Shawn Crigger

At SiteOne Landscaping Supply, I loved my job and threw myself into it 100%, Working hours that were not required, always willing to help. I tried to bring Standards to the existing team and was constantly rebuked for not wanting to change the way they always did it. I worked with a rare Product Management System that fed and consumed multiple API's, using GraphQL and REST API's, all feeding many different systems. When I first started the PIM system was 4 years out of date, and I managed to upgrade it to the last step before the major upgrade which would require a Linux upgrade, PHP 8, MySQL 8, and many other upgrades. As I built the upgrades I found many places of the same code or versions of the same code all over the place so I created a Trait and a Utility class to keep the code DRY. I had health problems and that is the only reason I am not with SiteOne anymore.

At Southern Tide Media, I handle the complex stuff, API connections, custom WP integrations, I was their first employee and I am still working there part-time. Since they are a small marketing company, they can not provide enough hours for me to pay my bills, so I am looking for a full-time position. # I started learning to program in the late 80s and early 90s when I was a kid, I learned Basic, QuickBasic, TurboPascal++, and TurboC++ before I was 15. I got into web development because I was running a vBulletin forum community with over 120k members and 3k unique member visits a day. From there I started freelancing and got a job in the office at Eagle Web Designs.

I am driven by my quest for knowledge, I love learning new languages, frameworks, etc. I have worked remotely in small teams, or just myself for over 10 years now, using everything from BaseCamp, Slack, Google Hangouts, RingCentral, and many others to communicate with the team.

I PRIDE MYSELF IN : Being a fast learner, I am completely self-taught and have built some large enterprise applications. Being a perfectionist, finding ways to make the job better, easier, or cost less while providing more value to it. Being able to jump into any project and finding my way around very fast.

MY KEY SKILLS INCLUDE : Writing Clean Re-usable Object-Oriented Code, Writing REST API's, along with reading and writing to SOAP/ XML, GraphQL, and JSON APIs, Setting up Servers, High level of Skill in PHP and Native JS, Along with CSS and HTML, Creating Responsive HTML Emails, Setting up Build Processes with GRUNT or GULP, Optimizing web sites for faster performance, Saving the client money if possible.