My Portfolio
Blogs and Small Business Sites
For Calgary entrepreneurs and local businesses aiming for a strong online presence, choosing the right foundation for your website or application is key. While various platforms exist, such as Drupal or Wordpress, modern full-stack solutions, like blending PHP and the MERN stack, are increasingly recognized for their superior performance, scalability, and efficiency. This blend often leads to more environmentally conscious websites as well, which works to everyone's advantage. So, whether you're building a community blog, or a local e-commerce platform, with robust features like user accounts and scheduled deliveries, the underlying technology you choose for your website or application significantly impacts your project's long-term success.
As a Calgary-based software developer, I focus on building scalable web solutions using powerful and efficient technologies like PHP and the MERN stack. These tools allow for a tailored web development experience, ensuring that your website or application not only looks great, but also performs optimally and scales seamlessly as your business grows. Let's explore how leveraging a modern, efficient technology stack can provide your Calgary business with a competitive edge and a sustainable, online presence.
Industrial and Commercial Sites
Established Calgary industrial and commercial powerhouses, including leaders in manufacturing and the oil and gas sector, face the critical need for a sophisticated online presence to manage their operations. These enterprises demand extensive, interconnected digital ecosystems, with robust databases and dashboards, which must be capable of handling everything from complex wholesale ordering and supply chains, to comprehensive product catalogs with real-time volume tracking. Project Muse specializes in architecting and building these high-performance platforms, ensuring seamless data flow and the capacity to manage thousands of daily interactions and vast data volumes.
To meet the demands of these high-stakes environments, Project Muse leverages robust and scalable technological solutions, prioritizing speed, reliability, and security. This includes powerful database systems, efficient server-side languages, and well-architected APIs. Furthermore, we integrate strong SEO strategies to maintain visibility in competitive, Alberta industries like energy and manufacturing, along with advanced data capturing and analysis tools to provide invaluable insights for optimizing your operations, and gaining a significant competitive edge.
Resumés and Curriculum Vitae
In the digital world, Project Muse's dynamic resumé websites break the two-page limit. Enjoy unlimited space for displaying your skills, experience, and personality, all while adding vibrant colors, a custom design, and a few, rich media sources to showcase your best self. Show your impact as a camp teacher with a video, or highlight your speaking skills with an audio clip of your favourite toastmaster's session. A digital resumé from Project Muse offers limitless opportunity for self-presentation.
A resumé website acts as your always-on, detailed, professional portfolio. Like a Curriculum Vitae, but with unrivaled detail. Project Muse's online resumés and Curriculum Vitae drastically cut job hunt time. Use concise documents or LinkedIn, then direct interest to your online showcase. This ends repetitive resumé tweaking, ensures consistent messaging, and gives employers a richer view of your qualifications beyond static documents.
Self-Publishing and Other sites
The Internet offers a simple solution for writers, photographers, academics, journalists, and other professionals who write and share media, bypassing the traditional hurdle of having to find a publisher or producer. You can self-publish! Imagine, your garage band's entire itinerary online, or some of life's momentous occasions, all tacfully displayed and right at your fingertips – weddings, presentations, prom night, those big games, even those accidental triumphs, caught on film – so family and friends can relive and share these stories as often as they like, with whomever they choose.
It's called family blogging, and it's on the rise. Why deal with complex social media algorithms to find your own resources if you're not aiming to go professional with social media? Instead, at your next gathering or casual hangout, easily access your family blog to share and relive great moments, without the stress of searching through endless feeds. It's a user-friendly way to connect with loved ones and enjoy shared memories together.
My Blog
Persistence throughout the Journey
There's a big difference between the skills required to cross a desert, and those required to climb a mountain. Many entrepreneurs do both, and some even learn to part water. The entrepreneur's journey is very similar to the hero's quest. There is a goal, and that goal must be reached against the ever-present possibility of total oblivion. But that goal is worth it, or else the journey would never happen...
Developing your Creative Self
Creativity is abundant throughout humanity, and is often indicative of a high intellect. Everyone is creative, yet many of us do not realize how creative we are, and then allow this thought to weigh down our self-perception even further. So how to stop this? One place to start looking would be to understand the importance of creativity to the self, and then work outwards from there...
The Grinder
It takes a certain mindset to not only understand that venturing out is a challenging endeavour, but to also appreciate that challenge as well. I wanted to explore the importance of entrepreneurship to the larger economy, but to do so from an individual's perspective. The Grinder looks at how capitalism not only benefits the indivdual, but enriches the community in which it serves as well...
The Economics of Truthiness
An expression around Christmas is that it's better to give than to receive, but did you know that this concept extends well beyond holiday Miracles, and is actually the basis of a powerful Economics concept as well? Come explore the nature of 'opportunity cost' in this article, and learn why rhetoric such as: 'shop local' or 'honest work, honest pay' makes such strong economic sense...
