William Mena

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TECHNICAL PROJECTS

Script Splitter - Blog

Web App that splits your video script into appropriately sized subtitles.

+ Developed Rails 5 API to hold all scripts and the rest of the backend data.

+ Implemented React/Redux for fast creating and updating of each script/subtitle

+ Formed a Preview of your script/subtitles on the homepage before saving to the user profile.

+ Soon to have: Ability to export a subtitle file for easy importing into your favorite Video Editing software. Roommate Assistant - Github - Blog

Dedicated to helping you manage tasks with your roommates. One place for all your chores, tasks and shopping lists.

+ Built an API using Rails and AJAX to increase the speed of accessibility for all of the users

+ Created friendships or connections between users using self referential associations, in the style of facebook friends.

+ Implemented SQLite with ActiveRecord to handle the projects backend

+ Designed a property function, using Rails and AJAX, to allow users to assign chores within their household has_many_recipes - Github - Blog

Social Media website where you share and discover recipes with your friends.

+ Built a Sinatra application with a NokoGiri gem to scrape websites for their Recipe information

+ Created a Twitter style relationship using self referential associations, where one user can follow another

+ Bootstrapped page for simple page structuring and navigation

+ Upgraded the user data security using the Bcrypt Gem World Science Festival, Manhattan, New York

Assistant Editor/Media Management, Oct 2017 - Current

+ Animate their original graphics in After Effects for viewing on their social media

+ Edit longform festival content for online viewing

+ Manage media requests for yearly World Science Festival

+ Develop small applications for companies smaller scale festivals Kornhaber Brown, Brooklyn, New York

Permalance Assistant Editor, March 2016 - Oct 2017

+ Selecting best takes and assembling episodes for the shows PBS Spacetime, Infinite Series and Origin of Everything

+ Ingesting and transcoding footage in a well organized manner to keep server clean

+ Rotoscoping video to clean and hide objects in the final edit eContenido-Telemundo, New York, New York

Assistant Editor/Motion Graphics/Production Assistant, July 2015 - January 2016

+ Archiving/Organizing all footage and graphics in a well organized manner

+ Creating short explainer style animations/motion graphics for use in the final cut of the show

+ Created rough edits for the main editor and edited multiple segments for final use EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

EDUCATION

Udacity - 2018

+ Grow with Google Android Basics NanoDegree - Java for Android Flatiron School - 2017

+ Full Stack Web Development, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript(React) online program University at Buffalo - Buffalo, New York - 2015

+ Bachelor’s Degree : Media Study: Video Production New York City College of Technology - New York, New York - 2011-2013

+ Entertainment Technology/Computer Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Ruby, Rails, SQL, Javascript, React, Sinatra, Adobe [Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator] Full stack web developer, using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript (React/Redux), to make our daily lives more organized and efficient. With a background in video editing, I am able to work quickly under pressure and build stories that connect with the customer.