Vintner
An accomplished Vintner and Viticulture consultant with almost a decade of experience in the field
Beginning in early 2020, I decided to teach myself programming as a means of transitioning into a different career path, and fell in love immediately. I began teaching myself via Codecademy and online tutorials, where I learned the fundamentals of web development.
After some time, I decided to enroll in General Assembly, a 600+ hour, 13 week coding bootcamp focused on Software Engineering. Here I learned about using modern frameworks like React, Django, and jQuery, backend frameworks like Express and React Router, and relational databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
Nowadays I code in my freetime, working on different side projects and doing freelance work.
For my capstone project at General Assembly, I built out a social-media platform for World of Warcraft players, with a ton of complex features and inter-related models. The app was built primarily using Express and MongoAtlas, and includes secure user authentication, a friend request-like functionality, managing large data sets, a complex point-distribution system, and full CRUD on several interconnected models.
FIs It Streaming is a site for searching movie titles and finding out which streaming services the title is streaming on. While it may not look like much, this was my first time building a web-app using Python, Django and PostgreSQL, and was able to do so in only 2 days of work. In that time, I was able to implement user authentication, dynamic filtering and rendering, full CRUD on several models, and entirely custom CSS styling, with plans to implement iMDB API functionality in the future.
This was a group project I worked on with 3 other individuals for a Full-Stack travel blog built using a React front-end and an Express API backend. It features full CRUD across 4 data models, and I was primarily responsible for building out the majority of the backend and the React components.
TThis was my first major project I worked on during General Assembly, where I was tasked with creating a Full-Stack web application using Express. The site that I built has login authentication, AWS S3 cloud-based image uploading, and was built to client specifications for style and layout.
In 2013, my family purchased a vineyard in order to grow 4 varieties of wine grapes, and since then, I have been working in the viticultural industry. While it was initially a summer job while I was home from university for the summers, I eventually transitioned into a full-time managerial position, where I head viticultural development and winemaking operations.
On our vineyard, we grow Barbera, Merlot, Viognier, and Zinfandel grapes, and make 4 different varietal wines and a Rose. We have over 800 vines that I train, thin, and spray for pests weekly along with a small crew of 1-3, and come harvest, we yield about 5 tonnes of grapes.
All of our wines are hand-pressed, barrel aged in French Oak for 2 years, and bottled/labeled in house.
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