Hi, I'm Patrick

A creative web app/cloud engineer, and marketer, with an interest in organic agriculture, communities, and comedy.

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• My Portfolio & Background
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Some of my Favorite Languages, Frameworks, and Tools:

Infrastructure (Cloud, Database, SystemAdmin, DevOps, etc.)

                                         

Server side

        

Client side

                    

Data Science

    

Toolset for Crafting

        

Resources for Learning

      

Customer Relationship Management Systems

    

Content Management Systems

    

Productivity Tools & Systems

      

My Career Progression

via MermaidJS diagram

  graph TD;
      subgraph one[Building initial Marketing experience via Campaign, Event, Web skills]
        A["`CoFounded ReEnergize Texas and created two year Communication Campaign, passing Green Funds legislation`"]-->D;

        B["`Event Marketing (Brand Ambassador promoting products at events for Ad Agencies)`"]-->D;

        C["`Self-study Web Design & Graphic Design`"]--> D["`Make web portfolio demonstrating Marketing skills (Digital, Traditional) helped me get first Digital Marketing roles`"]

      end

      D-->DD
      D-->BB
      D-->E

      subgraph firstMarketing[First Digital Marketing roles]
        DD["`Plastic-mart.com: Basic html & graphic editing`"]-->E
        BB["`Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Digital Marketing Consultant (Campaign Design, Web Portal Design)`"]-->E
        E["`SolarWinds: First job using Marketo CRM (for organizing Digital Marketing campaigns)`"]-->F
      end


      subgraph two[Moving from Digital Marketing to Web Development]
        F["`BridgeTower Media: Marketing Manager for two business journals`"]-->G
        G["`Continue to Self-study Full Stack Web Development Skills`"]-->I
        H["`CIS courses in Grad School resulting in Data Engineering Skills (Statistics MLR Project in R, Database Design)`"]-->I
        I["`PulseSecure: First Programming Job -- Marketing Data Integration with Marketo and LiveChat`"]
      end

      subgraph three[Sabbatical to build my own Full Stack App in order to demonstrate skillset]
        I-->J["`Designed & Built Full Stack App - NodeJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL on Linux + Nginx`"]
        J-->K["`Created new Portfolio website about skills and my Full Stack App`"]
      end

      subgraph four[Became Professional Full Stack Engineer]
        L["`Orbit Irrigation: Full Stack, using Clojure and ClojureScript`"]-->M["`Etumos: Full Stack + Cloud Infra, as Solutions Engineer, creating custom Marketo Integrations and Full Stack + Cloud Applications for clients`"]
      end

      subgraph five[Taking on DevOps and Technical Project Manager skills]
        N["`CDK Global: FullStack + Cloud Infra + DevOps + TPM.  Appointed to Technical Project Manager of a large migration project`"]
      end

      subgraph six[Next Career Move]
        O["`Sales Engineer?`"]
        P["`Go To Market SaaS Consultant?`"]
        Q["`Full Stack App Engineer?`"]
        R["`Cloud Infra/DevOps Engineer?`"]
        S["`Technical Project Manager?`"]
        T["`Product Manager?`"]
      end

      subgraph seven[Side Projects]
        W["`Certs in PMP, Kubernetes, Cloud?`"]
        X["`New Web Portfolio with blog + docs?`"]
        Y["`Build My Own Projects?`"]
      end

      E-->I
      E-->M
      K-->L
      four-->five
      five-->six
      five-->seven