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Miami, Florida, Us

St Louis, Mo, Us

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Customized solutions for the modern web. Using a variety of technologies to serve dynamic content to users, I help clients upgrade the look, feel, and features of their websites using fully-customized HTML, CSS, and JavaScript solutions. For more information, please visit https://alexpear.com.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led the team of software developers building out the web application through which users curated content, interacted with quizzes and learning materials, and tracked user learning through Volley.com. This team quickly iterated on the core application built with Python which served up content through a GraphQL API consumed by our React front-end.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Savvy Coders is partnering with renowned bootcamp Hack Reactor to bring 4-week courses in entry-level web development to the Nashville Area. For those looking to learn the essential programming skills of the 21st century, Savvy Coders offers part-time courses in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My role is to develop and present curriculum for these introductory courses, as well as hiring, training, and managing the instructor team across all classes. Accomplishments include: -building and running the day-to-day lecture materials for all classes-presenting introductory lessons for prospective students-teaching the first two cohorts of Savvy Coders (held in October and November of 2015)-managing the deployment of all Savvy Coders' online materials (https://savvycoders.com)-providing mentorship and out-of-class support for all Savvy Coders past, present, and future

Hamburg, De

As a Full-Stack developer with Bauer, it was my job to ensure that existing print publications were served to millions of readers while, at the same time, building out new and exciting ways to monetize written content for the modern web.From a technical perspective, this meant maintaining legacy Ruby on Rails applications while working to convert some of these monolithic verticals into a microservice architecture. These microservices include Front-End components built with React, data layers built with Redux, Redux Sagas, and functional programming techniques, and RESTful APIs.

Sellersburg, In, Us

In addition to an active JavaScript development workload, I also lead the team of Front End developers for Pivot's primary software application, Pivot.

Sellersburg, In, Us

Five-Star Technologies is bringing technology to the classroom, and I help develop the JavaScript applications needed to make that vision a reality.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Claim Academy is a bootcamp-style series of courses in basic application development. Future computer gurus and technical co-founders of St. Louis start-ups go through our 12-week courses in Java and .NET before taking our city by storm.Responsibilities include program development and implementation, student and instructor recruiting, technical vetting of students, curriculum development and maintenance, website and online presence leadership, and public outreach.Accomplishments include:-building all administrative processes from the ground up, including application processes, student recruitment, instructor recruitment, daily schedules, and scholarship programs-building all initial marketing and promotional efforts from the ground up, leading to the launch of a successful Java pilot program within 4 months-developing curriculum for evening and weekend Java and .NET bootcamps within first 6 months-recruiting, vetting, and hiring multiple instructor teams for Java and .NET bootcamps-hiring and leading administrative team in charge of operations-growing applicant pool up to over 200 applicants per class

Hendersonville, Tn, Us

After graduating from college, co-founded Shackle Island CrossFit and Weightlifting with two business partners. SICF is a top-of-the-line training facility offering classes in recreational and competitive CrossFit and Olympic Weightlifting. My responsibilities as CEO and Head Coach included: creating and implementing training programs for athletes, managing personnel, purchasing and maintaining equipment and supplies, establishing and maintaining a strong social media presence, leading marketing and outreach efforts, creating and hosting competitions and seminars for members and guests, maintaining our websites, and anything else that needed to be done to make the business flourish. Shackle Island CrossFit and Weightlifting is still going strong under new management. Accomplishments: -Built SICF from 0 clients to 150 clients in 3 years-Designed and implemented new programs and classes in General Fitness, CrossFit, Kids’ CrossFit, Competitive Fitness, Beginners’ Weightlifting, Competitive Weightlifting-Managed a staff of 7 part-time Coaches-Created, promoted, and managed multiple weightlifting meets of over 50 competitors and 100s of spectators, including the largest weightlifting meet ever held in Nashville. -Oversaw SICF's move from its original 5000 sq-ft industrial warehouse to its current 7200 sq-ft commercial location.

The Lion’s Pause is a student-run night club and kitchen for students of St. Olaf College. It was my responsibility to promote events, kitchen specials, and the nightclub in general. Promotion was accomplished through digital, social, and physical media, promotional events, and by ensuring the quality of all events. Accomplishments:-Successfully hosted the largest single event in Lion’s Pause history (over 1500 in attendance).-2011 was the top-grossing year ever for kitchen sales-2011 had the highest event attendance of any year

While attending St. Olaf College, I founded a small non-profit company that connected music students on campus with K-12 music students in the Northfield area in exchange for student work hours. My responsibilities included raising and managing funds, connecting students in Northfield to St. Olaf instructors, and promoting the program and music instruction in general to St. Olaf and Northfield students.Accomplishments: -Awarded $2500 in a business-plan contest awarded by the St. Olaf Center for Entrepreneurship-Connected students to student-teachers for over 100hrs of instruction in a variety of instruments-Provided St. Olaf music students with over $10,000 in student work compensation.

Northfield, Mn, Us

While attending St. Olaf as a student, worked for the Admissions department as a part of my student work obligations. It was my responsibility to schedule and lead tours of the campus for prospective students and their families. Tour groups ranged in size from 2 people to up to 10 on one tour.Accomplishments: -Had the highest number of positive ratings from prospective students among all tour guides for 2010, and second-highest in 2009-Had the highest conversion rate among all tour guides for 2010 (i.e. I had the highest percentage of my prospective students eventually attend St. Olaf)