Jen Looper Email & Phone Number

United States

Seattle, WA, US

• Founded and Designed AWS Cloud Clubs, grew membership to 55K students in 34 countries globally with particular strength in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) and Africa (Nigeria, Kenya). Built strategy.
• Worked through Security and Legal requirements to launch the program, wrote software to support the launch, and used metrics and data to enhance program by targeting appropriate markets and tailoring communications.
• Created communications strategy for internal and external stakeholders.
• Gathered allies across Amazon to help manage large cohort intake annually (5-10% acceptance rate into the Cloud Club Captain groups).
• Designed ‘Camp’ program, Exam Slam, and Student Community Day strategies for hands-on Cloud Club learning and in-person activations on campus, designing Credly certifications that students can earn.
• Hired and led the 5-member multicultural, global Academic Team of Program Managers, Community Managers, and Developer Advocates. This team won the 'Team Up For The Win' award in Developer Relations in 2022.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Taught CS 601 (Front-End Development) - basics of CSS, JavaScript, HTML and Vue.js
• Developed introductory pre-course curricula for college use

• Founded this nonprofit organization supporting women web and mobile developers with chapters worldwide
• Managed fundraising, budgeting, and professional communications strategy
• Founded leadership team of 3, invented chapter model globally
• Designed, wrote, and maintained curricula used globally
• Hosted Front-End Foxes Day event in Austin, TX
• Hosted in person workshops at conferences globally, free for women developers

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led a team of Developer Advocates in Academic Advocacy, collaborating with student-focused teams to sponsor, coach, and mentor up to 10 advocates.
• Managed Museums and Libraries Pilot program, partnering with museums like the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
• Developed 5 popular online curricula with over 3 million page views on GitHub.
• Developed 3 'Mystery' online experiences - tech scavenger hunts with thousands of engagements.
• Led seasonal serverless month-long challenges with Microsoft Learn Student ambassadors

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed 6-personal regional team for NAMER and LATAM

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Advocated for NativeScript on the Mobility Team and Kendo on the Web Team
• Managed the 50-member Progress Developer Experts program, supervising its rebranding and relaunch
• Moderated the NativeScript Community Slack Channel comprised of 9000+ developers, including creating periodic app contests and community activities
• Created the annual NativeScript Ambassadors program - 20 Ambassadors led by Developer Experts under my direction for a summer cohort to grow the NativeScript community
• Presented 3-4 Product-based webinars per year
• Attended 20+ conferences per year, managing booth and giving talks and keynoting

Aliso Viejo, Caliornia, US

• Introduced Responsive Web Design to company
• Reskinned websites to create RWD experience for mobile users
• Built mobile app for iOS and Android

Designed, built and launched cross-platform mobile apps and web sites, eventually maintaining 20 indie educational and fitness apps in the iOS and Android app stores. Sold an app to an investor (Roomalyzer mobile app)

Westborough, MA, US

• Managed all aspects of web development for client-facing and internal websites, including all e-commerce sites and offline ordering sites.
• Optimized all current client websites for mobile using JQuery mobile and code enhancements/rewrites.
• Coded enhancements for legacy Coldfusion codebase, including rewriting shopping cart from scratch.
• Wrote complex SQL queries for financial reporting, manage Data Warehouse using SSIS
• Introduced coding best practices to company, ensure quality control, introduce BSA and PM standards.
• Worked with in-house and remote teams of developers, including offshore contractors.

OO

• Led team of onsite and offshore developers in Flex development for extremely large, modular, web-based insurance application, largest ever undertaken by company from wireframes to production.
• Architected core module for this project (Underwriting) using Flex and Cairngorm with Java communicating with backend
• Earned Star award (corporate recognition) for team lead skills; my Irish team also earned awards for our core contribution to the project
• Produced estimates for work, project plans, code reviews, prototyping, proofs of concept, wireframes, and usability analyses of front end work as needed, and contribute to team’s codebase
• Acted as liaison between business and developers to produce usable web apps following standard Usability protocol
• Successfully introduced use of MachII framework to support development

US

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, French Language And Literature

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, French Studies, Medieval And Renaissance Studies