About Me

A 50-something geek (and husband and father), typical of many though I'm not much of a gamer. Professional software developer for 28 years, specializing in library design and user interfaces. Current focus is on html5 technologies. Past experience includes Java/J2EE and PHP/MySQL.

Hobbies include landscape and event photography (no, I'm not for hire - support your local professionals), morris and scottish dance, celtic music, renaissance faires, contemporary classical (anything Debussy and beyond), progressive rock, some (not all) sci-fi/fantasy genre works, and classic and (some) modern PBS kids shows. In a retro mood, I do still listen to classic 80s and acoustic new age guitar.

Been living in Northern, VA (not a real town) for more than 35 years old now. And I like snow. Lots of it.

Skills

Professionally, I am working in Preact with Oracle JET or React.

Current personal projects are using newer ReactJS, experimenting with hooks and PWA features, using Material-UI. I've also been working a little with Electron and NWJS.

Prior personal projects generally involve Vanilla JS, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, Stativus, Observe-JS, and I am currently working on a lighter-weight ViewModel layer, as I think that too many libraries out there are too large as they replicate (without polyfills) too much of what modern Vanilla JS standards are able to provide. I‘m also now working more in React.js with Alt and Material-UI.

Education & Work

Oracle

Oracle Marketing Cloud (Eloqua)• Since April 2014

Currently a senior software developer at Oracle in Reston, VA, working on the UI of Eloqua.

Graduate of James Madison University

B.S. in Computer Science • May 1993

Older Projects (I need to update this...)

TipSheet 2

A basic tip calculator in jquerymobile, using Object.observe().

PictureTagGen

A utility to generate a responsive img tag from a flickr photo link.

SubFire Player

A JQueryMobile music player for the SubSonic cloud music server.

Joe Shelby