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Technology & Education Entrepreneur, Developer

$15 USD / Hour

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Joined on April 8, 2019

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I've taught high school choir for twelve years. The coding started as a side thing and turned into two businesses I run. Honor Choir Academy ([login to view URL]) is a subscription site I built by myself, all of it. Node and Express, SQLite, Stripe running the billing and the seat packs schools buy, Google Classroom sign in so a teacher can pull their roster straight in, and pitch detection in the browser that listens to a student sing and scores them while they're singing. Five courses live on it. I wrote those too. Hawkins Woodshop ([login to view URL]) is my furniture store. Every storefront change and every word of product copy is mine, and when a plugin took the whole site down last year I'm the one who was on SSH at 1am renaming folders until it came back. I mention both because they're the reason I'm useful to you. In a two person business I've had to be the person who writes the checkout, fixes it when it breaks at midnight, answers the customer who's upset about it, and then explains what happened. None of that gets handed off. Things I take on: Python. I wrote the sheet music reader inside Honor Choir Academy, computer vision that takes a scanned choral score and pulls the notes off the page, and the scripts around it that clean up what it gets wrong. Automation, scraping, data cleanup, and wiring things up to other people's APIs. The Google Classroom integration on thatsite is mine too, OAuth and all. Websites and web apps, front and back. Node, Express, SQL, logins, Stripe subscriptions, connecting to other people's APIs. WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Elementor. Including the boring end of it, a plugin conflict or a checkout that quietly stopped working. Page speed and technical SEO. I'll send you the before and after numbers out of PageSpeed and GTmetrix. Excel and Google Sheets cleanup. I'll take out the duplicates and fix the formatting, and I'll put anything I'm not sure about on its own tab so you can review it, if that's okay. Writing that sounds like a person wrote it. About the price. I'm new on Freelancer and I'm bidding low because I want the reviews, not because the work is new to me. I've got a young family and I'm the one providing for them, so I don't miss deadlines. I'm in California and I answer messages fast, usually within the hour. I've got a young family and I'm the one providing for them, so I don't miss deadlines.

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Experience

Founder and Developer

Jun, 2026 - Present

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2 months, 16 days

Honor Choir Academy

Jun, 2026 - Present

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2 months, 16 days

Built and run honorchoiracademy.com, a subscription music education platform used in real classrooms. Real time pitch detection in the browser, interactive courses, teacher dashboards, Google Classroom integration, Stripe billing, sheet music digitization. Node.js, Express, SQL, vanilla JavaScript, Web Audio. Designed, coded, deployed, and operated end to end.

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Arbuckle, United States

Jun, 2026 - Present

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2 months, 16 days

Owner and Developer

Aug, 2019 - Present

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7 years

Hawkins Woodshop

Aug, 2019 - Present

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7 years

E-commerce furniture store at hawkins-woodshop.com. I run the whole operation: storefront build and customization, product catalog, buying guides, customer facing copy, order flow, and search optimization. Real user Core Web Vitals pass green and SEO scores 100 on PageSpeed because I keep it that way myself.

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Arbuckle, United States

Aug, 2019 - Present

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7 years

Director of Choirs

Aug, 2013 - Present

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13 years

Vacaville Unified School District

Aug, 2013 - Present

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13 years

Veteran music educator directing award winning choir programs at Will C. Wood High School and Vaca Pena Middle School. Ensembles earn unanimous superior ratings at state festivals and send students to regional and all state honor choirs every year. Built and ran a fully virtual program during COVID, developed the Mr. Hawkins iOS and Android student app, and manage all classroom, performance, and AV technology. A decade of deadlines met weekly in front of a live audience.

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Vacaville, United States

Aug, 2013 - Present

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13 years

Education

M.A., Educational Technology (Touro University, Vallejo CA)

2016 - 2017

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1 year

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United States

2016 - 2017

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1 year

Brigham Young University (Utah)

2007 - 2011

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4 years

B.A., Music Education

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United States

2007 - 2011

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4 years

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