Education

• May 2013
  Graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Computer Science. Course work included Artificial Intelligence, Computer Organization, Programming Abstractions, Data Structures, Systems Programming, Social Networks, Computer Networks, Natural Language Processing, Database Systems, Game Design, Algorithms, and Computational Theory.

Entrepreneurial / Work Experience

• 2015 - Present
  Working in coordination with UI designer and backend API developer, developed fantasy soccer app Togga for iOS and Android, using Ionic Framework.
  Also re-wrote front-end website in AngularJS by abstracting API calls away from PHP-serving single page app to a fully static frontend that communicated with API. Setup static file hosting to serve CDN-cached frontend, implemented Git-automated deployment system for back and frontend.
• May 2015
  Developed Women's World Cup bracket-picking mobile app that grew to over 100,000 users in less than a month. Assisted in architecting and developing Node.JS backend that processed Opta feeds and calculated scores and leaderboards, providing users with realtime updates within the app using Firebase.
• 2014 - 2015
  Developed and designed an AngularJS mobile application built using the Ionic Framework, compiled in Cordova, with Firebase and Node.js on the backend. Learned AngularJS best-practices, how to integrate AngularJS with Firebase (using the AngularFire library), and how to test and debug on both iPhone and Android mobile devices. Also wrote a Node.js server script that performs maintenance on Firebase as well as sending push notifications.
• 2014 - Present
  Setup and customized various Wordpress blogs as a freelancer, meeting client requirements for straight forward, responsive websites. Setup a Varnish cache to reduce load on small VPS box, optimized images and used caching techniques to accomodate a cost-effective hosting solution.
• 2013 - 2014
  Developed and launched Need Text, a tool to help students find their textbooks easily, by searching for their classes. Technologies used included CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP, XCache, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Used Facebook advertising to target specific campuses.
• 2005 - Present
  Developed Yugioh Card Maker as a full-stack developer, optimized SEO and Adsense revenue while updating and optimizing MySQL database and front-end with dedicated / cloud servers to scale with demand as site grew to over 400,000 members. Actively administrate the community forum and work with a team of moderators. In 2012, developed and hired an administrator for Magic Card Maker; a sister site to YCM, and in 2014, did the same for Pokémon Card Maker.
• 2007 - 2009
  Worked as a Web Developer at The Data Collaborative during the summer, developing with Salesforce, Cold Fusion and PHP.

Other Development Projects

• January 2016
  Designed and developed Every Quote Counts!, a political meme generator using a Markov-chain algorithm on a corpus of political speeches and debates. Running entirely client-side, all images are generated in Javascript using the HTML5 canvas to ensure scalability.
• 2009 - 2013
  Developed and moderated Obie Talk, a widely-used anonymous message board at Oberlin College. Developed a Bayesian sentiment analyzer in PHP for a Natural Language Processing class at Oberlin to help automatically moderate posts and comments on Obietalk.com.
• 2012
  With 3 other Oberlin students, created a physics-based game in C# using Unity for a Game Design class.
• 2011
  Developed a playable version of the game Rush Hour in HTML and JQuery, and an algorithmic solver for the game in PHP. Project was for an Artificial Intelligence class.
• 2005
  Developed an educational computer game in Dark Basic, selected as a contest winner and sold as part of a software suite on Amazon.

Film / Comedy

• 2013
  Directed and edited a 20 minute horror-comedy film for college credit.
• 2012 - Present
  Launched a satirical blog at Oberlin and worked as a co-writer.
• 2012
  With 3 other Oberlin students produced a documentary about dining service workers at the college. Worked as lead editor using FCP and Soundtrack.
• 2007-Present
  Started a sketch comedy group called Left Knee Spoons; primary roles included directing and editing films using Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, and After Effects. Also produced many other short films independently and with friends at Oberlin.