An intensive training program designed to equip New Yorkers with the skills necessary to launch careers in web development. This program includes three months of intensive, full-time on-campus training, including classes/lectures, individual, pair and group programming projects, code challenges, presentations and more.

• Studied a variety of web development languages, frameworks, and libraries in-depth, including Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, React/Redux, SQL, ActiveRecord, Git, HTML, CSS

• Collaborated on project teams to develop and present a variety of web-based applications and build web development skills and efficiency, including:

Janx Chat

A simple, real time, web-enabled chat app

+ Connected WebSockets channels to deliver messages to multiple web clients in real time

+ Designed Rails API to deliver customized content to multiple json endpoints via http and ws

+ Built React component structure to display user and message information instantaneously

Flatwords Crossword

An interactive crossword web app inspired by The New York Times

+ Created single page application using Rails and Javascript, enabling both persistence and dynamic interaction

+ Built a responsive UI using CSS-Grid and vanilla JavaScript to highlight crossword hints based on user input

+ Implemented server side authorization to allow users to sign in and persist game state

Product Development - Financial Research Emailer

• --Researched and updated free product user database, analyzed user activity in order to develop promising sales prospects and generate conversation starters. (MYSQL, Excel)

• --Designed and implemented process to gather feedback from prospects, deliver in timely manner to development team and management. (Emails, Call Scripts, Webex, Tracking Documents)

• --Created client facing documentation for new product

• --Communicated with over 400 firms worldwide over 4 months.

• --Researched and proposed pricing for product based on current market and generated immediate

client interest.

Project Management - Financial Research Readership Dashboard

• --Designed process for client on-boarding from first sales contact to full use and ongoing maintenance

• --Minimized setup and maintenance costs by standardizing communication between development partners and clients

• --Initiated and communicated regular bug reporting, testing and development release schedule for developers and clients (Google Docs)

Technical Customer Support - Research Distribution Platform

• --Responsible for 800 active client institutions worldwide accounting for industry's largest single source of financial research publishing by volume

• --12 months no escalation of client issues, introduced multiple communication standards to minimize workload, setup and trained 20+ new clients, led global support team and trained new support personnel.

Data Analysis - Financial Research Readership Dashboard

• --Developed and applied research system to clean database of ~20k firms in industry-wide database

• --Trained two new data cleaning team members

• --Tested and provided weekly feedback for development of data cleaning interface

• --Researched and proposed Bayesian approach to data cleaning as cost effective alternative to manual process