About Me

Daniel "Joji" Koons is currently working in the digital game industry in the area of software quality assurance as a Test Associate III with the game testing solutions company Experis Game Solutions. Through this experience, he has gained a significant amount of knowledge of game and software development with a distinct understanding of the SaaS product lifecycle. Joji has continued his education by earning a certificate in Full Stack Engineering for web application development through the University of Arizona and Trilogy Education Services. He plans to pursue opportunities in commercial software development and management.

Joji graduated from Arizona State University earning a Bachelor of Arts in the major of Digital Culture with a focus on media processing and software engineering. His coursework mainly focused on programming in a variety of languages such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and topics such as iOS development, web development, game design, and graphic design. He is also very knowledgeable of Adobe products such as Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects, as well as game development engines such as GameMaker, Unity, and Unreal. His creative projects include digital game development, photography, videography, and writing music.

Work

Project-SFW

Project-SFW is a web-app, customizable education platform that can be tailored to any line of business. It uses self-designed lessons to help train employees, as well as quizzes based on the information they are being taught. The site also has reporting features to track employees progress and results, which can be visualized in a nice and simple manner.

Technologies used: MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React.js, Node.js), Passport, Axios requests, react-chartjs-2, hosted on Heroku

Rate Your Employee

Rate Your Employee is a web-app tool designed for large corporations, or multiple companies, to easily navigate and grade their employee's performance. Inspired by Rate My Professor, Rate Your Employee allows team leads and managers to add employees to their company's database, and grade their skills based off a five-star rating.

Technologies used: MEHN Stack (MySQL, Express, Handlebars.js, Node.js), GSAP Framework, hosted on Heroku

LIFT.IT

LIFT.IT is a web-app designed to help track your workouts and maximize your efficiency inside the gym. LIFT.IT provides the user with mutliple exercises of different muscle groups, allows the user to set a time limit on each exercise, and provides the user with motivation to live a more healthy lifestyle!

Technologies used: HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, Wger API, Chart.js

Seinfeld Character-Finder

The Seinfeld Character Finder is a survey that compares your answers to the answers that the characters of Seinfeld submitted! After you have submitted your answers, you will then be added to the site's API for comparisons! Using HTML and CSS for design, Node and Express for server creating, and Heroku for hosting, this web app is simple for the user, but was a bit challenging in development.

Technologies used: HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, Express. Node.js, Heroku

GIFTastic

GIFTastic is a website that allows users to click one of the pre-made buttons, under the subject of sitcoms, to display multiple gifs and their ratings pulled from the GIPHY API. Users can also add their own sitcoms, or really any subject, to display the same information.

Technologies used: HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, GIPHY API, AJAX

Harry Potter Trivia Game

Trivia Game, Harry Potter edition, is a web-app game designed to test your knowledge of the world of Harry Potter! Designed simply with jQuery and JavaScript, the game populates each page with a question for you to answer. However, you only have a few seconds to answer since each question is timed!

Technologies used: HTML, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS

Contact

Email: jojikoons@gmail.com

Phone: 480.710.9195

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