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

• 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• Fostered strong alumni relationships, receiving rave reviews on program and lecturing

• 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