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As a fledgling web developer, I loathed having to use CSS, usually copying and pasting layouts, snippets, and using frameworks to create my components for me. I noticed that others in my department were having the same struggles and set out to learn, then share, how to write effective CSS. This presentation was the culmination of that effort, and has reshaped how many in my department view writing their own CSS. Originally written in basic HTML and CSS, the slides are not very portable, but offer examples of effective CSS in the codebase. Presenting a CSS mechanic and then showing how it can be used in the inspector tools was a fun, hard to maintain, method to present.

Given to various groups at Optum before our peer feedback rounds. This presentation guides feedback givers to a well-crafted message to ensure proper communication of areas for improvement. Feedback receivers are given tips on staying constructive, guiding self-reflection, and how to encourage others to give feedback more often. A main theme throughout the presentation is that feedback is gift worth giving, getting, and working together to properly share.

Given to my department in coordination with a larger push for developing reusable resources, this presentation fills a knowledge gap of setting up, developing, and publishing NPM packages designed for react applications. A combination of NPM package mechanics and design paradigms for creating maintainable and highly configurable libraries, this presentation helped my department increase code reusability. Alongside this presenation, I developed an internal react hooks library based off of a template repository that would enable other developers to start on their library ideas without having to learn the intracacies of build tools.

Targeted for web developers with 1-3 years of experience in another framework, this presentation highlights the basic tools provided by Node.js and the Express framework. It covers the basic mechanics of route management, middleware, the request and response objects. Compares functional endpoint organization with object oriented practices, using typescript over javascript, and examples from enterprise backend services I have built.