

Demonstrates my knowledge and ability in implementing Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems (WHMIS) practices in an industry environment.

Database Clinic: SQLite

This certification demonstrates my knowledge in utilizing the RDBMS, SQLite to effectively manage the various types of data stored in a relational database.

Become a SQL Developer

This learning path certification testifies to my knowledge in utilizing SQL to create simple CRUD applications capable of manipulating data in a relational database via custom queries.

Git Essential Training: The Basics

This certification demonstrates my knowledge in using Git to implement version control into any software development project.

Learning GitHub

This certification demonstrates my knowledge and ability to utilize both web browser and desktop versions of GitHub to create code repositories, commit (push) changes to repositories, and create pull requests as part of the software application's version control system.

Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design

This certifcation demonstrates my knowledge in OOP theory and principles, as well as the OOP approach to systems analysis and design.

Learning GitLab

This certifcation demonstrates my knowledge and ability to use the version control technology, GitLab to manage software development projects via project issues and milestones.

Learning Microsoft Project

This certifcation demonstrates my knowledge and ability to utilize MS Project to effectively manage the tasks, milestones, schedule, and resources required to successfully complete an IT-related project.

Learning Jira Software

This certifcation demonstrates my knowledge and ability to utilize the project management software tool, Jira to effectively manage software development projects through the creation of issues, filters, and dashboards.

VB Mileage Calculator

This course gave me the opportunity to work with Visual Basic in the Visual Studio 2017 IDE. This assignment required the construction of a GUI application used to dynamically calculate the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by a company’s employees. It tracks variables including distance traveled (km), regular reimbursement rate ($/km), flat reimbursement rate ($/km), number of days employees qualified for the flat reimbursement rate, and total number of days spent traveling.

JFrame Veterinary Record Updater

In preparation for the final exam in my Java course, I used Java, JFrame, and Eclipse to create this GUI application for a veterinary office. It allows users to sort through an array of veterinary records (objects of type custom class “Cat”) and input data for each. I am quite proud of this application as I constructed it completely on my own by integrating concepts from previous class assignments.

C Video Rental File System

The final project for my C programming course gave me the opportunity to use the skills I learned in class to develop a text-based database application for a video store. Using the application, users can input data for each movie available for rent, such as title, director, release date, etc. Each entry is appended to the end of a linked list, which in turn can be saved as a binary file. The application can then be used to load a previously saved binary file to work with all the movie entries saved within it. This was by far the most difficult program for me to create and required me to really exercise my research skills to complete it.

Figma Prototyping

This work sample is the mock-up of a mobile application, "GotSpot?" my group designed for our final application development & design project. This project was wide in scope and required effective teamwork and collaboration skills to successfully complete it. I lead our team by assigning tasks to each member, performing regular check-ins, and updating our Trello board to reflect our progress. The result was a working digital prototype of our application created using Figma.

Blackjack Mobile Game

• Purpose: Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to develop mobile applications for Android using O-O Java.
• Skills: OOP, Java, Android Studio, Mobile Development, Shared Preferences
• Improvements: Implement a GUI menu using JPanels to allow players to view game controls and high scores prior to launching the game
• Benefits: Accessing the Internet through mobile devices is becoming common trend among users. Responsive, mobile-friendly applications offer businesses the opportunity to engage a wider audience at any time of day
• What it Says About Me: Ability to develop applications for targeted platforms that maintain optimum performance on the native device

Qt5 Tutorial

This work sample demonstrates my ability to utilize online resources (such as tutorials) to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to adapt to new technoligies. This tutorial taught me how to create GUI-based widgets using C++ and the Qt5 library in the Qt Creator IDE. GUI-based applications tend to be a lot more user-friendly than command-line applications; thus, I am interested in learning more about the integration of C++ and Qt5 in the future.

