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United States

New York, New York, Us

Building a next generation B2B market research platform with Python, Typescript/NextJS and a Serverless Cloud backend.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Contributed production-ready Ruby and Javascript code on the backend and frontend of the core Ruby on Rails application, working regularly with PostgreSql, ElasticSearch, Redis, and Sidekiq on the backend as well as ReactJs with tools like Webpack and Storybook on the frontend.- Collaborated daily, asynchronously and face-to-face with a cross-functional fully remote team, using Shape-up principles to ensure timely delivery of stakeholder-aligned customer-facing features on the company’s signature work engagement platform.- Owned, delivered, and launched customer-facing projects as lead developer, including two vital to the business model: Pingboard's Slack and Microsoft Teams add-ons. Worked extensively with the APIs and SDKs for third-party platforms, like MS Teams and Slack to build interactive messaging bots, new integration workflows, and a user dashboard on those systems.- Built and delivered on major platform-wide projects, like a new user-notification and preferences project, and a granular role-based permissions project, as well as many others.- Immediately established value for the company from day one by working smartly and rapidly to grasp the complex ins and outs of a mature Rails codebase, so I could begin adding well-tested feature code asap.- Observed and tracked production/staging level errors in Airbrake daily, to ensure timely mitigation of bug issues in production, by quickly finding workarounds and applying fixes to production code.- Helped accelerate our team's time-to-launch and overall performance through introducing and leading project planning sessions on our 6 person team, where we would craft and manage testable user-stories with acceptance criteria.- Reviewed and requested on Github Pull Requests (PRs), as part of our daily code quality practices, providing timely feedback to ensure changes were safe, performant, bug-resistant, and well documented before they were pushed to production.

Spent a number of months focusing on developing new art and business elements for my artist brand. It was a deep dive introspection that led to much new art; I made over 50 gouache and oil paintings over the course of the break, and built out my online storefront.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Engineered state-level Ruby on Rails contracting projects, seeing development through from start to launch, and working closely with project managers and designers to ensure timely delivery and release of new systems and features.- public-facing projects include: Maryland State Financial Disclosures, Maryland One Stop, Maryland VetBoard, among others.• Spearheaded initiatives to build and maintain custom developer-side tooling and Continuous Integration (CI) on AWS with Codepipeline, Codebuild, and ECS.• Led Agile refinement and estimation sessions with our 14 member development team, providing technical feedback to product and design.• Ensured success of development efforts by collaborating with Product, Design, and QA to verify and align feature requests with technical specs.• Managed 4 developers, shaping plans for growth, facilitating weekly check-ins, and providing timely feedback on issues and progress.• Developed, tested, and delivered production ready features on high profile web applications used regularly by thousands of Maryland State government employees and citizens.• Contributed code daily alongside a team of 14 engineers, building out features and bug-fixes on our flagship Form Builder platform, a Ruby on Rails backend with MongoDB storage, Elasticsearch, and VueJS (with Typescript) on the front.• Collaborated regularly with other developers in pairing sessions and informal code reviews, helping more junior members adjust to team norms and write/ contribute conventional, readable code to our projects. Worked regularly with Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Rspec, Capybara, MongoDB, JavaScript, Typescript, JQuery, ElasticSearch, Vue, HTML/CSS, Git Version Control, AWS Amazon Web Services, CodeBuild, Elastic Container Service, Docker

• Consulted for Edmund Burke School: crafting new computer science curriculum proposal.• Designed, built and deployed mobile directory app (hybrid ionic ios/android) to app stores for Local School, used by faculty, staff, student, and parent users. • Built and maintain custom service on AWS, which syncs data across platform API platforms.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Launched grade-wide program innovations for computational thinking, computer science, and experiential learning.• Designed and taught intro-level courses in JavaScript, Python, and web development with NodeJS.• Engineered and taught robotics curriculum with Arduino compatible microcontrollers.• Facilitated 15-week problem-based human centered design course on food access in the DMV.• Scripted GSuite workflows in JavaScript with Google Apps Script.• Coordinated and managed a Makerspace with 3D printers, Desktop Laser cutters, and robotics tools.

Lawrenceville, Nj, Us

• Designed and Implemented professional development experiences for high school faculty. Gathered, recorded, and shared best practices for engaging students with our specific learning management system, Haiku.• Designed and Engineered various single-page apps using JavaScript, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB.• Introduced teachers to pedagogical techniques and practices whereby students engaged with technology to both learn and demonstrate learning. Provided regular one-on-one support for curriculum development with web 2.0 technologies.• Developed innovative solutions to perennial teaching & learning problems through intentional iterative design & technology. • Collaborated with colleagues at peer schools to implement online learning initiatives.

Lawrenceville, Nj, Us

**Mentor For Individual Teachers** In this process teacher and mentor worked together to assess teaching methods and techniques, diagnostics, which I would then use to guide them toward updating their teaching to intentionally integrate technology. Our mission in this program always focused on putting student learning first. My mentor role was unique to each teacher dependent upon his/her comfort level with the available technologies as well as his/her desire to transform individual units and projects in ways that engaged and motivated students by using available technologies.**PLP Leader** Led a group of teachers through yearlong Professional Development Program (Powerful Learning Practice), intended to help them bring inquiry based and project based learning into their classrooms while intentionally employing the power of web technologies.**Learning Management System Pilots Coordinator* 6 month leadership role in group assigned to diagnose the effectiveness of our current LMS (Learning Management System), determine our needs, and assess alternative system.**Design Thinking**Constructed and Implemented a course for 12th graders through the process of “design thinking”, made popular by Tim Brown (founder of IDEO) in his book Design For Change. The course centered on Project Based Learning (PBL) The headmaster and I designed and taught the course together and our overall aim in this course was to empower students that innovation and change-making is always available to them if they have the proper knowledge and skills to work together effectively in groups. Our goal was to inspire them that they can make change in their community and with the headmaster’s help we offered them the chance to implement their projects within Lawrenceville’s community on its 700-acre campus.**Cultural Studies Program, History Department 2010 – 2013**** Visual Art & Design, Visual Art Department, 2007 – 2013**

• Trained in Visual Arts at Brown University.• Designed print logos and other graphic materials for a range of corporate and individual clients including Grammy winning Pacific Boychoir, Sustainable Fare, and the Lawrenceville School.• Proficient in creating and editing websites using HTML, CSS, and Javascript• Designed and Taught high school level curriculum on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design, HTML, CSS, JavascriptTo see examples of work, scroll to bottom and make sure you're looking at full profile. If you're looking for either print or web design work, please feel free to message me with direct requests via linked in or sheamusburns@gmail.com.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History Of Art And Architecture, Visual Art

High School Diploma