Hi, I'm Vanessa.

I'm a software engineer & web developer.
I snowboarding, running, & learning.

Skills

I'm a well-rounded, hard-working team player with 6 years of experience throughout the software development life cycle. I'm dedicated to efficiently solving problems and providing an exceptional user experience through thoughtful web application design and development.

I write uncluttered and understandable code, as well as the requirements specifications, software design, and user documentation to go along with it.

I have experience with a variety of frameworks, libraries, and tools on both the frontend and backend.

Languages

  • JavaScript (ES6)
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • PHP
  • C#
  • Java

Databases

  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Backend

  • Apache
  • Node.js
  • IIS

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Tech Wizards 2011 - Now

Lead teams of engineers on the design and development of training web applications used by the US Navy Communicate with engineers, graphic artists, instructional systems designers, and testers to plan, design, develop, test, and improve applictions Build full stack applications by writing well-organized, maintainable code in JavaScript and PHP using a variety of frameworks and runtimes such as Bootstrap and Node.js Rapidly create application prototypes to confirm project feasibility and transition the prototypes to fully developed applications Meet with clients to determine software requirements, demonstrate software, and discuss feedback on applications Write and review technical documents including Software Requirements Specifications, Software Design Documents, Training Requirements Documents, Software Users Guides, Software Installation Instructions, Project Proposals, and White Papers Deploy and maintain web applications on remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances Facilitate and provide support for beta tests of training applications with US Navy students

Application Developer Scholar
University of Mary Washington 2010

Designed and implemented an iPhone application which displayed upcoming concerts in the user's local area Delivered a formal presentation of my work to fellow scholars and professors

Education

Computer Science, B.S.
University of Mary Washington 2011

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