Space Invaders Game

• Purpose: Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to develop client-server Java apps using advanced OOP principles
• Skills: OOP, Java, Eclipse, Multithreading, Client-Server Model, SQLite, Research, Time Management
• Improvements: Implement a GUI menu using JPanels to allow players to view game controls and high scores prior to launching the game
• Benefits: Inheritance in OOP produces more efficient code by adhering to the DRY programming principle
• What it Says About Me: Ability to work independently on a large project under minimal supervision

Pure HTML5 & CSS3 Web Page

The final project for my website development course was to create a website demonstrating as many HTML5 and CSS3 skills taught in the course as possible. This course was virtually self-taught and relied heavily on my ability to acquire and apply knowledge from a textbook. One of the biggest challenges I had to overcome was learning how to relatively position elements on a webpage so that they render properly regardless of a device's screen size. I put a tremendous amount of work into this project because it incorporated one of my greatest passions – baking! At the time, I was proud of how it turned out. However, as you can see from my virtual storefront work sample, my website development skills have become more polished since learning some basic JavaScript.

E-Commerce Storefront

This website builds on my previous bakery website by implementing JavaScript and PHP to create a more responsive, interactive, and dynamic user interface. By incorporating product modals, customers can view additional information about bakery products in pop-up modules on the same screen. Additionally, the entire site loads on a single page, meaning users never have to open a new window to view the home, about, or contact pages. Unlike my first bakery website, the use of PHP on this site allows the “Contact Us” form to forward the completed form to a server. This sleek and simple design based on best practices for UX and UI make this site one of my most impressive GUI-based projects yet!

E-Commerce Inventory Management System

• Purpose: Demonstrates knowledge of and ability to develop websites following the MVC design pattern and Laravel framework.
• Skills: HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Blade, JS, MVC, Laravel, MySQL, E-Commerce
• Improvements: Implement functionality to allow customers to register an account and to streamline the checkout process (i.e. retrieve customer contact, billing, & shipping address from database)
• Benefits: MVC is a well-etablished web design pattern to keep code modularized and has an abundance of online resource documentation
• What it Says About Me: Versatile ability to code for both front- and backend

Visio 2016 ERD Construction

This work sample demonstrates my ability to logically represent a relational database by constructing an entity-relationship diagram (ERD) using Microsoft Visio. This is a critical step in database design as it provides an opportunity to analyze and plan the entities, attributes, and relationships to include in an information system before coding or implementation of the design occurs.

Presentation Delivery

This work sample demonstrates my ability to research and deliver an oral presentation on an IT-related topic. I chose the topic of cloud computing since I knew very little about it prior to this assignment. Therefore, it required thorough research to explain the topic in my own words. I was very nervous to present to my peers, but as evidenced by the feedback I received, it went exceptionally well!

IT Market Research

This work sample demonstrates my ability to conduct job market and IT industry research to discover the skills and certifications currently required to compete and excel in today's IT industry. The IT profession is always changing; therefore, it is critical for IT professionals to be aware of current trends and adopt a philosophy of lifelong learning.

Video Interviewing

This work sample demonstrates my ability to prepare for video interviews by anticipating iterview questions, preparing strong responses to those questions, and presenting the most professional version of myself to potential employers. This is an invaluable skill to have in today's job market where so many employment opportunities have become remote in response to COVID-19.

Packet Tracer IP Configuration

This work sample demonstrates my ability to configure a small network according to system requirements using packet tracer software. To accomplish this, I had to work with subnet mask addresses, converting them between binary and decimal form as required.

Jira Software

This work sample demonstrates my ability to utilize Jira Software to effectively manage software development projects via the creation of custom projects, issues, filters, and dashboard views.

Windows 10 Group Management

This sample from my Windows administration course demonstrates not only my ability to produce clearly written knowledge base articles, but also my awareness and ability to manage systems security via the creation and assignment of users to groups. I learned it is much more efficient to assign custom permissions to a group, and then assign the required users to that group rather than assigning custom permissions to each individual user.

Linux (CentOS) Scripting

This sample from my Linux course demonstrates my ability to write a simple script that can be run using a single command, or even set as a cron job to run at a specified date and time. This particular script allows the user to input two directories: the first of which will have all its contents backed up (copied to) the second.

SWOT Analysis

My systems analysis course taught me how to perform a SWOT analysis to asses a business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This a critical task during the systems planning phase, as the SWOT analysis provides invaluable insight as to whether developing (or purchasing) a new system or application is feasible for a business at that point in time. It also emphasizes the importance of planning in the IT industry, as major projects can cost businesses thousands if not millions of dollars in resources; more if the system is not planned properly!