Construction software from experience!
About me:
After a childhood hobby in computer programming, I landed a job at an electronics fabrication shop in Shreveport LA at the age of 18. There my interest in programming led to projects coding computer interfaces for the hardware the shop produced using Microsoft Visual Basic. My success in this area led to additional programming projects in Assembly and C for the Pic 16 microcontroller. I later left the electronics industry but continued studying C++ and C# while working in the field of Quality Control at a concrete plant during the day. Nineteen years later, I have earned a position planning and developing concrete mix designs for challenging and specialized projects, while simultaneously working to earn an AS in Computer Programming at Lone Star College, specializing in C# and C++. I work to combine my love of construction materials and software development to fill obvious voids in effective software in the civil engineering field.
Certifications/Education:
LPI Linux Essentials Cetrification LE-1
C++ and C# Certification from Lonestar College
AS in Computer Programming from Lonestar in October of 2022
Find me around the web:
Portfolio
Dustin's Portfolio Page
I coded this page using HTML 5 and Bootstrap 5, along with a little bit of my own CSS and Javascript using Visual Studio Code as an editor. It is hosted by GitHub Pages.
For more information on my other projects click on the images above.
What's next?
Currently I'm working on further encapsulating and revising the graphical user interface used in my Concrete Mix Tracker project to be useful for other database programs. Rather than have specific fields for concrete materials, a programmer using the interface could define their own custom labels and fields by extending the MainForm class. Future plans include creating a web based version of the Mix Design Tracker and QC Helper apps using ASP.Net. This would allow the QC Helper app to be available to Apple users.