hello world, I'm

Thorrell Turner

a Software Developer based out of the Washington Metropolitan area

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About Me

I have always excelled at, & enjoyed, being more of a logical problem solver & tinkerer. So, after 15+ years in public relations & customer service I decided to pursue a career in Software Development.

Skills

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C++

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CSS

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HTML

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Java

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Kotlin

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Android

Education

B.S.

Computer Science 2021

Old Dominion University. Norfolk, Va.

Projects

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This is, of course, my portfolio website. Outside of the standard front-end stack, I used SCSS to style my code. This served as my first project I created with the intentions of going live with it.

Some Key Takeaways

  • SCSS First time using SCSS to write more organized & maintainable code.
  • Layouts Strengthened my familiarity with CSS layouts & display properties.
  • DOM Manipulation Built upon my JS knowledge & ability to interact with DOM.
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Care Corner is an Android application that served as the senior team project for my CS degree. This prototype served as my team's proof of concept for our application designed to increase the user's safety

Some Key Takeaways

  • Android Development Taught myself Android development independent of class curriculum.
  • API Integration Integrated the HERE API to build our mapping features.
  • Leadership Served as the organizational head & team lead of the project.
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This is a basic Node.js RESTful API modeled after an order management system. This API handles GET, PATCH, PULL, & DELETE requests for Orders, Products, & Users. Data is stored in a MongoDB Atlas database.

Some Key Takeaways

  • Node.js Served as my intro to Node.js / Express' basic capabilities & some of its related packages.
  • MongoDB Refined knowledge of NoSQL fundamentals & served as an intro to related tools such as MongoDB's cloud platform Atlas, & both the Mongoose & Multer packages.
  • REST Learned the RESTful style of design / architecture as well as the constraints all REST services should adhere to.
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This is a basic Web Developer Portfolio. This is written in HTML, CSS & JS. This project strengthened my understanding of code structure & use. In the end, it ultimately became a sandbox for me to experiment in.

Some Key Takeaways

  • Code Structure & Application Provided me perspective for how I would approach future projects was gained by observing how this was structured, why it was written a certain way, & the logic behind the decisions.
  • Responsive Design: Media queries were used to approach how the page is displayed on varying screen sizes. A lot was gained by viewing how these attributes altered the appearance & layout of the page.
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