Hey, my name's Russ! Welcome to my website! Telling stories is what I do best, and I love to tell them through web design, through writing, and through film.
A native of Tutwiler, Mississippi, I'm a graduate of Delta State University, with a Bachelor of Arts in English. I'm also a film junkie and an avid gamer.
With professional experience in customer service and sales, I understand the need for empathy, communication, and needs-based resolutions. I bring the same focus to the table as a full-stack Software Developer.
I love the creative expression I find in coding, whether in back-end logic or front-end UX/UI.
This is my dice roller. Written in Python, it's designed to emulate rolling dice in tabletop roleplaying settings, with additional versatility (for instance, you can roll dice that don't exist, such as a 13-sided die).
The user chooses how many dice they would like to roll, and how many sides per die. The program rolls the dice and returns each die's result, as well as the total.
It was designed to also be integrated into larger programs, such as a character creator or a digital character sheet.
Here is another Python project, called "Event Registration," which I and a couple classmates did at BCCA. It allows the user to register and authenticate with a username and password.
From there, the user can create or register for an event; read a list of all available events, or just the ones they've signed up for; update an event (date, time, location, etc.); or delete an event.
I was project manager for this project that I and a handful of classmates did at BCCA. It's a racing simulator that allows the user to bet fake money on drag races.
The site was built using React. It calls an API to retrieve user information, including a persistent wallet amount. Once registered and logged in, the user selects two racers, which of those racers they will bet on, and how much "money" they'd like to bet.