Brian Short
Web developer and award-winning content creator with a passion for the way the web connects and empowers people all over the world.
select skills: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, Node.js, MySQL, MVC, Express
Projects
Recipe App
Backend Developer
A web app that takes in a spare ingredient that you have around your house--pasta, for example, or wheat flour-- and returns multiple recipes, which can be saved. The project incorporated JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Handlebars, Sequelize, and Express, as well as MVC. Built the models and controller for the MVC as well as the Express server.
Media Recommender App
API and JavaScript Programmer
A web app that allows user to search a topic for movies, books, or songs to consume during quarantine. The project involved JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, and multiple APIs as well as dynamically built HTML. Built, debugged, and refactored multiple API calls and developed and executed the suggestions frontend app and javascript.
Employee Database App
Solo Project
An app that takes input from the command line to create, read, update, and delete entries in a an employee database. A solo programming project including foreign keys and joins, SQL and MySQL as well as Node.js.
Education
Michigan State University
Web Developer Bootcamp Certificate
September 2020 - March 2021
University of Michigan
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Avery Hopwood Award in Graduate Fiction
Civitas Fellowship for Teaching in Detroit Public Schools
Postgraduate Fellowship
August 2007 - May 2010
Pennsylvania State University
Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies
August 2007 - May 2010
Interests
I have a passion for the power of the web—the way that it connects and empowers people all over the world. As a writer and editor with 20 years of experience, I'm passionate about understanding people, sharing knowledge, and the ways the web helps people engage brands, ideas, and each other.
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking with my family and watching pretty much any movie. I lived in Mizusawa in northern Japan for three years, where I played taiko drums with a local group, tried waterfall meditation, and plunked 100-yen coins into UFO Catchers at the local arcade.
I'm an avid reader, with a nightstand full of books. The last book I read that I'd recommend was Caging Skies by Christine Leunens.