About Me
I live and work from home in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA for a local company,
WVNET.
My work involves advanced technical support of hosted
Ellucian Banner web software for business customers. Often,
this means
Oracle DB administration.
Banner is a complex enterprise resource planning (
ERP)
software, so all departments of WVNET are involved in its maintenance and support. There are integrations to
establish and maintain, some public presentations, and a lot of learning.
I'm an avid bash and PowerShell script writer and software developer. As an
engineer, I never stop learning. My favorite hobby is watching instructional Youtube videos to learn how to repair vehicle components, major appliances, and small electronic devices.
🎯 Currently, I am open to other opportunities offering more compensation, but I'm not actively seeking a new job. My family is growing, but we seem to be good at budgeting.
🌟 Please reach out to me at LinkedIn especially if you're interested in what I have to offer.
Projects
All of these projects are for learning and fun. It is my nature to engineer things, and I do my best to follow
best practices.
- vidadelafuerza.com: This website is in "vanilla" HTML and CSS. It is designed and organized to be
accessible, easy to read, and compatible with mobile browsers. Feel free to (visit the source on Github). Following
are some special things about this site:
- Development environment is powered by PowerShell, NodeJS, Neovim, Visual Studio Code, and Windows
Terminal
- Testing with
lynx is via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Oracle Enterprise Linux 9
(OEL9 / RHEL9)
- The source is based on and forked from DigitalOcean's default "simple-html" template site
- SCSS is used to interpret the CSS, and both this "Projects" section and the "About" section (and any
further sections I might add) are based on "parts" and a number of background PowerShell jobs
- As of 2024 01 28, this is my favorite project, because I'm not running out of interesting things to
learn or try
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Obsidian notetaking: Special thanks to Dynalist for offering Obsidian! I use it for all of my notes. Those notes
are
CLI-searchable and also able to be manipulated with tools like
grep, awk, and
sed.
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Obsidian.md note-taking is pretty great 💖, especially if you like managing your notes in
Markdown.
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Visit Obsidian.md's site for more info.
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Obsidian Overlay project:
A project I've published is called "Overlay", and it takes @kepano's default Obsidian theme and
merely adds a few extra things (rather than being an entire, fresh Obsidian Theme). Check it out
on Github.
- Sidebar: My CV is exported to PDF with Obsidian using my custom Overlay theme and a
media-print.css
Snippet I created to make it print nicely. (CV available upon request. LinkedIn is the best way to
contact me.)
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Delafuerza Print OpenType font project: This text is in "Delafuerza
Print",
which I created with Calligraphr, Inkscape, and
a Wacom tablet. Here's how that worked:
- Calligraphr was used to
- a) download PDF templates to fill out with Inkscape, and
- b) upload those hand-written PDFs for Calligraphr to parse them into the
Delafuerza Print font.
- Inkscape was used with a Wacom writing tablet to fill in PDF templates for Calligraphr.
Social Media:
If you do read through my social media, please keep in mind that my spur of the moment thoughts might not necessarily reflect what I truly think. Every day is another opportunity to change and grow, and I'm a changing and growing kind of person.
Especially if it's a political opinion, keep in mind that such opinions do not directly or significantly impact how I operate as a professional. I divorce work from politics, and I feel all professionals who love working with professionals do the same.