Always Prepped, Web Developer

Rockville, MD, Feb. 2013 – Present

Lead front-end architect, and full stack developer. Responsible for implementing new features, and maintaining existing ones. Maintaining and refactoring of legacy code in a quickly iterating product. Complex integration with external, authenticated API’s data.

Primary duties & Responsibilities

• Build and iterate new, complex, user-facing features, given a visual/interaction design template. Full stack: client browser to server to database and back.
• Build and sustain a large, quickly iterating JavaScript framework in modular fashion, including large blocks of legacy code.
• Build visualizations of existing data, with user-defined parameters
• Access authenticated API’s and integrate external data with internal.

Technology keywords:

Modular JavaScript, Underscore.js, jQuery, jQuery UI, Backbone.js, Java, Spring, MySQL, MVC (both browser and server), OpenID, OAuth, SaaS, XML parsing, HTML(5), CSS(3), Twitter Bootstrap, Legacy Code, Highcharts, jUnit, SVN, Mixpanel, Knockout.js, PHP

ICON Worldwide, Web Development Intern

Bühler, Switzerland, Jan. 2012 – Feb. 2013

Maintained content, appearance, and functionality in many existing websites in built in multiple frameworks. Created a mobile web application, and an iOS native counterpart. Created basic Flash animation website banner.

Primary duties & Responsibilities

• Update content on live, multi-lingual client websites.li>
• Maintain functionality in live websites, such as broken plug-ins, forums receiving spam, etc.
• Create Flash animations for website banners
• Create an iPhone App, put into the App store, and create mobile web app counterpart

Technology keywords:

Drupal, Wordpress, CMS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Flash, Mobile App, Web App, iOS, iPhone, PhoneGap, HTML, CSS, Adobe Edge Animate

Engaging Computing Lab, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Lowell, MA, Jan 2011 – Apr 2012

Development on The App Inventor Gallery, a web app marketplace for free exchange of App Inventor code. Ran Beta Testing for the App Inventor Gallery. Taught a basic robotics course to children.

Primary duties & Responsibilities

• Develop new functionalities including site-wide “Search”, “Advanced Search”, and “Browsing” of apps
• Use git and GitHub to work with a distributed team of developers
• Unit and integration testing of every piece of functionality written.
• World wide Beta Testing with hundreds of participants.

Technology keywords:

JavaScript, MVC, AJAX, ORM, HTML, CSS, git, GitHub, qooxdoo, Google Docs/ Forms/ Spreadsheets, unit testing, integration testing, Finch (robot), robotics

User Interface Engineering, Production Assistant / Web Development

North Andover, MA, Aug. 2012 – Nov. 2012

Publishing company’s weekly HTML newsletter. Development of an automated tool for fluid publishing of weekly newsletter. Observe and input on alpha testing of new website feature.

Primary duties & Responsibilities

• Translate articles from a variety of sources, by hand, into the strict newsletter format
• Proofread newsletter for grammar, syntax, and human error in translation.
• Develop an easy to use tool for automating the translation of articles into the strict newsletter format.