Victoria Chuang
I am a recent graduate from Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco who loves learning and building things that make people happy. I am looking for development opportunities with a company that is adventurous and hungry. Let's team up and make something beautiful and meaningful!
Employment
Dev Bootcamp - Web development student (Oct 2014 to Feb 2015)
- 19-week web development intensive
- Spent over 1,000 hours learning Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, agile practices, good git workflow, test-driven development, and pair programming
San Francisco Department of Public Health - Project coordinator (Mar 2014 to Jul 2014)
- Led weekly nutrition workshops for elementary school-age children and performed data collection and analysis to better understand how to improve education content and effectiveness
- Maintained relations with partnering organizations and translated educational and presentation material from Chinese to English
- Wrote press releases and proposals regarding the department's stance on public health issues and voting results of various organizations
No. 246 New York (remote) - Merchandising consultant and copywriter (Dec 2013 to Feb 2015)
- Maintained relationships with buyers from Oak NYC, Neiman Marcus, and various luxury boutiques to monitor their inventory of our products
- Edited and approved press releases and worked with the head designer to develop stories behind each collection
Projects
Rapsum
- Rapsum is a Ruby faker gem that generates rap lyrics. While creating dummy seeds for various tests and databases, I was uninspired by Ipsum Lorem and decided to create a version that I would find fun to use. My priority was to maintain clean, readable code and good documentation.
Beacon
- Beacon is an event-sharing app built on Ionic and Ruby on Rails. We utilized agile practices and emphasized the importance of clear communication and a good git workflow. I was responsible for building the Rails server and documenting the API.
Skills
- Ruby
- Javascript
- Ruby on Rails
- HTML5
- CSS3/Sass
- Git
- Test-driven development
- SQL
Education
New York University - B.S. Nutrition 2013
Contact me
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