Chris Howard
I've lived a weird life being a professional musician/teacher, a backpacking guru, a guru guru, a tropical fish doctor, a front end web developer and am currently working to open a houseplant shop.
Education
Pacific University
Pronouns
he/him
Work
Front End Web Developer
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Skills/Languages
pureCSS, SASS. Also JS and jQuery...you know, front end stuff. Thoroughly enjoying React, though not afforded to do so at my job. Professionally: BackboneJS, WordPress, PHP, ASP.NET (long time ago).
Currently learning
React, avoiding JS libraries (eg jQuery) and honing vanilla skills, ES6
Currently hacking on
At work...very little. Facilitating a conversion from a NetSuite/Oracle based BackboneJS site to Shopify but the firm opted to hire a 3rd party for the conversion. In my free time: React is awesome!
Available for
I have 15+ years as a dev but zero years professionally working in React and my firm does not challenge me. Any advice on how to pivot to a React-based place without a major pay cut is welcome.
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