About
I'm a web developer with a background in management, banking, and sociology. I have a passion for making data accessible and fun...
My Skills
Front-End
Back-End
Testing
General
... I have been actively pursuing a career change from banking to web development by taking software development courses for the last year. I originally graduated from the University of Washington where I studied sociology. After graduating, I began my career in the banking industry where I excelled. I was promoted three times during the four years I worked at Alaska USA. However, my interests have always been rooted in technology. While working I continued my education by enrolling in a Java course at Bellevue College, followed by full-stack JavaScript courses at Code Fellows where I graduated from this March. I have found the intersection of my love for data and design in web development. My interests have branched out to include Angular, HTML, CSS, Sass, Express, Node.js, and MongoDB. I am becoming proficient in test-driven development, object-oriented programming, and functional programming. I am also very eager to learning new technologies.
School
Code Fellows
(2015-2016)
Advanced Software Development in Full Stack JavaScript, Certificate
University of Washington
(2009-2011)
Sociology, BA Degree with Distinction
- Sociology Honors Program Graduate- 2011
- Sociology Honor Society member of Alpha Kappa Delta- 2011
- Dean’s List- Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Winter 2011
- Completed 21 page honors thesis- 2011
Green River Community College
(2007-2009)
Undergraduate Studies, AA Degree
Seattle University
(2006)
Mechanical Engineering
- Campion Scholarship Recipient- Fall 2006
Projects
- WBDB is a Heroku app that allows users to search our database for white board challenges and solutions. Registered users can submit challenges/solutions. Admins have access to a dashboard for publishing user submissions.
- Technologies: Angular, Sass, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Express, JavaScript, JWT, and Mongoose/MongoDB. Testing in Gulp, Webpack, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, and Babel.
- Personal Contributions: Writing controllers, services, and views in Angular along with back end routes complete with mongoose queries to our database.
- StockPoppers is a mobile friendly Heroku app that allows users to view a profile with up to 4 different stocks. Current and historical stock data is displayed graphically for each individual stock.
- Technologies: Yahoo's YQL API for stock data, D3.js for displaying graphs, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Express, jQuery, and Mongoose/MongoDB. Testing in Gulp, Mocha, and Chai.
- Personal Contributions: Writing schemas in Mongoose, formatting YQL queries, writing integration tests, creating authentication, establishing MongoLab, and deploying to Heroku.