
  Location: Pittsburgh, PA

  Remote: Yes (not preferred; I miss having in-person co-workers)

  Willing to relocate: Nope

  Technologies: JS, php, Java, whatever C-ish or scripty language, I've fussed with it to some degree professionally.

  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mark-hawley-76a5983/

  Email: REDACTED_EMAIL

  Education: NYU Film &amp; Television graduate who got bored and fell back on a childhood of Vic-20s and C-64s.

I spent a lot of time in advertising during the rise of Flash ads, doing everything from making the "Punch-Out the Evil Kangaroo for a Free Digital Camera" ads (90+ billion impressions of that thing and its siblings during my brief tenure at that job) to being the Technical Director for a Johnson &amp; Johnson rebranding. I went on to work on ed tech projects for Houghton-Mifflin, full stack engineering/"lead design technologist" for Dow Jones, and real-time system engineering for local government. I jumped on the Node.JS bandwagon early.
I am usually the person called in to 'fix' outsourced projects that have gone haywire, or the one to make the judgement calls about where a project can scrape by with duct tape and angel kisses when there's no way to get something done without a heaping helping of technical debt. Nowadays I'd rather be on a team with some new-to-me tech and smarter coworkers to learn from.