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United Young is a mobile platform to connect millennials to their local church community, as well as the greater Christian community in the city.

San Francisco, California, US

• Founder and head of NYC office as 1st employee of App Academy
• Trained over 400 software engineers, across 19 cohorts
• Manager of teaching staff of 8, coordinating up to 80 students in office
• Wrote curriculum and gave daily lectures on topics including: Ruby, OOP, Rails, TDD,PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Backbone.js and algorithms
• Built student progress tracking software and lead team development across 4k commits
• Designed visual identity for App Academy, including branding and online presence

• Built and designed custom web applications for 25 clients
• Built reusable portfolio and content management framework in Rails
• Built internal tools for tracking invoices, expenses, estimating taxes
• Setup client servers with Linux/Nginx/Passenger/Rails/MySQL stack
• Responsible for client relationships, concept pitching, proposal negotiations, product training

• Served 27 clients, building custom applications including: card design and printing, online publications, e-commerce, translation, event ticketing and campaign sites
• Built and sold a custom content management framework built in PHP
• Provided hosting and dev-ops for clients using LAMP stack
• Educated co-founders and clients in emerging web technologies

• Advocated web standards, semantic HTML and CSS best practices to team
• Built Macromedia Flash applications and animations for luxury brands
• Was offered the job while doing a foreign exchange high school program at age 15