I'm Stephen C. Sanders, and I am currently studying Geography & Geospatial Technology at Monroe Community College. Previously, I graduated from SUNY Brockport, where I majored in Philosophy and minored in Anthropology. I have a year of experience using ArcGIS Pro and half a year using QGIS. I have taken coursework in spatial analysis, remote sensing, cartography, physical geography, human geography, world regional geography, and Python programming.
I have four years of experience as a web developer, mainly using WordPress, HTML5/CSS3 (SCSS, Bootstrap), JavaScript, and Git. I have also worked as a website administrator for multiple client websites.
The main activity in which I partake outside of GIS and web development is genealogical research. I have been researching my family tree for around five years. I enjoy research involving New York State, veterans of the American Civil War, Gottschee, and Germany.
I am also an amateur philosopher (I have to put my philosophy degree to use somehow). I've written some neat stuff related to culture, society, and philosophical topics such as epistemology.
Explores food insecurity in the City of Buffalo based on each census tract's poverty level and walking distance proximity to a grocery or corner store. Includes a chloropleth map that showcases the relationship between the above variables. Used a color scheme generated by Paletton.com. Data obtained, analyzed, and displayed using QGIS, Google Sheets, Google Earth Pro, and Google Maps.
Investigates any vegetation changes between 1989 and 2019 around the Western Aral Sea that have occurred due to the shrinkage of the Aral Sea, and how past and present restoration projects may have influenced these changes since they began. Also displays the extent of the shrinkage that the Aral Sea has undergone. Uses Landsat data from GLOVIS. Data analyzed in ArcGIS Pro.
Determines potential sites for new public WiFi locations in the City of Rochester based on which census tracts are most in need. Considers percentage of households without internet access, proximity to a preexisting free WiFi location, and population density of school-aged people. Data analyzed in ArcGIS Pro.
Investigates if there is a correlation between homicide rate, median household income level, and the number of parks, playgrounds, and other publicly accessible areas within census tracts of the City of Rochester. Data analyzed using ArcGIS Pro and Google Sheets.
The Baesick WordPress theme is a responsive, customizable starter theme that is forked from wycks' WP Skeleton Theme. Originally only developed with support for the Skeleton CSS framework, I added support Bootstrap and completely overhauled the design to make it look more modern and stylish.
Willow Ridge Kennels of New York is a bernedoodle breeding and training business located in Rochester, New York. I designed and developed a WordPress website for them using the Baesick WordPress theme, which uses HTML/SCSS and Bootstrap. The site is hosted by BlueHost, and uses Google Analytics.
My old personal website was developed out of a desire not only to have a single place to put all of the information about me, but to practice designing and developing a website entirely on my own. The first full website that I ever developed. This website was built using HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, and JS/jQuery, and was hosted using GitHub Pages.
The website for the Buffalo Firefighters (Local 282) was developed by me in mid-to-late-2017 in collaboration with public relations firm e3communications, and is still used by them to this day as their main source of communication with each other and with matters that concern the general public. The website was built using WordPress and is hosted by GoDaddy.
To see websites that I developed (or worked on in general) for previous employers, you can look at the links under the relevant experiences on my LinkedIn profile.