“There are 360 degrees,
so why stick to one?”

Zaha Hadid

GREENLAWN CEMETERY

Created while I was the Web Producer for Mirror Indy, the Greenlawn Cemetery articles were some of my favorite. Written by data reporter, Emily Hopkins, the fires of accountability were lit underneath city officials, springing them into action.

Block Details:
Horizontal scrolling bar of accompanying vignettes
YouTube embeds within collapsible accordions
Audio embeds
Scrolling image gallery
GIF embeds

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IN PRIMARY ELECTION VOTING GUIDE, 2024

While I served as the Web Producer for Mirror Indy, I produced the Indiana primary election voting guide for 2024. Written by service reporter, Sophie Young, it is a compilation of plentiful, pertinent, and political information that can be difficult to assemble as a citizen.

Block Details:
Inline navigating anchor text
YouTube embeds
Third-party embeds within collapsible accordion
Collapsible FAQ’s accordion
Customized icons

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WES MONTGOMERY HISTORICAL MARKER

Created while I was the Web Producer for Mirror Indy, I was fortunate to produce a story based around jazz legend, Wes Montgomery, and how he received a historical marker on what would have been his 101st birthday.

Focused on accessibility, this story provides an embedded audio clip accompanied by the full audio script for those utilizing screen readers and other forms of assistive technology.

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VA BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY QUIZ

While I served as the Web Producer for Mirror Indy, I created a customized quiz for health reporter, Mary Claire Molloy. Lying within a collapsible accordion block, this hard-coded quiz needed to be created because there were no right or wrong answers. Individualized responses were created for each possible outcome.

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equinox

React Forum Equinox is a full-stack MERN application that was designed and built collaboratively, then sent to deploy through Heroku. The task was to create a single-page application with a MongoDB back end, a GraphQL API, and an Express.js and Node.js server with a React front end which would implement user authentication with JWT to build a user-focused platform.

GitHub Repository

Collaborators:
Jacqueline Martinez - Front End Researcher, Data Analyst and Presentation
Joshua Butts - Front End Developer Extraordinaire
Matthew Montiel - Project Management, Front End Developer
Lindsey Isaac - Front End Researcher, QC Analyst and Development
Vincent Richards - Back End Researcher and Development
Daniel Cohen - Back End Researcher and Development

daja-limavi

This is a music genre cross reference application to help the user discover music they will like. Select three genres and press load deck.
Utilized: Miro, GitHub, Visual Studio code, Wikipedia API

Deployed Application

Collaborators:
Jacqueline Martinez - Research and Presentation
Matthew Montiel - Framework
Lindsey Isaac - Research and README
Vincent Richards - Problem Solver
Daniel Cohen - Music Aficionado

Day Planner

A simple calendar application that allows a user to block-off hour-long increments.
Utilized: HTML, CSS, jQuery, Day.js library

Deployed Application

Creator:
Jacqueline Martinez

weather planner

Server-Side API Weather Dashboard used to call a city’s current or 5-Day forecast
Utilized: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Deployed Application

Creator:
Jacqueline Martinez

readme generator

A Generator for README's which collects user input via the terminal and in turn creates a markdown file.
Utilized: Node.js

GitHub Repository

Creator:
Jacqueline Martinez

on the shelf

An application that catalogues games which are saved into a personal database.
Utilized: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

GitHub Repository

Collaborators:
Jacqueline Martinez - Front End Presentation
Matthew Montiel - Front End Designer
Lindsey Isaac - Front End Researcher
Vincent Richards - Front End Project Manager
Daniel Cohen - Backend API Routes Navigator

employee tracker

This project is intended to mange and organize any company's employee database by creating a command-line application.
Utilized: MySQL, Node.js, and Inquirer

GitHub Repository

e-commerce Backend

This is a MySQL database and application built for an e-commerce website. It is primarily focused on routes and making changes to a MySQL database using POST, PUT, and DELETE requests
Utilized: MySQL2, Expressjs, Sequelize, Nodejs, Insomnia and dotenv

GitHub Repository