About

James Canavan is a Software Developer with expertise in JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, SASS, and CSS. He has experience working with NodeJS, Angular2+, Express, SQL, and NoSQL. James has also worked with tools like WordPress, Joomla!, Visual Studio Code, Dreamweaver, Adobe Suite, PHPBB3, Linux, Windows, MySQL, Access, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and JSON. Currently, James is an Internet Programming & FullStack Instructor at Collin College, where he teaches full-stack courses to professionals in the field. He is responsible for researching new topics for courses and keeping current with JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries spin-offs. He is also teaching courses like Python, HTML 5, Introduction to JavaScript, CSS 3, Advanced JavaScript - jQuery, NodeJS Basics, NodeJS Advanced, and AngularJS Survey course in Angular I, II, IV, VI, & IX, among others. In addition to teaching, James is a web tinkerer and enjoys meeting other programmers and designers to learn new languages and technologies. He has taught courses like XML Programming, Ruby On Rails Programming, DHTML Programming, Joomla! Web Design, Building an E-commerce Web Site, ActionScript 2 (Flash) Programming, Perl Programming, Unix OS Operation, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft VISIO, and Introduction to Programming. James has worked as a Designer/Owner/Programmer at donotenter.com, where he was the original owner of the domain. He also worked as a Computer Science Professor at Le Cordon Bleu _ North America, where he taught their required Computer Science course. James holds a Master's degree in Computer and Information Sciences from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services from SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and an Associate Degree of Computer Science from Tompkins Cortland Community College. He also has certifications in NT, TCP/IP, Access Certificates from Microsoft Training and Certified in routers from Cisco College. James is proficient in technologies like JavaScript, Software Engineering, Web Development, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, NodeJS, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Senior Software Engineering, and AngularJS.