Hello, my name is Russell Ramey...

I build things for the web

About me

Based out of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, I am a full stack developer working primarily in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL. I have been working as a developer for ten years with projects ranging from simple static one page landing pages, complete Wordpress custom theme & plugin development, to fully custom CRUD applications. I am currently working as a Principal Web Developer for Sabre, an innovative technology company that provides B2B software solutions for its customers in the travel industry.

Live At Magnolia

Magnolia / House of Sticks

Wordpress, PHP, JS

Property management marketing website for prospective residents to browse properties, amenities, and general information. This website was developed to be used as the main marketing tool for this property management company. All the properties the company manages are listed and maintained via a highly customized Wordpress backend.

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- Fully responsive for accessibility of all content on any device.
- Custom Wordpress theme, built with a specific use case tailored to the design of the site.
- Customized content types to handle and maintain property information/data.
- Utilizes a REST API to share property information with the corporate website.
- Dynamic forms built into the theme and are pre-populated with property information.
- Dynamic Google Maps API integration for property location and neighborhood information
- Custom Wordpress backend built into the theme to create an easy to use backend for the company to update and completely manage the site in house.
Magnolia Property Company

Magnolia / House of Sticks

Wordpress, PHP, JS

Property management company website for corporate and business related information. This website was developed alongside their customer facing LiveAtMagnolia.com to provide corporate and business related information about Magnolia Property Company.

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- Fully responsive for accessibility and use on any device.
- Consumes a RESTful API from LiveAtMagnolia.com for all of the property information, allowing all data to be controlled in one place and preventing having to double publish the same information.
- The RESTful API data is controlled via a custom plugin. Allowing data requested to be controlled from this site.
- Custom Wordpress backend built into the theme to create an easy to use backend for the company to update and completely manage the site in house.
- Javascript algorithms to calculate and combine various statistics about their property information.
- Custom Wordpress theme, built with a specific use case tailored to the design of the site.
Sabre Air Merchandising

Sabre Corporation

HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL

Web application showcasing available ancillaries for airline carriers within the Sabre marketplace. This application allows a travel agent to quickly search and filter thru the available airline ancillaries offered in Sabre products, a very useful travel agent tool.

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- Fully responsive for accessibility and use on any device.
- Custom backend using Single Sign On APIs to allow the owner of the application to update information as needed, using employee login credentials.
- Backend fetches query results from the database, constructs a JSON object, which is then returned to the front end.
- Multi dimensional search and filter functionality to allow the user to find information quickly and accurately.
- Export results as a CSV for offline access.
- One of the most viewed and widely used applications for the targeted customer base on the corporate website.
NAS Client

House of Sticks

Laravel, VueJS, Bootstrap

Web application for creative agency clients and vendors to access and share files stored on a network storage solution (NAS). This application allows admins to create users, and assign projects to those users. Users can then login, view and contribute to project assets. Users have custom dashboards showing the projects they are assigned to.

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- Fully responsive for accessibility and use on any device.
- Custom backend using Laravel, frontend using PHP and VueJS.
- Projects can have multiple users assigned for a Many-To-Many relationship.
- Separate Admin and User models and authentication, allowing admins to control every aspect of the application, including granting permissions to users.
- Admin dashboard allows admins to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) all data contained in the application. Users are allowed to read, and update.
Marie & Russell

Personal

Bootstrap, JS, PHP, MySQL

Couples wedding website primarily for general event and ceremony information and to accept rsvps and comments. Post ceremony, this website also contains a stand alone gallery web app containing the full selection of photos taken during this wonderful occasion. The gallery can also be shared via a custom 'send to a friend' feature via email.

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- Design and full development.
- Fully responsive for both the ceremony website and gallery web app.
- Custom image favoriting system with PHP, JS/Ajax, and MySQL.
- Custom jQuery modal/lightbox filled with dynamic content from the DOM.
- Interactive map, using Google Map API, showing important locations for the event with custom location icons.
- Facebook, Twitter, and Email sharing.

Quick Projects

Below are some of my current open source projects. These are all hosted on my GitHub and are free to use. I created these simple projects to allow myself to build larger projects faster.

Substrate

Basic starter theme for the developer in mind. Use this theme as a basis to build your custom wordpress site upon.
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Quicktips

Lightweight JS function to dynamically add tooltips to html elements. No dependencies required. Very simple way to add tooltip labels to your application.
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WP Content Modules

Wordpress plugin that allows you to build pages modularly. Create simple, repeateable, blocks of content that can be used anywhere with the generated [module] shortcode.
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WP Public Previews

Wordpress plugin to enable non logged in users to view posts or pages in draft status with a unqiue url and access token.
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Microsoft Graph OAuth

Microsoft Graph OAuth example script using PHP using no dependencies or frameworks and saves auth response in a cookie.
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Simple Countdown

Countdown timer with vanilla javascirpt requiring no dependencies.
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Technologies

Below are some of the most popular - and essential - web technologies I utilize to create the websites & apps that I build. I have adopted these as my “go to” technologies for building things on the web. I am fluent and proficient in all the languages, frameworks, version control, and software listed below.