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SUMMARY
I am a highly motivated, quality-focused web developer looking for a permanent software engineering role. I am a current full-stack
developer at a start-up in San Mateo developing a B2B social application. Prior to that I was a UI Engineer for a startup in the Bay Area
designing the application’s UI from scratch. I have professional level expertise in JavaScript, Backbone, LESS/CSS, Version Control/Git,
MySQL and PHP among many other technologies and frameworks. I am a Cum Laude graduate of Rice University and have 2.5 years of
experience in Quality Assurance working on a data warehouse application, as well as 1000+ hours of development experience at an
immersive coding boot-camp in San Jose. My goal is to write modular, scalable, and industry-standard code for a dynamic company where I
can use my creativity to solve challenging problems.
PROFESSIONALLY DEVELOPED SKILLS
Front End Development
Experience developing Single Page Applications (SPAs)
Experience designing a startup’s UI from scratch
Cross Browser development
HTML5, CSS3, LESS, JQuery, Handlebars, Backbone.JS,
Require.JS
AJAX calls to external and self created APIs, using promises
(Q library) and JQuery
Proficiency with Materialize and Bootstrap libraries
Developed HTML emails for marketing campaigns
PHP
Experience with SLIM MVC and CodeIgniter frameworks
Experience integrating front and back-ends using
RESTFUL routes for a successful user experience
Developed full stack personal projects using LAMP stack
(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
SQL
Over 2.5 years of experience with Microsoft SQL Server
2008 + 2012 and a year of experience with MySQL
Substantial knowledge of querying, editing, writing scripts
and managing databases
Version Control
Experience with Git using Github and Bitbucket
Experience with code review processes using pull requests
Experience developing in different branches (using local
and remote personal branches)
General Skills
Involved in all stages of the development process:
Development, code review, testing, deployment,
writing documentation
Developing on Unix/Linux server
REGEX for string parsing
Agile development
PERSONALLY DEVELOPED SKILLS
MEAN
Implemented Express framework for Node.js with sockets
for real time applications
Angular.js framework experience
Wrote projects with modularized code from scratch
Wrote and managed NoSQL database through MongoDB
Certified by boot camp in MEAN stack
Ruby on Rails
Experience with Rails, Frank, Sinatra and use of a variety of
gems
Certified by boot camp in Rails
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Ninja Tournament: Deployment, Github
Created with a Rails back-end, Ember front-end as part
of a team of two
Created an app to handle a single elimination
tournament, handling ratings, seeds, byes, and also
supports undoing moves
I developed the back-end (which was essentially an API
for the Ember front-end)
Chat room: Deployment, Github
Made with Express and Node; I developed all of it
Shows how sockets can create a real-time application
Sick Lists: Deployment, Github
Written in Full MEAN as part of a team of two; I
developed the back-end
Shows the most popular playlists for each genre. Users
can “like” playlists to save them in their profile.
Leaderboards show top players
Pacman: Deployment, Github
Made with pure JavaScript; I developed the whole
project
Includes ghosts, cheat-codes, cherries among other
features
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Periodic Table: Deployment, Github
Made with CSS + JavaScript; I developed all of it
An example of how JavaScript and CSS can be
interwoven
User Dashboard: Deployment, Github
Written in LAMP; I developed it from start to finish
The app handles user management and lets users post
messages and comments on other user’s walls
EXPERIENCE
Balluun Foster City, CA
Software Engineer December 2015 – Present
Integral member of development team of 12 engineers building a B2B ordering and social site for a series-A funded company
Developed interactive pop-ups, multi-step modals, hover-over effects, conversion scripts and API end points along with bug fixes
Training/experience in JavaScript/JQuery, Backbone.JS, Require.JS, Grunt, Handlebars.JS, LESS, Q library (for promises), PHP,
SLIM MVC framework, MySQL, Bitbucket pull-request system, Git, and Unix
Started on a 3 month contract, had it extended for meeting and exceeding expectations
Think In Blue Remote Position
UI Engineer September 2015 – November 2015
Successfully implemented forum functionality and review functionality of user’s employers and integrated it with back-end within a
month. Worked successfully with QA to get pages ready for production
Developed static pages for users’ and group’s profiles, private messages and all-friends page
Second UI Engineer to join team and design website’s interface which has gotten many compliments from the executive board
Project went on hold due to funding
Epic Systems Verona, WI
Software Tester/Quality Assurance July 2012 – January 2015
Responsible for getting up to speed and testing functionality for a widely-used data warehouse for hospitals (and sharing that
knowledge with teammates)
Selected for inaugural QA team for Epic's Cogito data warehouse before product was released; application became top-rated HIMSS
application within 2 years of being released
Extensive experience reviewing and optimizing designs and wireframes
Became most tenured full-time QA member of data warehouse testing team by March 2013
Responsible for work assignments for the team and development log triage
Worked extensively with T-SQL for queries and scripts
Wrote over 250 issue notes in one year
Served as a mentor to two new employees and taught a variety of training classes
Started and chaired a group in the Reporting section of Epic identifying process improvements in the section
Responsible for reportable issue note investigation (investigated which issues in the software needed to be reported to all customers)
EDUCATION
Coding Dojo – Web Development Boot Camp San Jose, CA
Double Black-Belt Graduate (Certified in all available stacks) May 2015-August 2015
12 week on-site immersive coding boot camp in most popular technologies; 1000+ hours of coding
Completed 3 full stacks: LAMP, MEAN, Ruby on Rails along with front-end development
Rice University Houston, TX
Bachelor of Arts – Major: Political Science, Minor: Business Class of 2012
GPA: 3.81, Cum Laude
President’s Honor Roll
President of Chess Club
Clear Lake High School Houston, TX
Class Rank: 1 out of 806 Class of 2008
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
52 hours of college-level Spanish classes completed, four years of high school Spanish classes, Spanish immersion program in Argentina;
Semester abroad in Chile, extensive Spanish language writing and conversation. Multiple personal trips to Spanish-speaking countries.