Capabilities Rated 3 out of 5 or above (details below) HTML, CSS, LESS, Sass, JavaScript (vanilla), jQuery, Node.js (incl. Express.js), CoffeeScript, Knockout.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, Ruby, Rails, PHP, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Git, SVN, etc. Education 2007 - 2009 Cato Middle College High School High School Diploma Dual-enrollment with 37 completed hours 2009 - 2012 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Major in Computer Science Double major in International Studies Study Abroad One year at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) Employment 2014 (Presently) Senior Front-End Engineer Ally Financial (Banking; Charlotte, NC) Engage with product managers and business executives to gather project requirements, estimate development timelines, and ensure timely and accurate development Develop new products with specific emphasis on code re-usability, modularity, and compartmentalization, to be used across multiple products and lines of business Provide basic and advanced front-end development techniques to junior developers Work exclusively with HTML, CSS (Sass), and (mostly) JavaScript, with Node.js being used to develop internal services and toolkits
2013 Software Engineer Sonobi Media (Supply-side Ad. Platform; Orlando, FL) Develop new dashboards and tools to help publishers better understand their advertising metrics and manage their advertising campaigns Update and maintain systems that sync with multiple ad servers such as AppNexus and Sonobi Go as well as provide public-facing APIs for publisher-enabled development Utilize PHP, JavaScript (incl. Prototype.js), CSS3 (incl. LESS) consistently, as well as SVN for version control
2013 Software Engineer Vingle (Social start-up; Seoul, Korea) Develop new features and refactor old ones using a mix of bleeding edge and stable web technologies Create and maintain a separate Rails API used to serve data to two mobile applications serving over 150 concurrent users at any given time as well as 30,000+ unique monthly web visitors Strong implementation of TDD as well as over 20 hours of weekly pair programming with senior engineers Work with a product and design team to bring compositions to the screen and make them a working reality Make sure all new code is IE-compatible to IE7 to serve a largely IE-based Korean user market Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (CoffeeScript), CSS3 (Sass), Heroku, Git for managing multiple large projects, Pivotal Tracker/Google suite for project management and communication, etc.
2012 2013 Web Developer (Internship/Temporary) American City Business Journals (Sporting News, Charlotte, NC) Worked to rewrite & redesign the mobile web site to be a single-page web application with a responsive layout for phone and tablet device sizes Utilize PHP + MySQL + nginx, JavaScript (incl. Backbone + Dust), HTML5, CSS3 (incl. LESS), Bootstrap, Git, etc. consistently
2011 - 2012 1:1 Private English Instructor Self-employed (Seoul, Korea) Offer one-on-one English tutoring Cover all aspects using reading, writing, speaking, and listening Grammar as well as conversational topics High school students to adult ages