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Truckee, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Implemented a new device verification system to ensure account security. Worked on a team with the Head of Technology and VP of product to mitigate risk throughout the product as we pushed toward enterprise-readiness.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that technology quality, user needs, and business goals all aligned.
• Built a changeset system in Ruby that synced with school information systems via SFTP to provision accounts in product and both correctly reflect roster changes and also respect user actions.
• Migrated link shortener from Heroku PostgreSQL to Amazon S3 with zero downtime.
• Kept codebase COPPA compliant. Lead cross-functional incident response and resolution.
• Founded our Diversity and Inclusion committee, which advocated for and successfully hired company’s first VP People Ops and HR.

San Francisco, California, US

• Sole engineer responsible for the marketing site upkeep. Completed full-site redesign.
• Built out tool to auto generate a component library for the React app.
• Acted as link between marketing and engineering teams.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Lectured on Ruby, JavaScript, TDD, OOJS, API integration, REST, CRUD Sinatra apps, and Ruby on Rails.
• Mentored students as they progressed through the program and through their job search.

• Rapidly prototyped new jobs search platform (competitor to Indeed and Monster).
• Worked across stack from Ruby to HTML/CSS.
• Created modular software to conform to clients’ needs and existing codebases.
• Strong emphasis on extensive testing and documentation in order to advance the company’s goal of connecting world-class brands with emerging markets.
• Contracted position.

• Designed an entire grade-level curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
• Served as Math Department Chair for one year.

New York, NY, US

• Chosen to be a member of the Values Based Leadership learning community.
• Engaged with local financial partners as a member of the Hanai-a-Teacher program.

Greensboro, NC, US

• Collaborated with the account team and clients in status updates and brainstorming sessions.
• Researched and developed pitches that target specific media outlets.
• Created entire third-quarter media report for a client: tracked coverage, compiled/analyzed data and produced the final report.

• Evaluated applicants for the student-run merit scholarship founded as a living legacy of a former student body president.
• Served as one of three student representatives selected to join the 9-person committee.

• Conducted performance evaluations on 16 staff members.
• Designed and facilitated a two-week staff-training program for 90 cabin counselors.
• Overhauled the training procedure for the horseback-riding program to better achieve safety standards.
• Coordinated bus/train/plane travel logistics for all national and international staff and campers.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Drafted fundraising letters used as standard forms for mass mailings.
• Wrote and managed website content using Wordpress.

• A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the largest student-run fundraising organization on campus, which raised $436,709.61 in the 2010-2011 academic year benefiting N.C. Children’s Hospital.
• Oversaw and managed the entire fundraising efforts and marathon events alongside 13 other chairs.
• Spearheaded coordination of four campus-wide fundraising events per month, delegated to 25-member committee.
• Increased revenue of annual kickoff event by 300%.

Ba, Psychology, Public Relations

Computer Programming

High School Diploma

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