Professional Experience

QA ANALYST, ARTSY GEEK **/2018 - PRESENT

• Managed QA of all web development projects; coordinated with the UX and engineering teams throughout bug lifecycles.

• Increased efficiency of QA processes by 40% by creating detailed test flows to automate and simplify testing.

• Improved company on boarding by modernizing workflow documentation.

• Streamlined cross-disciplinary collaborations by clarifying language of task-flows; decreased overall jargon use to ensure transparent, clear language for future team members.

• Spearheaded all social media, email, and web content for partner business, Lunar Ladies.

• Conceived of and implemented sales funnel and advertising campaigns for Lunar Ladies, increasing the conversion rate by 15%.

Technologies: WordPress, Asana, Manual QA, E-commerce QA, Dropbox, Google Suite, Skype, JavaScript, CSS, BrowserStack, Bug Lifecycle, WordPress Development, Test-flow Design DESIGN FELLOW, IDEO COLAB 06/2018 - 08/2018

Worked in multidisciplinary teams to explore how emerging technologies might be used to create solutions for Ideo’s clients.

• Weekly sprints to solve challenges with current business models, products, or UX design flows.

• Improved product development for all teams by adding context to the relevance of experiences of economically and racially diverse communities.

• Expanded research to include small business owners, resulting in developing a low-cost, collaborative, and community-based solution for one client (a large automotive companies).

• Presented solutions that incorporated blockchain technologies based on Ideo’s Design Thinking methodology.

• Performed early qualitative research and synthesized user insights into low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes to reduce iteration in later product development stages; improved efficiency, flexibility, and reduced development time.

• Pitched provocations, hypotheses, and solutions throughout iteration phases to gather contrasting insights from technical specialists and to keep solutions on the cutting edge of developing technologies.

• Documented the design process from problem to provocation/solution, contributing to the ongoing improvement of Ideo’s Design Thinking methodology and education services. Technologies: Google Suite, JavaScript, CSS, BlockChain Development, UI Design, Information Architecture, Product Development, Research, Adobe Photoshop, Flinto, Research, Usability Testing, Sketch NODE DEVELOPER, STLR ENTERTAINMENT 10/2017 - 04/2018

• Spearheaded the development of backend functionality for artist management and booking website.

• Developed a node API that returned each individual artist’s content in JSON format using Express and PostgreSQL.

• Ensured successful development process by writing and implementing API testing using Mocha and Chai. Debrena McEwen

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www.linkedin.com/in/debrenamcewen/

• Redesigned artist content workflow; proposed and implemented a low-cost and long-term solution of using WordPress to allow artists to create, add, update, and delete content for their individual pages while maintaining design consistency.

• Implemented Hubspot; streamlined sales and social media management; increased efficiency by 70%.

• Continues to provide value as an ongoing sales and marketing consultant. Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Node, Express, Git, Github TDD, Mocha, Chai, Jasmine FRONT END DEVELOPER, CODEWALKER INSTITUTE 12/2017 - 03/2018

• Managed the development process of hiphopcaucus.org; facilitated discussion among stakeholders to achieve consensus on site goals, hierarchy of visitor actions and key performance indicators.

• Developed www.hiphopcaucus.org website including selection and customization of WordPress theme and plugins.

Technologies: CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Git, Scrum, Divi FULL STACK JAVASCRIPT APPRENTICE, THE LEARNER’S GUILD 09/2016 - 04/2018

• Studied Full Stack JavaScript Development at the now defunct Learner's Guild Bootcamp.

• Worked in developer collective that trained engineers in full stack JavaScript development via an apprenticeship model under the mentorship of professional senior developers.

• Pair-programmed with other learners and senior developers on Full Stack projects.

• Worked on over 30 different full stack JavaScript projects.

• Contributed to the design iteration of The Learner’s Guild curriculum and business structure that led to the re-launching and re-funding of the startup for another 11 months. Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Node, Express, Git, Github, TDD, Mocha, Chai, Jasmine, REST API Fundamentals, REST / HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), Object Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, Pug, Handlebars, Scrum Education

QUALITY ASSURANCE AUTOMATION ENGINEERING, AUTOMATION SCHOOL 07/2018 - PRESENT Technologies: REST API Fundamentals, REST / HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), Node JS, Postman / Swagger for API testing, JSON, JavaScript, Selenium UI Automation fundamentals, HTML, DOM (Document Object Model), CSS Selectors

Portfolio

Github: https://www.github.com/teqnickels

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“No More Hidden Fees”, https://medium.com/ideo-colab/no-more-hidden-fees-1533488780f6

“The Un-Censorable Internet”, https://medium.com/ideo-colab/the-un-censorable-internet-d2c786a1083a

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