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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Replatformed production cooking website from custom Backbone implementation to modern React+ Upgraded JavaScript tool chain to Babel 7, Webpack 4, and React 16

Hoboken, Nj - New Jersey

Replatformed production e-commerce website from custom jQuery implementation to modern Reactapplication with Node.js middleware processed with Babel.js on containerized cloud infrastructure+ Modified custom design system using React Storybook, enabling rapid prototyping and development+ Developed responsive components, scaling from desktop to mobile+ Coordinated and modified load testing suite to ensure stability and scalability of website during highest consumer visit days of the year

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed and oversaw a functional pod of five engineers and three product professionals building Node and Angular 1.5 products for course planning and administration tools for 1.7B market cap education company+ Managed change from scrum to agile processes with pair programming, retros, and facilitated blameless post-mortems+ Replaced two-week waterfall build process with zero downtime deployments and 100% test coverage of new code + Regularly collaborates cross functionally to build products that meet security, WCAG, and engineering standards+ Hired and onboarded engineers to regularly deploy bug free code+ Prevented DOA feature builds by creating a culture of working with product and user stories in roadmapping

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed and oversaw seven engineers and two product professionals to liberate functionality from a legacy PHP codebase into a new web application in Python and Angular 1.5 hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services) + Overhauled project management system structure through more robust requirements gathering, visualizing test coverage, leading to decrease emergencies and preventing the need for hotfixes.+ Implemented code coverage visualization and Git hooks to provide immediate test coverage feedback

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Web developer specializing in JavaScript.+ Owned and implemented major accessibility and usability enhancements for a suite of interactive content elements and video players in JavaScript and HTML, including cross-platform screen reader accessibility for JAWS and VoiceOver+ Codified and collected user event data with Analytics.js and analyzed with PostgreSQL+ Refactored AngularJS 1.0 app for assignment uploading, instructor feedback, and grades into Angular 1.4

New York, Ny, Us

Developed "Transcriot" - A Ruby on Rails application that provides a transcription interface for the NYPL digital archives+ Enables user-created bounding boxes around image content with JavaScript and jQuery+ Makes use of the Tesseract OCR engine to assist transcriptionist and locate content+ Designed RESTful API to serve JSON data from a MySQL database

New York, New York, Us

Proudly trained in full-stack development at the first Flatiron School fellowship and trained in Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Produced many projects in this time including:The Game of Life Trifecta - Three virtual worlds where cells live and die according to logical rules + Original Style> Migrated from a command-line application to Sinatra and hosted on Heroku> Analysis of changing cell population stops gameplay after a stable state is reached+ With population analysis> Cells are colorized as a function of age to display population dynamics> Implemented D3 data visualization of age at time of death to show sub-populations of cells + Competitive Game of Life> Made use of ownership models to enable multiple players and recognize win conditions - Marked up in HAML with SCSS pre-processingThe Map Game - An online game populated with neighborhood data from NYC Open Data> Makes use of API retrieval to obtain and parse live data of New York City neighborhoods> Runs a testing suite using Rspec, factories, and fakerMaze Runner - A maze-solving, mouse race simulator> A semi-random, depth-first search emulates a mouse’s exploration of an arbitrary maze> Encoding path travelled as both a hash and an array enables backing up out of dead-endsMemory Game - Sinatra app with a jQuery-based interface and cards made from popular webcomics> Interfaces with a Sinatra API> Serializes card values by means of YAML

New York, New York, Us

> Visualizes data with statistics, quantitative analysis, and design techniques in this part-time position.> Enhances the clarity and emotional impact of data in presentations and written documentation.> Organized volunteers at the Visualized conference, exploring the intersection of big data, storytelling, and design.

> Managed research, data collection, and interpretation of data concerning pharmaceutical and health care economics to obtain strategic insights into health insurance trends in this 3 month contract position.> Recruited and conducted interviews with subject matter experts and key stakeholders.> Designed presentations and written documentation to convey relevant information clearly and effectively.

New York, Ny, Us

> Planned and executed experiments, data acquisition, and analysis within time and budget.> Developed a new model of spinal cord injury for more accurate axonal regeneration measurements at less cost.> Communicated and presented research findings to both a technical and lay audience through grant applications, lab meetings, and invited lectures. Authored and contributed to five peer-reviewed and published papers.> Trained in effective science communication techniques including visual and graphical means.> Managed multiple simultaneous collaborative projects with researchers across three different institutions.

> Customized and taught biology curricula to High school and university students.> Increased student scores and engagement by including appropriate humor and creativity into science lessons.

San Francisco, California, Us

> Managed projects and a budget of thousands of dollars of grant money for laboratory unit.> Conducted veterinary surgery and recovery assays while ensuring humane treatment of model organisms.> Reduced waste and experimental cost by scaling up and refining histological techniques used to study the role of the immune system in neuronal degeneration.

> Managed a Martial Arts Program office serving seven clubs and over 500 students.> Student instructor for the Taekwondo club.> Organized fundraising efforts for the 2002 World University Taekwondo Championships> Trained in martial arts at the Beijing University of Physical Education (‘00) and Yongin University in Korea (‘01).

Berkeley, Ca, Us

> Assumed responsibility for organizing, managing, and running the laboratory sequencing facility.> Supported other investigators with molecular biology techniques.> Successfully isolated and sequenced a previously unknown zebra fish olfactory gene by diagnostic PCR.

Web Development

Ph.D., Neuroscience

Ba, Neuroscience

Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Web Development

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