Summary
Roy Norton is a software engineer with 25 years of experience in the military defense sector and a fresh focus on transitioning to full-time web development. He brings deep systems-level expertise in Ada, C, and C++ alongside modern web stacks (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node/Express, Handlebars) reinforced by a Full Stack Web Development certification. Roy has owned end-to-end product lifecycles—requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, training—and has hands-on hardware integration experience on VXI/VME/PXI and real-time VxWorks environments. His background developing missile simulation and diagnostic software at Raytheon reflects a disciplined approach to safety-critical, testable code and customer-facing delivery. Based in Tucson with an engineering degree in aerospace, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with practical training and support experience for domestic and international users. Notably, he combines legacy embedded systems knowledge with modern web tooling, making him well-suited to bridge backend systems and user-facing applications.
8 years of coding experience
The University of Arizona