I am an engineer in search of a web developer position. My tools currently include Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, Solr, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Git, TDD, pair programming and Agile methodologies. I enjoy public speaking and seek to constantly grow as a person.

Projects include: 

A Single Sign-On portal/API to authenticate and authorize users and internal applications

A User Management application for creating and updating a user's application permissions

A performant, scalable Ruby + Solr Search API 

Mentored new developers through introductory computer science topics such as iteration, recursion, regex, OOP, and SQL

Designed drainage and land development plans, met with clients, utilized AutoCAD

The Dev Bootcamp API project includes a RESTful API application that returns JSON. Unit and integration tests are done with RSpec and Capybara.

A friendly, OAuth 2-enabled developers' portal application with documentation, code examples, and support

A published client gem called DBC-Ruby   

Rap Laughs was the winning entry in the 2nd Dev Bootcamp Hackathon. This project uses JavaScript to play audio files on mouse click and is tested using Jasmine.

This Rails project utilizes Object-Oriented JavaScript and the Redis server to persist data and is tested using Jasmine.

800+ hours of immersive web development, including pair programming, TDD, and Agile methodology

Master of Divinity

Bachelor of Science in General Engineering

ChicagoRuby, Groupon's Geekfest!, Refresh Chicago, and Dev Bootcamp Chicago Speaker Series