Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Vue, Redis, AWS, and clouds

I built RentDen from the ground up - including code development, UI/UX, graphic design, and marketing - to help rental property owners manage their buildings and residents. It offers them the ability to have an easy-to-use/customizable property website and user-friendly tenant portal, allowing them to streamline their communication, marketing, and even rent collection.Every feature of RentDen was designed with the rental property owner in mind. The customizable property homepage allows them to design and redesign your content at the click of a button, while the user-friendly web application organizes and simplifies communication with residents for improved unit management. RentDen simultaneously modernizes the average rental property owner's marketing ability while also increasing their building management efficiency by consolidating messaging between the owner, potential management, and the residents, sending email alerts, providing an online rent payment option, creating a place for prospective tenants to quickly access documents and forms, and more.RentDen is built on Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and MySQL. HTML & CSS, JQuery, and APIs such as Shopify (for subscriptions), Stripe (for secure online rent transactions), and Cloudinary (image handling) help to provide a dynamic, feature-rich application. For testing, I use RSpec with Capybara, Poltergeist, and PhantomJS.

Backend Software Engineer that works on the software applications team within the Digital Products Department of American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio. I am involved in the development, testing, deployment, and support of software applications. While my home base is Ruby on Rails, this position also calls for development using other Web based technologies such as JavaScript, SQL, Elasticsearch, JQuery, HTML & CSS - and building APIs using either REST or GraphQL.A summary of some of my day to day tasks are as follows: Implement and maintain applications and technology that supports the operations at MPR/APM. Participate in development of system requirements for package and custom systems implementation. Work with internal customers and other developers to define requirements to improve company efficiencies. Code, test, and implement software solutions using MPR's tools and development methodologies. Ensure that department methodologies, policies, and procedures are followed on all assigned IT Projects.I was also the founder and Chair of the People of Color Employee Resource Group (PoC ERG), on the Executive Team of the Millennial Employee Resource Group (MERG), and was the Chair of the Workplace Design Group - where I wrote a proposal and did the conceptual design for an architectural renovation to our building to encourage collaboration and community within MPR.

AbleNet Inc. specializes in Special Education curriculums, hardware, and other products. They allowed me to take over and lead their first web based application, taking it from an exceptionally unstable state that was started by an outsourced team to a stable product that successfully launched its live Beta on schedule.The 'Activity Center' enables teachers, schools and districts to create/distribute practice tests and assessments to students with a variety of learning disabilities, collect specific data for analysis, and discuss the findings with parents and specialists in hopes of providing each student with the best curriculum and education possible.Upon starting, I was solely responsible for the entire code related development of the application - a true full stack engineer from database management and backend dev, through frontend production, UX/UI and design. The Activity Center is a Rails app that uses PostgreSQL, Ruby, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, and SCSS. In a very short amount of time, the application went from fragile and behind schedule to ahead of schedule as I was able to close nearly 300 tickets/issues, implement many new features from the ground up, address ideas/requests that weren't scheduled to be tackled until 1, 2 or even 3 phases later, and convince the administration that the need for testing was essential to the longevity of the product.I worked closely with the AbleNet team in charge of developing the activities and assignments in order to help the company achieve their original vision for this application. There were also daily interactions with marketing and live user testers so that I could better understand the audience and how they would interact with the app. AbleNet was able to launch the live Beta successfully on time, and while I wasn't able to accept the offer, they did end up asking me to stay full time which was not an option when I originally took the short-term position.

Designer on a 100,000+ SF office building; from schematic design through construction documents.Coordinate building systems and structural components with consultants.

Assisted in designing projects such as high-end mixed-use, transportation, and theaters.Participated in a diverse range of activities, from design development to proposal production.

Managed and trained young interns; helped them to produce portfolios for future applications.Helped lead the design for a competition that ultimately took first place and secured the project.Assisted with the design of aviation projects, both domestic and abroad.

Integral part of design team that was short-listed in an international competition for alternative housing.

Assisted in designing high-end hospitality and mixed-use projects.Participated in meetings with marketing, project managers, and clients daily.

Assisted in designing high-end hospitality and mixed-use projects.Participated in meetings with marketing, project managers, and clients daily.

Led several small scale projects (i.e. security project, mechanical system upgrade).Participated in meetings with engineers, project managers, and clients daily.