About
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Software Engineer & Full-Stack Developer
A Mac enthusiast with an almost fanatical love for Java, Python, JavaScript, and Swift, I’m driven by creativity, curiosity, and a belief in the power of “yet”.
Polyglot, auto-didact, “reformed” event planner and administrative/hospitality professional turned software engineer, I live for the exhilaration that only comes from figuring out the rhythm of a particularly challenging game (Battletoads? Dark Souls? Flappy Bird?) or that last elusive line of code that threads a program together perfectly (that is, at least, until we bring it to the next level).
In all of my previous roles, I’ve used my extensive background in project management, outstanding organizational skills, and almost supernatural anticipation of my executive’s needs to help increase their productivity and success. These skills, and my lifelong interest in computer science, have acted as a catalyst leading me to pursue programming in an attempt to create software that can replicate what I was able to do as an Executive Assistant. With this goal in mind, I'm ideally looking to branch into the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, cognition-based system design, and data analysis/visualization - industries where I can write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that will help to improve the lives of millions, one "if" statement at a time.
Comics in my apartment
Cups of coffee a year
My first Pontiac
Books read (per annum)
Full-Stack Skills
Quotations: A Selection
First solve the problem; then write the code.
John Johnson
Programmer
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you. I’m happy to share what I can, because I’m in it for the love of programming.
John Carmack
Video Game Developer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
John F. Woods
Game Programmer
A developer is an organism that turns coffee into code.
Anonymous
Software Engineer
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Developer
Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
Chris Pine
Software Engineer
The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!
C-3P0
Human-Cyborg Relations
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Author
The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.
Jim Highsmith
Software Engineer
Life would be much easier if I had the source code.
