Benjamin Crane
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SUMMARY A recent graduate of General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive Program in San
Francisco with a focus on full stack web development. Currently seeking opportunities to
increase my competency in back end development as well as continue to learn and grow!
SKILLS Ruby on Rails SAS
JavaScript SQL
Unix Tableau
HTML Software Documentation
EXPERIENCE General Assembly 11 / 2014 - 02 / 2015
Web Developer in Training
12 week full time immersive program focusing on JavaScript and Ruby/Ruby on Rails, but
used a litany of other tools: AngularJS, PostgreSQL/SQLite, Node, NPM, RSpec, HTML, CSS,
Bootstrap, JQuery, Ionic, Firebase, etc.
Projects:
Anecdata: https://anecdata.herokuapp.com/ An app for users to post and answer
quantitative questions. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery/AJAX, Postgres, Omniauth
Voluntinder: https://voluntinder.herokuapp.com/ Collaborated with a group of four people
to create a volunteering app. Users can create a profile and are shown upcoming volunteer
events near them and can save them to a list. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, jQuery/AJAX,
Postgres, Google Maps API
CatFancier: https://catfancier.herokuapp.com/ All JavaScript. Uses The Cat API to grab
random cat pictures. Users can 'like' or 'dislike' pictures and can pull them up later.
Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Postgres, The Cat API
Fannie Mae 04 / 2012 - 08 / 2014
Risk Analyst
Primary duties were analysis, reporting, and backend data management, but I also led larger
projects around data quality and the creation of a research database for my group. Used SAS
and SQL to manipulate data and Tableau for visualization.
CompuGain Corporation 10 / 2010 - 04 / 2012
Business Analyst
Ran and optimized backend data loads and led internal compliance efforts for a Fannie Mae
analytics team
EDUCATION General Assembly 2014 - 2015
Full Stack Web Development
The Graduate School, DC 2011 - 2014
Math and Programming
St. John's College 2003 - 2007
Bachelor's, Liberal Arts
Intramural Sports Team Captain (Go Druids!)
INTERESTS Statistics, programming, data, game theory, sports, politics, history, archeology