I am a problem solver.
I spent 16 years working in mental health, helping others solve their problems. Eventually I came to the
realization that while I loved helping clients through their problems, ultimately I had no control over the
final outcome.
What I love most about being a software developer is that I have the ability to solve any problem. I still
have the satisfaction of breaking something apart and trying to understand what the issue is. Now, I also
get to solve that problem. There is something so incredibly satisfying about not only being able to
understand the problem, but being able to create a solution and implement it.
Software development has allowed me to expand upon a part of my previous career that I enjoyed most
while
also providing the ability to directly solve a problem.
(January 2010 – September 2017) Billing Specialist (Part-time)
(January 2010 – July 2015) Counselor (Part-time)
(April 2008 – January 2010) Office Manager (Full-time)
For my front-end capstone at Nashville Software School I created Dram. Dram is a single page whiskey tasting application which allows users to participate in live whiskey tastings, view and share their reviews instantly, and provide searchable historical data. I built the application using React and used reactstrap for styling. Dram was tested at a live whiskey tasting in which 10 people utilized the application to participate in a blind tasting while saving their ratings and reviews.
I built a project with 4 teammates that was a social media platform called Nutshell. This was our third group project at Nashville Software School and we used HTML, CSS, Javascript, CRUD functionality, API fetch calls, Flexbox, Visual Studio Code, Git, Github, http-server, json-server, Bootstrap, Grunt, and Browserify to build the website. During this project I learned to use more GitHub features including creating, reading, and completing issues, and card flow in the project session. I also gained experience using Browserify and Bootstrap in building a website.
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For my back-end capstone at Nashville Software School I created 1000Words. 1000Words is an interactive photo album which allows users to talk about their photos and tag them with keywords using speech-to-text technology. 1000Words allows users to search through all of their photos quickly using only keywords or dates, significantly decreasing the amount of time needed to find photos. I built the application using C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Identity Framework, Recorder.js, and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API.
