Work Experience
Section Coordinator : June 2014 - Present
- Along with two others, coordinate a collective of 50+ volunteers
- Act as representative for Peer Counseling Collective to clients, other sections at the clinic, and others who contact the collective
Peer Counselor : April 2013 - Present
- Member of the Peer Counseling Collective
- Underwent six month training by fellow volunteers; trained volunteers following year
- Learned a counseling model based on the theories of Carl Rogers
- Counseled diverse cross-section of the East Bay community
REVD :
Software Developer : December 2011 - Present
- On a team of two engineers, developed website.
AFAR :
Software Developer : May 2011 - November 2011
- Developed travel magazine website with Ruby on Rails.
StreamSend :
Software Developer : Feb 2011 - May 2011
- Developed email marketing tool with Ruby on Rails.
- Worked as a member of a remotely working team.
- All code developed using TDD and pair programming.
- Using Ruby, developed screen scraping tools for
MySpace, Twitter, Facebok
Talent Maven :
Software Developer : Sep 2009 - Nov 2010
- Social networking startup targeting artists and
entertainment industry professionals.
- Implemented AJAX media management interface using
JQuery
- Integrated 3rd Party APIs: YouTube and MySpace
- Using Ruby, developed screen scraping tools for
MySpace, Twitter, Facebok
- Implemented a YouTube video importer
- Tools used: Symfony Framework 1.2,
Mercurial, Ruby 1.9, RSpec-2, JQuery
Self-Employed : IT Consultant : Feb 2009 - Present
- Jerome Gun Hill BID: Drupal site build out
- Metro DC Area PFLAG: Wordpress site build out
- Olive Juice
Music: Drupal site build out
- Freelancers Union: developed PostgreSQL Stored
Procedures
Freelancers
Union : Lead/Developer : Oct 2006 - Feb 2009
Lead Developer : May 2008 - Feb 2009
- Managed team of four developers
- Responsible for code quality, review, merging
- Coordinated schedule and completion of development tasks
between dev team, QA analyst and PM
Software Developer : Oct 2006 - May 2008
- Maintained internal CRM web application on in-house PHP4
MVC framework
- Developed new CRM tools in Symfony framework on PHP5
Billing IT : Software Developer : May 2004 - Feb 2006
- Maintained web application presenting telecom billing
data
- First exposure to horror of messy real-life code
- Developed Javascript libraries for AJAX interfaces
- Improved application response time, simplified client-side
logic
Education
- Bachelor of Arts, 2005
- Major: Individualized Study with concentrations in Computer
Science and Music
- Coursework included a full Honors Computer Science
curriculum
- Honors: Cum Laude
- Cumulative GPA: 3.595
Interests
sound and music, recording, songwriting, fingerstyle guitar, John Fahey,
psychology, meditation, reading and writing, Ursula K LeGuin