Full Stack Developer
I am a full stack developer looking to tackle some of today's biggest challenges, through creative problem solving. I want to apply the wide breadth of knowledge/skills gained through my 10+ years of financial services experience into a development role. Download my resume here.
UX User Research App
Twitter Visualization App
Job Search App
I am fluent in JavaScript, with the ability to use its openness to craft elegant and concise code.
I dream in Ruby, leveraging all those amazing built-in methods to craft creative solutions.
I can build on Rails, using its simplicity and ease of use to build some great web apps.
I have honed my frontend framework skills on Backbone.js.
I can query a database with the best of them.
I am all about HTML TAGs, using them to build the scaffolds to awesome web apps.
With CSS I can take awesome HTML5 scaffolds and make them into sweet looking web apps/ pages.
When I Mixin in some Sass I can make a more maintainable code base.
I can send my apps to the cloud. I sent my apps to Heroku, AWS and Digital Ocean.
I can push/pull, clone/fork and git init.
I am all about that morning scrum and backlogging.
I work in Atom to build some sweet apps.
I had previous been in financial services for 10+ years. The majority of that time was spent at Merrill Lynch, where I worked in Electronic Sales Trading. While there, I fell in love with coding. It all started with some VBA scripting, which peaked my interest in programming and eventual desire to transition into a dev role.
After leaving Merrill, I took some design courses at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture. Here I learned the process of design thinking and creative problem solving. What about coding you may be thinking?
Dev bootcamps were just starting to spring up and I was exploring the landscape. In the meantime I started an online footwear boutique. Here I learned all about entrepreneurship, SEO, digital marketing, and time management. It was an awesome experience but coding was still something I really wanted to pursue. This became apparent when I heard about General Assembly's Web Development Immersive Fellowship (Opportunity Fund).
I instantly applied and a few weeks later I was 1 of 6, out of a total pool of 600, chosen to be a WDI fellow. Here, I was able to hone my programming skills and build the sweet apps below. WDI was an amazing experience, which has given me an amazing foundation in programming, and now I'm ready to pursue a career in development.
