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Thomas Ballard - Work Samples
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Simi Valley, California. Ome Back Story: Learning Computer Programming. As a child I dreamed of being an astronaut and landing on the moon. At thirteen the dream changed. What's in an investment? Conversant, Alliance Data (NYSE:ADS). We collaborated with our customers to design, build, and replace legacy CGI page-based web flows with a suite of scalable AJAX data-driven UI views described with JSON. We evaluated various commercial framework offerings, and ultimately integrated the things they "got ri...
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Thomas Ballard - Resume
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Simi Valley, California. Software Engineer UI/UX, Web Producer. I enjoy being challenged, innovating, and working to improve top-line growth. Highly self-motivated, capable, task oriented, hard-working, and committed to quality and accountability. Comfortable working as part of a team, tiger-team, or individually. Love learning and teaching. Personable and friendly, mildly funny. Customer focused. Results driven. Alliance Data / Conversant (NYSE: ADS). Sr Software Engineer May 2011 - Present. Field Servi...
hostagnostic.com
Free Puzzles Project
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Puzzles are a great way to test your knowledge, or simply pass the time. Here are some favorite hangman and jigsaw puzzles. Years ago I built a Hangman puzzle game engine using JavaScript, which has been fun to feed word lists. As I've studied specific technical areas of interest, I've enjoyed feeding themed glossaries to the engine and using it to "study". Really, it's fun. puzzles are awesome, .er, study devices. (Seriously, try it, you'll see what I mean.). Real Estate Study Glossary. Bible Study Cont...
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Interactive 100 Hundreds Table: Playable Math Exercises for Grade School Kids
http://www.ballard.ws/projects/100-hundreds-table-math-game/100-hundreds-table.htm
What is a hundreds table and why should I care? Consider a section of a number line. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22. Visualizing that number line as a table can help learners perform arithmetic more quickly by introducing a skip counting shortcut using the 10s column for example. Consider the equation: 12 27 =? Then right for ones. Subtraction works in reverse by moving up for tens. And left for ones. When you check the show tip box. The starting box is colored blue,...
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Learning "Times Table" - Interactive Multiplication Table
http://www.ballard.ws/projects/interactive-multiplication-table/times-table.htm
Learning Times Tables with an interactive Math Game". Learning "Times Table" - Interactive Multiplication Table. To start the game, press " S. Multiply the number at the top with the number of the left of the cell accepting input (the flashing cursor). Press tab to move out of the field. (Your answer will be quickly checked by the computer. If you are correct, the number will turn green, otherwise it will turn red.). Try to fill in all of the empty cells with the correct answer as quickly as you can.