James D. Daniels

Skills/Languages

Experience

Web Production Specialist

October 2016 - Present

Mayo Clinic

  • Building the Patient Education library in Sitecore
  • Developing and utilizing materials and videos to train in others
  • Optimizing work flow for greatest efficiency
  • Refining of Photoshop scripting tool developed in previous position

Photoshop Scripting Engineer

June 2016 - September 2016

Mayo Clinic

  • Using JavaScript to:
    • Intelligently automate Photoshop actions and
    • Generate reports for a project involving 4000+ images
  • Supervising other contractors working on the same project
  • Developing standard operating procedures
  • Making long-term plans for media management

Graphic Designer

November 2015 - December 2015

AirVuz.com

  • Independent contractor for a start-up that is the “YouTube of drone helicopter videos”
  • Created a set of custom emojis to liven up the website’s comment section

Full Stack Software Developer Student

June 2015 - October 2015

Prime Digital Academy

  • Solo Project (Minneapolis Hash House Harriers)
    • Website and administrative apps for the social/athletic club
    • Technologies used: MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js), MySQL, D3.js, Jade, jQuery
  • Group Project (Twin Cities PBS - Squatter)
    • Web-app for scheduling conference space on-the-fly
    • Acted as front-end developer and client liaison
    • Technologies used: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript

Sole Proprietor

May 2013 - July 2015

Puzzle in Motion

  • Worked alone and as a member or leader of film and video teams to produce promotional videos, documentations, special effects, and fiction
  • Producer and editor for a team in the 48 Hour Film Project- 2014 - 2016

Administrative Assistant / Teacher

August 2006 - June 2015

Oak Hill Montessori

  • Taught a class of children for 5 years under the rigorous standards of AMI (Association Montessori Internationale)
  • Designed Excel workbooks to track student immunizations, predict and visualize classroom vacancies, and analyze parent intake data
  • Created a database in Access to better track parent intakes
  • Performed all video needs for the school, including documenting performances and making commercials and promotions

Education

Full Stack Software Engineer Certificate

October 2015

Prime Digital Academy

Learned the full MEAN stack as well as other relevant programming languages and soft-skills

Masters of Education

July 2005

Loyola University Maryland

BFA in Professional Photography

January 1998

Columbia College Chicago

Graduated with honors