KATHRYN RAGUDOS

JUNIOR WEB DEVELOPER

PROFILE

I am a creative individual constantly exploring different vessels to express my ideas and busy my hands. I have about 7 years of experience working on a team to conceptualize, create and craft projects. It has made me a critical thinker, and an efficient worker with the ability to manage projects within tight deadlines. My endeavors to transition into tech as a junior developer are driven by the opportunity to create meaningful applications that can solve problems, or promote creativity in others.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

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OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

BARISTA Starbucks June 2013 - August 2015

» Demonstrated excellence in customer service and hospitality, utilizing invaluable interpersonal communication skills and increasing the customer retention rate.

» Managed time efficiently and displayed poise under high-stress situations maximizing the productivity of the team.

OUTDOOR CLIMBING GUIDE Southern Terrain March 2016 - Present

» Demonstrates standard climbing techniques and conducts informal inspection of climbing equipment used on a daily basis, specifically climbing ropes, shoes, harneses, belay devices, and carabineers, resulting in 0% incident reports.

SOCIAL MEDIA INTERN GoSite Local June 2013 - September 2013

» Managed the online presence for local small-scale companies, on social sites including, Facebook and Google Plus, effectively driving brand awareness, engagement and traffic to social media pages.

» Provided administrative support to management, scheduling and conducting onboarding appointments, and increasing company’s clientele by roughly 40%. PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Cognella Academic Publishing May 2015 - Present

» Executes creative designs including layout, color selection, and illustrations for printed materials, raising the product value of the final printed edition.

» Provides training support on Adobe software including Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign amplifying the overall productivity of the production team by about 30%.

» Effectively manages and improves the efficiency of multiple projects and tasks (by creating a streamlined workflow process), while improving the percentage of projects completed by roughly 25% on or before their deadlines.

» Provided support by troubleshooting software and printing issues, such as file formats and file preparation, reducing the time spent on technical issues weekly. FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER August 2013 - Present

» Creates design concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts.

» Takes client’s vision for their product or company and translates it to meaningful messages about the company’s identity, achieving 100% of client satisfaction. DEV BOOTCAMP GRADUATE, WEB DEVELOPER August 2016 - October 2016

» Dev Bootcamp is an 19-week intensive training program for aspiring web developers.

» We’ve learned Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS, Test Driven Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Javascript (AJAX, JQuery), Git and Source Control, and Agile Development.

» Built web applications using Sinatra, Rails for the backend as well as HTML/CSS, Ruby, and Javascript (AngularJS and JQuery) for the front-end.

» Efficiently worked in teams to deploy projects using Test Driven Development, agile-workflow, and consistently providing Actionable, Specific, and Kind feedback. KARAOKE-ROLLETTE

A mobile application backed by a Rails

API, Ionic, and AngularJS allowing

users to save song titles to their song

list, create a party with other users and

append their list of songs to the party’s.

A randomly generated combination of

songs and users add a twist to the next

karaoke party.

TECHNOLOGIES:

» Ionic and Sass- Custom styling was

added on top of the default styles

from the Ionic Framework.

» AngularJS and Ionic - A native

mobile user experience was built,

enabling app builds for Android, iOS

and the web.

GROUP SORT

A Rails backed application created for

Dev Bootcamp that allows teachers to

input any given number of students and

generate groups optimized for unique

pairings for a six week period of time.

TECHNOLOGIES:

» Rails 5 - The latest version of Rails

was used to implement the backend

procesess.

» Sass/Bourbon - All styling was

written in Sass, using custom styles,

as well as leveraging mixins from

Bourbon.

» Slim - For fast rendering and elegant

code, slim was implemented.

» JQuery and Ajax - To speed up

the user experience, JQuery and

Ajax was implemented to reduce

the amount of full page reloads

throughout the site.

PROJECTS

DESIGN SKILLS: Illustrator, Indesign,

Photoshop, After Effects

FRAMEWORKS/LIBRARIES: AngularJS,

Sinatra, Bootstrap, Sass

LANGUAGES: HTML5, CSS, Javascript,

Ruby, Rspec, Capybara

SERVICES: Github, Heroku

SOFT SKILLS: Agile Workflow,

Engineering Empathy, Pair Programming,

Customer Service

GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN Existence May 2013 - August 2013

» Corresponded with the design team to develop and organize logos, newsletters and advertisements for ongoing campaigns, increasing the teams productivity level by about 25%.

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