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Employment History

Developer, Renewable Funding, LLC
(Full-time employee)
March 2010 – present
(Portland, OR)
Develop and maintain Ruby on Rails applications.
Lead Developer, CTI Solutions Group
(Full-time employee)
August 2009 – March 2010
(Portland, OR)
Developed and maintained Ruby on Rails applications.
Developer, raSANTIAGO & Associates
(Part-time employee)
February 2009 – July 2009
(Portland, OR)
Developed and maintained Ruby on Rails web applications. Performed several complex database conversions, an effort that culminated in SQrbL, a Ruby library for simplifying such conversions.
Developer, Zocalo Software
(Full-time employee)
August 2007 – January 2009
(Portland, OR)
Maintained and extended five bespoke Ruby on Rails web applications with a combined total of 3,000+ active users.
[Remote office: company and clients in New York, NY.]
August 2007
[Graduated Portland State University.]
Developer, Teaching Autistic Children, Inc.
(Part-time employee)
October 2004 – May 2007
(Portland, OR)
Developed an Access-based system for entering developmental assessments for clients, then creating custom charts via Excel automation. Also began work on a timecard entry system in Ruby on Rails, to be used for billing and payroll.
[Telecommuting position: company is in Sacramento, CA.]
Software: Outcomes Tracker
(Project)
Version 1 (February 1998 – June 1999)
Created Access 97 database to track pre- and post-test client outcome evaluation scores for social service agencies in Placer County, CA and analyze program impact over time. This version exported data for SPSS (statistical software).
Version 2 (August 2003 – February 2004)
Ported user interface and business logic to Visual Basic 6. Added built-in charting, statistics, and filtering features, which removed the need for agencies to spend over $1,000 to purchase licenses for Access and SPSS.
Version 3 (June 2006 – June 2007)
Rewrote the application for the Web using Ruby on Rails, to enable use of the software by teams in Africa as well as the United States.
April 2003
[Returned to college full-time.]
Database Developer, Personable PC Solutions
(Full-time employee)
April 2001 – October 2002
(Portland, OR)
Added new features, bug fixes and performance enhancements to two commercial Access-based applications for the health-care industry.
[May-July 2003: returned for short-term project.]
Developer, HellerEhrman
(Full-time employee)
July 1999 – February 2001
(San Francisco, CA)
Developed and maintained various departmental database applications using Access, Visual Basic, ASP and SQL Server.

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Education

Post-Baccalaureate Education
Bachelor of Science, Portland State University, 2007
Associate of Science, Portland Community College, 2005

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Community Involvement

Portland Ruby Brigade
(Professional Association)
2006 – present
Code’n’Splode
(Professional Association)
2007 – present
Code’n’Splode is an informal Portland group formed in 2007 to provide peer support to women in technology.
Winner, Iron Geek Ruby
(Event)
July 2008
(Portland, OR)
Entered a live coding competition at FOSCON 2008. (Challenge was to develop a complete web-enabled recipe database in 20 minutes.) With partner Brian Artiaco, won first place.
Presenter, Innotech Portland
(Event)
April 2008
With Brian Artiaco, gave a one-hour “Introduction to Ruby on Rails” presentation. (Presentation and code were put together in two days; the original presenter cancelled on short notice and the conference organizers contacted the Portland Ruby Brigade for volunteers.)
Oregon Game Project Challenge
(Volunteer)
April – May 2008
(Portland, OR)
Coached a team of four Rosemary Anderson High School students in OGPC 1.0.
Bradley-Angle House
(Volunteer)
2001 – 2006
(Portland, OR)
Troubleshooting, Windows installation and website updates.
Portland Access User Group
(Professional Association)
2001 – 2005
Member 2001-2004, occasional presenter.
Sisters of the Road Cafe
(Volunteer)
2002 – 2004
(Portland, OR)
Website updates and training.
Partnership for Safety and Justice
(Volunteer)
2002 – 2007
(Portland, OR)
Proofreading, Windows installation, hardware troubleshooting, Access assistance and website updates.
[PSJ was formerly the Western Prison Project.]

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Buzzwords