Who am I?
Hello, my name is Chip DeWeese. Thank you for visiting my corner on the web. I am a Web consultant with over 25 years of IT experience. I have done work for multiple companies including JPMORGANCHASE, Mars, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and DuPont. I love working with the Jamstack. I have worked with React and Angular but Vue is my current preference.
I love woodworking, particularly woodturning. Having another outlet for expressing creativity helps keep me from being in the computer chair full time.
In December 2004 I was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer. I am a survivor. I like to participate in charitable events that raise money for cancer centered organizations. I have spoken about my experience at these events and I like to donate my woodworking for fundraising raffles. I had cancer, but cancer never had me! My scars are proof that I was stronger than cancer and I won.
My wife and I are currently looking to relocate back down to the Delaware area. If you know of an opportunity in that area I would love to hear from you!
This site?
I built this site using VuePress and Vuetify. The hero image at the top is from unsplash. I host the site on AWS Amplify. This makes it simple to rebuild/deploy without jumping through a lot of hoops. The content for this page is contained in a markdown file. Where needed items are put into variables and larger parts of the content are broken into named slots.
This allows for great flexibility. All of this is then stored in a GitHub repository. I can make changes preview them locally and then sync the repo. Once the repo gets updated it triggers AWS Amplify to rebuild.
Education:
Master of Science, Information Systems Technology - Web Design (3.94 GPA)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems
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Full-service web consultant. Design, develop, and implement web solutions. Fullstack Javascript web developer. Current technologies include Vue, VuePress, Nuxt, Strapi, Commercejs, Snipcart, and Vuetify.
Online tutor approved to assist with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Quickly assess the needs of the student in a fast-paced, high-pressure, time constraint environment. Some tasks include; explaining concepts, debugging code, providing advice, and providing working examples.
Project manager supporting the global fiduciary support services team. Create and execute training for up coming changes to applications. Provide project management and change manage support. Produce monthly scorecards. Customize internal SharePoint sites to support the business. Coordinate and lead through all phases of the Agile SDLC.
Oversaw the support for a portfolio of applications that included a mix of vendor hosted and customized in-house applications on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint, .NET and Lotus Notes. I would liaise with customers on a regular basis to identify application changes and enhancements and then manage the entire SDLC through the appropriate resources, i.e. off-shore development, on-shore development, vendor management, etc. I prepared regular scorecards to report on application performance and identified trends. Project manager for the first phase of a global initiative to implement document retention rules in Outlook. This was a complex 1.5 year initiative that was delivered on-time and established the framework for future phases.
I was on contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina as a Developer/Team Lead for a group of 4 developers and 2 business analysts. My team was responsible for 2 large Internet based, customer facing information sites. These sites had custom built Content Management System using Lotus Notes.
Worked on a wide range of projects. Initially brought in as Lotus Notes Expert, served as a tech lead and mentor to developers making the transition from legacy mainframe languages to Lotus Notes specializing in Web front ends. I expanded into Java based technologies, leading a replacement project of the companies internal Intranet homepage.
My career started on a helpdesk answering support calls. By the time I left CAI, I was a Certified Lotus Notes Developer. I was placed on various contracts as needed. Assignments ranged from as short as 2 days to over a year.