SKILLS
- IAC (Terraform)
- TDD w/ Playwright
- React
- Python
- Django
- Unity
- C#
- Svelte
- Next
- Mongo
- Firebase
- AWS/Azure
- Docker
- Figma
April 2022 - Ongoing
SENIOR FULLSTACK ENGINEER
TCARE
- Led design of self booking system saving our specialist team thousands of hrs/year
- Built service-monitoring solution showing status of all APIs and UIs
- Saved dev team months of work by discovering project was using wrong stack for requirements
- Backed up work with TDD in python and javascript
Mar 2022 - April 2023
HEAD OF ENGINEERING,
COMPASS
- Managed team of two senior engineers building second gen. of platform (Django -> MERN)
- Built mental-health recommendation system, saving 100s of hrs of manual work
- Stuck our largest University Contract (McGill) by refactoring to accept SSO
- Shortened bug detection from weeks to seconds with Cloudwatch, Sentry, Slack integration
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
DJANGO DEVELOPER,
DUNAVANT TRANSPORTATION
- Saved 600 employee-hours a month previously spent maintaining spreadsheets
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
VISUALS EDITOR,
ZENGER NEWS
- Subtitled, cut, rendered, uploaded and embedded the majority of Zenger News' video content
- Sourced and dressed photo content for news stories using Adobe Suite and Wordpress
Jan - August 2021
MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNER / VIDEO EDITOR
BERMAN & CO
- Storyboarded and designed visuals for clients using style guides
- Used Adobe AE, Premiere, Illustrator and Ps to integrate vectors, photos with videos
- Ordered voice-overs from actors and mixed stock assets with video produced in-house
2018 - 2020
LITERACY SPECIALIST,
PEACE CORPS UGANDA
- Organized and taught highly engaging weekly literacy classes with 100+ students at a time
2016 - 2018
WEB & VIDEO FREELANCER,
SELF-EMPLOYED
- Cameraman for documentary ‘The American Question’
- Built personal websites for lawyers and entrepreneurs
- Animated ad to promote “Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts” act of 2018
2017 - 2018
VIDEO PRODUCER,
SOFAR SOUNDS
- Documented 30+ live concerts in video teams
- Setup lighting and sound systems
2015 - 2016
VIDEOGRAPHER,
VCU ARTS OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
- Wrote, shot, edited admission-boosting videos for grad and undergrad programs
- Ordered and maintained cameras and camera equipment
- Supplied web-design team with compelling photography
2015 - 2016
VIDEOGRAPHER,
CULTURESCENE
- Shot and edited artist showcase videos for online magazine
- Provided photography for magazine
- Created animated bumpers for YouTube channel
PROJECTS
- Mood-tracking web app with user auth: Django backend, React frontend, Twilio text reminders
- Foundation of online marketplace site with Stripe to process real card payments
PROGRAMMING PROJECTS
- Geographic social media web-app powered by Google Maps
- Semantic Search for mental health resources powered by Open AI's Embeddings API
- Notion-inspired block-based text-editor with Next.js
- Mood-tracking web app with user auth: Django backend, React frontend, Twilio text reminders
- Built/deployed real-time, multiplayer, online boardgame with firebase, gcloud functions
June - Nov 2021
CERTIFICATE IN WEB PROGRAMMING,
HARVARD
- Built web apps with Python, JavaScript, and SQL using frameworks like Django and React
- Wrote REST APIs
- Leveraged cloud services like GitHub, Heroku, S3, and Digital Ocean
2012 - 2016
BFA IN VIDEO PRODUCTION,
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
- Studied film production, photography and animation