Hi ReadMe, I'm Vincent! 👋

And I'd really like to work for you! I love to write clean CSS, lightweight JS, and semantic HTML.

Here's a quick Google Site on what I've worked on, professionally and personally. ⬇️

I got to tell everyone how much money Ameriprise is making. 💁‍♂️

Joking aside, the Ameriprise Annual Report 2021 is a static page written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a dash of jQuery. The site is an adaptation of its printed version, and I was allowed to modify the design to format it appropriately for web.

I also helped update several Ameriprise products to use React.

A lot of legacy products were using Freemarker, which I helped update to use React. The majority of new product landing pages are now comprised of React components that can be customized using an internal CMS. These include:

📘 IRA Brochure

⏯️ Personalized Advice

💳 Credit Card Cash Back Calculator

🤝 Client Relationship Guide

📈 Annual Report 2022

I like to try out new things and test my creativity. 🤔

This project was an exercise in creativity, and - please bear with me here - was built with a "no-coding" framework.

Designing this app was more just for fun, and to see how we (a few friends and I) could focus on creating a very unique and fun user experience. The result was a habit tracker that, in order to mark a task complete for a day, required you to pull a sword from a stone (the sword was my idea). We had just watched King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, so that may have played a part in my creative process.

I also created all the mockups for the App Store. 🧑‍🎨

Sometimes I work with small businesses to build their site.

I built the site formtoideas.com for Luther Mercer, a friend of a friend. He already had designs created, and just needed a developer to make it happen. I created this static site in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make it as lightweight as possible, while also focusing on transitions and animations to give it a sleek and polished user experience.

I don't charge as much as I should for it, but I think it's fun! 💸

Watson Insurance Training was for another friend of that same friend, and was an existing WordPress site that I helped rebrand. I was given a new design that used the existing functionality - and using only CSS - repositioned elements, altered the color palette and typography, and generally changed the basic WordPress theme to resemble the new design.

I can do real coding for mobile applications too. 😅

Unlike the app I mentioned above, I can actually code for real in React Native. I worked on Osmosis's mobile app which provides video resources and study tools for medical students. I also worked on their web application which offers the same features (written using Knockout).

I helped rebrand Thomson Reuters Westlaw with a whole lotta CSS.

One of the largest design projects I worked on at Thomson Reuters was rebranding their flagship product, Westlaw. This involved a lot of componentized CSS that was dependent based on product variation, locale, and user permissions.

I also helped build Thomson Reuter's current reusable UI framework 🧩

When I first joined Thomson Reuter's front-end team, they were just beginning to create their internal UI framework using Angular and Bootstrap. This framework can be seen in several of their new products, most prominently in Thomson Reuters Panoramic.

I actually started off my career as a full-stack developer.

The very first product I worked on at Thomson Reuters was Firm Central, which was a .NET web application. This was also where my animosity towards Microsoft products began (just kidding kind of). 👿