Hi, my name is Dan Fletcher and I am 25 years old, married to a beautiful wife, and have a 2 year old son. I love them both very much, and they mean the world to me!

Currently I am a Computer Science student at University of the People, the first accredited tuition-free online university, and I’m very proud to be a part of it.

My most recent endeavor is being mentored by a freelance web developer in the hopes that I’ll get myself into a position where I can pay my bills developing web-sites while in school.

I have experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and Jquery although my experience as of yet is non-professional. I’m currently learning NodeJS and angularJS in an effort to develop on the MEAN stack professionally.

Edit: Thanks to the help of said mentor, I landed a contract position at Khan Academy where I work as a consultant for the computer programming section. Primarily I use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Biography.

Born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, I somehow ended up climbing the social ladder in a less conventional way than most. I started working full time jobs at 16, living on my own at 17, then got married and had a son at 22. And now I’m trying to go to school. I’ve worked hard enough, and long enough trying to value hands on skills and self learned education, rather than sinking myself into dept for a higher education (which now days, does not guarantee a good job). But now that I’m older, more experienced and have gained new perspectives, I am trying to work my way into a higher education while still pursuing my own studies and endeavors.

My pass times have included things like dragon-boating, soccer, martial arts, and paintball. I’ve worked jobs as a dishwasher, landscaper, cleaner, labourer, machinist, cashier, burger flipper, and street busker. I’ve programmed CNC lathes, mills, and surface grinders. I’ve driven fork lifts, excavators, commercial lawnmowers and dump-trailers. I learned how to do high voltage terminations inside of wind turbines, transformers, and switch-gears, and have worked on solar farms where I helped build electrical substations from the ground up.

All of this… and I still play Pokemon.

All though it may not be my absolute favourite pass time anymore, and I don’t really have enough time to play through these gems like I did as a kid, I still feel like it says a lot about who I am in just a few words. I’m still a kid. Just a big imaginative kid with a lot of big responsibilities! That kid is also a little bit nerdy.

I’ve made money doing many many things, but I long to make money as a professional game programmer. Or really any solid career that is closely related to working with and programming computers such as web development or software engineering. But making games is what the 8 year old kid playing Pokemon yellow under his covers with a flashlight – waaaay past his bedtime – would probably tell me to do!