When I was in sixth grade I had my first exposure to technology, Xanga. Back in the day I would tinker and "consulted" classmates on how to customize and edit their pages using html code, sooner than later, our Xanga sites were riddled with custom colors, photos, scroll bars and all the bells and whistles. This prepared me for my next greatest adventure, Myspace. Now, I was able to implement music, customize top friends lists and even eliminate boring profile sections that were deemed uncool. I thought my skills of customizing websites was top notch, but then, I became competitive.
Star Wars Galaxies recently launched and I joined guilds and started player versus player combat, where I started to write my own macros to use items and run abilities and program software to improve team commuinications to perform a synchronized chorus to evaporate players. Soon after, I would rewrite code in mods to change the entire user interface of the game to be more effective in battles and evenutally discovered my greatest foe in gaming, mundane resource collecting and leveling. I would customize and integrate software programs to automate the entire process so I could happily sleep at night knowing I will never have to manually click the mouse to collect a resource ever again.
Since then, I have never stopped learning and creating with technology, I started automating work tasks, analyzing investments, researching data for a variety of life goals and helping improve non profits.
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I had to describe myself in one word it would be resourceful, I like to take problems, break them into smaller bits and resolve each individual problem. Sometimes, I tend to have to MacGyver a solution, creativity has helped me climb over tough obstacles.
I am curious by nature and learning, once I read a book called The Medici Effect which essentially is taking different skills and interests that when combined end up feeding into my career one way or another. I'm what they call a T-shaped individual.
I pay close attention to my code’s readability. Of course, meeting a deadline is one of my top priorities and I will use all my skills and resources available to make it work, but after I will spend time commenting and organizing my work. Working in a clean and organized enviroment is not only more comfortable but also usable, I want you to feel welcome around my code.
Clean, consistent, readable and maintainable code. It is great when a feature works or is usable, but it is greater if it stays that way, regardless of who is working on it.
I’m excited to work on new projects or spend time fixing older ones, because I learn something new every time.
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’m a team player, with my background in computers and my passion for creativity, I feel comfortable interacting with both the technically oriented people of the team as well as the artistically oriented ones. I will always go the distance to help my team.
My communications skills are excellent. I’ve always taken time to teach others about technology and its ability in the workplace, for non-profits and personal life. This experience has made me feel comfortable at presenting ideas in creative ways so that everyone can understand them.
Taking on difficult challenges helps develop new skills and deepen the knowledge of current ones. I have lead projects and collaboration with smaller start-ups to large companies.
I love to cook, so be on the lookout for the next potluck.
