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Rockville, Md, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Launched the engineering work on a new product, designing the initial database structure and spinning up multiple Java Spring apps. Wrote and updated documentation for that process. Implemented REST APIs and features such as a translation layer between SendGrid webhook requests and Kafka messages.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Assisted in the integration of E&E News data and systems after Politico acquired E&E News in January 2021. This included providing institutional knowledge and writing code to assist in the migration of nearly 20 years' worth of data from E&E's sales CRM and editorial CMS into Salesforce and Brightspot while ensuring day-to-day operations could continue during the transition.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Web app development: Used Ruby (often with Rails) and modern JavaScript (often with React) to build features for, maintain, and create websites, applications, APIs, and libraries for internal and external use, including E&E's customer-facing website, editorial CMS, and fully custom sales CRM. Other tools used included MySQL and Elasticsearch.• Editorial data assistance: Wrote ad hoc scripts to process and organize large amounts of data to assist reporters investigating stories.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Ruby development: Built features for, maintained, and created Rails and Sinatra web applications and gems for internal and external use.• JavaScript development: Built features for and maintained a custom-built Backbone.js-based CMS used to edit and publish ~100 news stories and one video show across six online publications every weekday.• HTML email development: Rebuilt templates for outgoing email blasts from scratch to better support all major email clients (which are notorious for inconsistent HTML and CSS support). Over 100,000 emails every weekday using these templates were sent out to subscribers from 2014 through 2021.

Washington, Dc, Us

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• Web development: Developed and maintained public-facing web projects, including the Science Game Center at http://sciencegamecenter.org/ (built with Ruby on Rails). Maintained and made technical and aesthetic improvements to FAS.org's modern and legacy web pages and its various WordPress blogs.• Internal systems development: Adopted and maintained Open Source projects to improve FAS's membership database and communication systems and reduce administrative costs. Projects included the FAS MemberCenter and donation system (built on open-source projects CiviCRM and Drupal).• IT support: Maintained the computers, network, and Google Apps accounts for an office staff of 10-20. Worked with staff to troubleshoot hardware and software issues, provide education, and assess future needs.• Office administration support: (starting in July 2012) Managed human resources and general office needs for ~10 full-time staff plus part-time fellows and interns. Served as liaison with outside accounting firm.

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Worked with supervisor and colleagues to maintain and upgrade ~540 computers for daily use by ~3,700 students and ~635 faculty/staff members in campus computer labs and classrooms.• Customer service: Worked with faculty, staff, and students to troubleshoot hardware and software issues, provide education, and assess future needs.• Built, deployed, and maintained a Mac OS X Snow Leopard system image for daily student and faculty use on 25 campus lab iMacs and Mac Pros. Built, deployed, and iterated on a prototype Windows 7 64-bit lab image to replace Windows XP on the aforementioned ~540 campus PCs.

Rochester, Ny, Us

• Worked with supervisors and colleagues to maintain and upgrade classroom technology (projectors, instructor podium PCs, AV racks, and sound systems) in more than 90 classrooms, conf. rooms, and auditoriums.• Customer service: Worked with faculty, staff, and students to troubleshoot equipment issues.• Set up and took down equipment (microphones, PA systems, projector carts) for day-to-day campus events.• Trained three newly-hired Media Student Technicians.

• Wrote and illustrated 42 editorial cartoons, 42 four-panel comic strips, and various miscellaneous illustrations for the Cardinal Courier, the award-winning student-run newspaper at St. John Fisher College, and its sister publication C Magazine

Bachelor Of The Arts, Major In English (Writing), Minor In Computer Science, Minor In The Visual And Performing Arts

Study Abroad In England