Daniel Armstrong

About Me

Personal

I am a native of Nashville, Tennessee with a passion for tech, scuba diving and extreme sports. I also enjoy watching hockey doing just about any outdoor activity. I tend to be a Maximizer, hyper-focused on a project until it is adequately next level.

Tech

I am currently learning Python/Django at Nashville Software School. I have experience working on individual and group projects in JavaScript and React, styling with CSS and Github workflow. I am pleased to share my front-end capstone project titled Surface Interval which is a scuba diver's companion app, serving to organize and better prepare a scuba diver for dive trips. It serves as a dive log, dive planner, and a gear and cert card tracker.

Scuba

I fell in love with scuba diving in 2017 and continued to expand my skills and knowledge of the sport. I interned and worked as a dive professional, earning my Divemaster certification with Music City Scuba where I supervised and taught Open Water, Advanced and various specialty dive students. I have lead multiple Discover Scuba Diving programs and volunteer at Pennyroyal Scuba Center for the annual PADI Women's Dive Day. It's an absolute joy working with new Open Water Diver students and spending time with friends on dive trips local and abroad.

Endurance Sports

Endurance sports are a kind of micro trauma to the body and mind that I decide to opt-in to. Barring any accidents or pain that arise, I feel largely in control of myself and the situation. The misery of the event exposes one to repetition in adversity and grows a more resilient body and mind, whether the finish line is gained or not. I've enjoyed pushing my limits through a few challenging cycling events including a Half-Everesting, Mountains of Misery double-metric century, and Six Gap of North Georgia. If there is a mountain to be conquered, I'm there.

Projects

Surface Interval

Plan // Dive // Log // Repeat

Surface Interval is a scuba diver's companion app, serving to better prepare a diver for upcoming dive trips. Surface Interval allows the user to log dives, sort their dive log, create gear sets, export a checklist of gear to PDF, upload and view certification cards, upload dive photos and plan dives based on the PADI Recreational Dive Planner. Surface Interval was created as my front-end capstone project, utilizing ReactJS primarily. It solves the problem of divers being unprepared for the trip and dive conditions.

Live site: Surface Interval
Github: Surface Interval

Other Projects

Group and individual projects I worked on at Nashville Software school can be found on my Github.

github.com/DArmstrong87

Tech Stack

Contact

• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Youtube

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