About Me

I'm Ramone Burrell and this is my online resume and portfolio site. I also use it to blog about topics that are interesting or important to me.

I discovered my love for programming when I was first introduced to Information Technology in high school. My first project was called Hotel Astra, which was a reservation manager written in C for a hypothetical hotel of the same name. I loved it. I can recall how happy I was to see the lines of code that I was writing and building doing what I had intended them to do.

Shortly after leaving deCarteret College high school in 2009, I began pursuing a career in computer programming at Seneca Polytechnic, Seneca @York, where I spent over three years in a Computer Programming & Analysis program. I loved my time during college as it was a time when I was learning new ideas and knowledge and discovering my strengths and weaknesses.

Now, having a strong background in web development, my objective is to expand my knowledge into other areas of technology to advance my career and launch a new online platform for the private transportation / livery service industry.

I love to read and cook and my focuses are family, my career and being of help to others wherever and whenever I can.

I also love to read and learn about new ideas. My favourite topics are spirituality, Information Technology, Philosophy and Self Improvement.

I was born with an intrinsic need to always want to know. I am not comfortable nor content with not knowing. If there is a cause for an issue, and I don't know the cause, I will research the issue for months or even years while experimenting with different possible solutions until I find one that works. This intrinsic need to know is what fuels my interest in the topics that I read on largely.

With spirituality, I want to know, understand and even experience to true nature of what we are and what everything in this existence is and is made of. Quantum dynamics has shown that what we call matter doesn't exist. At a quantum level, everything is energy, and photons and "matter" like electrons can behave as a wave or particle depending on whether or not they are being observed. The implications of these two scientific ideas could be life-changing for one who is spiritually inclined.

I was born with an analytical mind so it's no surprise that I would be deeply interested in science and Information Technology. Information Technology gives me the ability to solve problems for myself and others and understand things in ways that would have never been possible or would have been extremely time-consuming and difficult. Also, IT allows me be creative with my hands, being that I don't know how to create much with my hands. 😅

Being a born thinker, I have always liked to ask questions. I remember when I was very young I asked my mother, "Where do highways end?" This may seem like an odd question to an adult but as a child, it was a perfectly valid one. Now, as an adult, I want to know, where does our universe end and what is that extremity made of? If you were to stop and meditate on that question for but a short while, you would realize for a split second that something awakens in you, something that feels akin to a profound realization or epiphany. Maybe this is the Truth being revealed to us but not long enough for us to understand it.

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates. To me, this means that we all as humans have the personal responsibility to reflect on our lives and see where we can make improvements as well as examine to find if we are subscribing to things that bring value, meaning and purpose to our lives. For me, one aspect of this is the progression, expansion and advancement in my skills as someone who has a career in Information Technology. Another aspect of it is acknowledging my flaws, limitations and fears and actively working to improve them, hammering them out as a blacksmith would to transmute a rough slab of metal into a shiny, polished and well-crafted sword.

I think I went on quite a bit here, expressing some personal things about me and my thinking, maybe even too much. Who knows? Either way, now you know a little about me. Take a look at my blogs. This site has only been up since November of 2023 but I will have content on several different topics that I find interesting and thought-provoking. Hopefully you find them just the same.

Shalom!