Marcellus Barrus
Full-Stack Developer/Designer
Intro
What I am all about.
I've been doing web development since 1995. It's been a blessing and a curse. These past 20+ years have been full of sleepless nights, nightmares of undefined variables, alerts at 2am saying the server is unresponsive. I wouldn't have it any other way. I thrive on having root access.
Other than my wife, I have two best friends. Google and Amazon Echo. Google seems to know everything and because we are such good friends, I know everything as well...at least everything I need to know. Amazon Echo is there to keep me company and knows how to deliver the tunes.
My First Rule of Programming: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Expertise
Luke Skywalker would be jealous.
01
Advanced CSS
I love strapping on CSS to nakedness, it's breathtaking, even in the moonlight. It reminds me of being indecisive about clothing, what to wear, what not to wear, who cares, wear whatever you want till it just feels right! CSS.. working hand in hand with HTML for over a decade, and loving it. Creating foundations that exist over all frameworks, dynamic, intuitive, crossing all barriers and platforms... it speaks for itself and well without it, who knows where we'd be.
02
Front-end Design
I'm not the best at creating things from scratch. I have the mentality of not wanting to reproduce the wheel. So, give me an example and I'll make it better.
03
Object-oriented PHP
This is where I excel. I'm fast and I'm good. Enough said.
04
Laravel
I'm an artisan. I like good looking code. I've tried multiple frameworks (Yii2, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Zend Framework. I even built my own.). I always come back to Laravel.
05
NodeJS - MEAN Stack
I'm not necessarily a fan of AngularJS or the MEAN Stack in general. But, I can get things done.
06
JavaScript / jQuery
I can't live without jQuery. Quite frankly, why would anybody want to? It's sexy and because I use it, I'm sexy too.
07
MySQL
Inners, Outers, Pivots, and even Unions are my speciality. I'm a fan. But please, keep it simple. There is no reason to have a million joins just because you don't know how to design a database correctly. Simplicity is key.
08
Apache Web Server or Nginx
Building frontends or backends doesn't do any good without a way to serve them up to the world. I prefer the Apache Web Server over Nginx because I know more about what makes it work and what breaks it.
09
MongoDB
NoSQL, all JavaScript. Been working with MongoDB for the past two years and still haven't even touched the surface.
10
Amazon Web Services
Talk about taking the effort out of server administration. EC2, RDS, ElasticBeanstalk, Security Groups. Twenty years ago this was unheard of. Now, we have services in the cloud that make it so I don't have to worry about a hard drive going bad.
Skills
I got them.
80%
Photoshop
90%
Microsoft Office
98%
Git - Command Line or Source Tree
100%
Drinking the M-Dew
98%
PHPStorm or VS Code
98%
VI
100%
Eating the PIZZA
50%
CSS3 Animation
Experience
Yes. I've been around.
But, I'm not easy.
But, I'm not easy.
2005 – Present
Renters Legal Liability
Lead Developer
Salt Lake City, UT
Built and continue to build patent pending technologies.
2004 – 2005
Knightsbridge
Developer
South Jordan, UT
Played around mainly with Visual Basic before the .Net came around. Never again.
2001 – 2004
Elixir Labs, Inc.
Lead Developer
American Fork, UT
Built an online marketplace for small business to get online quick and easy.
1999 – 2001
Integrated Business Solutions
Sales Engineer
Salt Lake City, UT
Designed and built enterprise IT infrastructure.
Education
Lazy isn't in my vocabulary.
Efficiency is.
Efficiency is.
2011 – 2014
Salt Lake Community College
Emphasis on Computer Science
Salt Lake City, UT
Dropout. I tried again thinking that this time it would be different. When I ended up teaching the classes, I realized that I was just wasting my time and money.
1995 – 2996
Utah Valley State College
Emphasis on Computer Science
Orem, UT
Dropout. Knowing more than my instructors was difficult. Actually, not really, web technologies have come easy for me. Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble.