Howdy Partner!
This is the home web page of Joeseph P. Smith, currently a general purpose programmer, data analyst/cruncher, and web developer under the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER) at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA-GLERL).
My interests are frankly unbound.
As a programmer, I use my best judgment at the time of development
to produce modular products of value, the pieces of which can be easily and quickly
maintained and re-purposed for future work.
As a data analyst, I aim to take any desired data set, even search for
it, and parse meaning and value from it through programming and visualization.
As a web developer, and one that works for the general public, I
make a point of ensuring that whatever web products are produced
are accessible to the majority of users with modest skill sets.
Given these, the last, but certainly not least, interest in my
career, and life frankly, is community building. Whether at work
or play, we need cohesion within the groups of people that keep
society in order and the economy healthy. It's a requirement
of sustainability, a major theme of my career and life. No cohesion
means no shared resources, leading to an increase of consumption of
limited reserves on the planet. Thus I work to bring people together,
and if possible, keep them together, collaborating, and producing
great results.
This, of course, requires human and professional development,
which being in my mid-20s, is an evolving work in progress for me.
Thanks for reading. More information can be accessed in the menu
at the left.