Building out the future of Sports in Apple News.

• Building out the future of sports embeds for Apple News.

• Engineering publisher and special events content on the Apple News platform with Javascript, Ruby, Node, React, JSON, and Apple News Format.

+ Built out a React/Redux/Sass front end from the ground up that consumed data from a Java/Aerospike/Redis API.

+ Brought on as the main in-house React/Javascript developer and coordinated daily with an agile-driven team in India.

+ Conducted daily code reviews with contractors to maintain uniform code conventions and style.

+ Integrated AWS Redshift, Leanplum, and Google Analytics behavior tracking services across the entire web platform.

+ Contracted to help setup, configure, and deploy a web & social media presence for small businesses.

+ Translated Balsamiq wireframes into Javascript/jQuery code with HTML/CSS and a CMS back-end admin panel.

+ Provided website maintenance and created user-facing feature enhancements based on user & client feedback.

+ Zumic - Contracted on an as need basis to help identify bugs using Jira and improve UI/UX to attract more users.

• QA testing in BrowserStack & Selenium. Coordinating with CEO in NY and a development team based in California/Ukraine.

+ John Hart Farms - Worked with an illustrator & project manager to turn Photoshop designs into HTML/CSS/Javascript code.

+ L. Simchick Meats - Implemented Google Analytics to gauge customer insights and drive business to brick & mortar location.

Graduate from an intensive training program designed to equip new developers with the skills necessary to launch careers in software development. This program consisted of 6 months of intensive training, classes, lectures, individual and pair programming projects, code challenges, presentations and more.

Studied a variety of web development languages & frameworks, including Javascript, React, Redux, jQuery, Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS3 & SQL.

Technical Projects:

StockTicker:

https://github.com/TheInvalidNonce/stockticker

https://stockticker-react.herokuapp.com/

A stock market dashboard built in React.

+ Users can view a dashboard of 5 different stocks at once.

+ Users can add new stocks by their symbol name.

+ Utilizes the IEX Stock Market API to retrieve real-time market data.

Coinance:

https://github.com/TheInvalidNonce/Coinance

https://coinance.herokuapp.com/

A web app built in Ruby on Rails with a jQuery front-end to manage a portfolio of cryptocurrencies & digital currency tokens.

+ Leverages JSON data from the Cryptocompare API to get real-time info & price data on 2,000+ cryptocurrencies and tokens. + Users create an account to store transactions & wallets from a list of coins to save to the database (Postgresql).

+ Implements Facebook Omniauth & Devise to manage logins, passwords, and maintain session security.

+ Styled with an open-source Bootstrap theme with custom CSS.

Airbrb:

Github: https://github.com/TheInvalidNonce/AirBrB

Live: https://airbrb.herokuapp.com/

An Airbnb inspired web application built in Rails, React, and Redux.

+ Single page application where users can create listings and integrates Google Maps API to display listings from the database.

+ Front end utilizes React components with React Router. Redux & Redux Thunk are used for predictable state management.

+ Back end built with the Rails 5 API and a Postgresql database schema for data persistence with input validation checks.