Justin Hill

Software Developer & UI/UX Designer

Thriving Ripple

Thriving Traditions, Inc.

Thriving Ripple is a website aimed at changing and shaping future generations by helping individuals map out their living legacy. The web app is designed to help users easily tell their story, realize their ripple effect, and create traditions and rituals that matter the most.
Lead Developer | Database Design | UI/UX Design | Graphics | Testing

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Street Reach

Center for Applied Informatics

First version of a mobile application aimed at benefiting the homeless. The app allowed for homeless people to share their location to allow them easier access to receive outreach, and allowed others to share the location of homeless people they found to provide the same benefits. It also provided resources and directions to shelters for the homeless users.
Client-Requested Application | Android and iOS Programming | Design | Graphics

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TARC ZeroBus

Center for Applied Informatics

Mobile application for Louisville's zero emission, zero cost bus system. App logs locations of buses in real-time using Google Transit data and Google Maps. Map displays numerous attractions along and near bus routes and stops, and information about each attraction.
Client-Requested Application | Lead Developer | Android Programming | Design | Graphics

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Super Swipe

Personal Project

Android mobile game in which the user must swipe in the direction of an arrow shown on screen. Objective is to get as many correct swipes as possible before time runs out.
Original game concept | Programming | Design | Graphics

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Bubble Assassin

Personal Project

Android mobile game in which the user has to pop bubbles which appear on screen and grow at an increasing rate, losing a point for each bubble they miss until they run out of points.
Original game concept | Programming | Design | Graphics

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Experience

I've gained an array of knowledge from working professionally with three drastically different companies.

Car-Part.com (Software Developer) - One of three developers that design and develop new and existing features on our website and other software platforms. Go-to person for Java client installer development, Java client support software, HTML/CSS/JavaScript design questions, UI/UX design, SEO using SemRush and Google Analytics, QA Automation C++ Development in Ranorex, among other things.
Thriving Traditions, Inc. (Freelance Developer/Designer) - Led design and development effort for new startup, creating an online service which stores the user's memories and traditions in order to share this info with the user's families, managing the integration of QuickBooks payment processing services, and developing secure solutions for storing user's sensitive information.
Convergys (Programmer Intern) - Added web development experience to my skill set working on a corporation's website and CMS, worked on a small team using BitBucket to modify one code base and deliver requirements each release
Center for Applied Informatics (Mobile Applications Developer) - Learned aspects of programming for Android-based mobile applications, worked in teams to complete large-scale projects for big-name companies

Education

I've extremely proud of the education I've received from both college and high school.

Northern Kentucky University - 3.673 GPA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts in Media Informatics
University Honors Scholar
Bracken County High School - 4.27 GPA
Graduated Top Male in my class (#4 overall)

Programming Skills

I've worked towards becoming a full-stack developer first, and a designer second. Here's my programming skill set:

Java
Tomcat
PHP
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Ajax

jQuery
jQueryUI
Delphi/Pascal
Android
iOS
C
C++

NSIS
WinBatch
Perl
Oracle
SQL
MySQL
SQLite

Design Skills

I wouldn't consider myself an artist, but I do know how to work with graphic design tools to create mock-ups for projects or features I'm designing. I'm also fairly skilled in video editing.

UI/UX
Illustrator
Photoshop
Video Editing