Driven by learning, changed my career path and now a passionate junior developer, growing my code craftsmanship. Graduated from Makers Academy in the UK, mastering test-driven development and object oriented design. With more than a year of experience in a start-up environment using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap 3, Angular.js and Google Firebase. A team player, a natural leader, and a developer with excellent problem solving and analytical skills, highly motivated to contribute to progressive companies.
Makers Academy: Full Stack Developer with hands-on experience using test and behaviour driven development in both Ruby and Javascript.
- 12 weeks immersive web development bootcamp with in-depth introduction to such technologies as, Nodejs, Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4, Sinatra, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, C#, NUnit, Postgres SQL and Datamapper
- Learned cutting edge coding techniques and best practices from world class developers, project-based, test-driven work and pair programming.
- Rspec, Jasmine, Cucumber, Capybara, Casperjs
- Experienced version control with git
- Adopted agile values, principles and practices
- Dedicated to clean object oriented principles and design
- Agile Methodologies
- Version control with git
- API integration: Twilio, Twitter, Github, Google Calendar
- SOLID principles incorporated into domain design
Work confidently within a group both as a team member and as a team leader.
- Enjoy Pair Programming at Makers Academy on weekly projects and two weeks on our final project
- Love working my way as Team Member/Facilator up to Team Leader/Lecturer Senior Fellow for the World of Outbound Corp. for more than 10 years, delivering safety, education and adventure to young students in a high risk, fast paced environment both indoor and outdoors.
- Love talking to people/business customers and solving their technical issues over the phone while I work at Everything Everywhere (EE). I love that I made it to the EE ASPIRE program in record time of just 5 months on the job and able to do monthly one to one coaching and goal setting for members of my team and other business tech teams as necessary.
I enjoyed being in fast paced client facing industry, both with Everything Everywhere, UK (EE) and The World of Outbound Corp., I have learnt how to interact and deal with very demanding clients.
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As a Business Technical Support Representative for EE, I was task to probe and solve technical issues for small business customers involving telecommunications and networking technology as well as different mobile operating systems such as iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile.
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As a Facilator and eventually a Senior Team Leader for The World of Outbound Corp., I was task with making decisions for the team regarding safety, security and education during outdoor educational tours involving hiking, caving, snorkling etc. I learn to love working pressure and in the process became a calm, logical and efficient problem solver.
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As a developer, dealing with challenging projects, I had to be excellent in problem solving with high attention to detail.
Free Code Camp - An open source community of busy people who learn to code and build projects for nonprofits.
- This is a link to my profile in freecodecamp!
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Databases, Git, Node.js, Angular.js, Agile
12 weeks immersive web development bootcamp:
Learned cutting edge coding techniques and best practices from world class developers, project-based test-driven work and pair programming.
- Curiosity and hungry passion for code
- Independent learner and problem-solver
- OOP, TDD, BDD, SOLID, MVC, DDD
- Software Craftsmanship
- Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Node.js, HTML and CSS
- Rspec, Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber
A Summary repository of my projects and experiences at Makers Academy can be found HERE
- 72 Units/Credits towards BS Electronic and Communication Engineering - 1994 to 1997
- 32 Units/Credits towards Diploma in Theatre Arts - Performance - 1998 to 2000
- Mountaineering, Camping and Hiking
- Anything about technology
- Running, Chess, Basketball and will try anything that can give me a good workout physically and mentally