As someone who has always loved learning new skills and building things from scratch, I soon became inspired by people around me who were learning to code. After 18 months in a venture support role, where I took the time to assimilate myself with the tech industry, I decided to join the General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive to switch careers and embark on a journey into web development.
I believe that true learning is being creative and I look forward to being able to continue my career of learning and growing my skills in web development.
Click on the image to read about why I chose programming...
As Event Coordinator, I was part of a team who implementing a successful program of more than 60 events per year, I reported to the Event Director and worked on high-profile author events across numerous publishing houses. The role consisted of writing compelling event copy for all marketing materials to be published in print and online, creating and sending out effective press releases whilst building relationships with national and regional media contacts. I was responsible for overseeing creative design of promotional material and ensuring all items are proofread.
My role was logistical support for 8 venture teams, acting as a one-contact person for venture staff across all cohorts including engineering, product, growth, strategic/experience design. I worked closely with the GM and Partner on ventures where I coordinated large stakeholder meetings, ensured all staff had the correct access to tech systems and liaised with key clients throughout the venture life-cycle.
I took the plunge and joined the General Assembly Software Engineering Immersive course which was a hugely rewarding challenge. With all of the new technical skills I’ve gained throughout the course, I’m excited to finally be able to realise the multitude of project ideas that have started to fill up my iPhone notes. On top of these skills, I learnt an enormous amount about myself and what I’m capable of achieving in such a short period of time. I’m excited to take these new skills into a web development role so that I can continue this new life-long career of coding and learning.
A week-long solo project building a game with pure JavaScript, CSS, Flexbox and GitHub in the theme of Mexican wrestlers inspired by a recent trip to Mexico.
A two-day pair coding project using React.js on the frontend that consumes data from existing APIs: DarkSky and TFL. Implemented React-mapbox-gl, Webpack, AJAX, JavaScript (ES6), HTML5, Bulma, SCSS, GitHub. My main focus on this project was building the map on the page, consuming the varying data from both APIs and ensuring that data fed through correctly. This app will help cyclists make a decision whether to cycle based on current weather and pollution levels as well as show them Santander bike spots local to them.
A week-long full-stack project in a group of four people, using Node.js, MongoDB/Mongoose and Express on the backend and using React.js on the frontend. In this project I built the seeds file and worked on the code for the basket. Implemented Webpack, AJAX, JavaScript (ES6), HTML5, Bulma, SCSS, GitHub. This is a prototype for an e-commerce merchandise store.
A week-long full-stack solo project building the backend database with Python/Postgres and consuming data on the frontend with React.js. Implemented Webpack, AJAX, JavaScript (ES6), PostgreSQL, Flask, HTML5, Bulma, SCSS, GitHub, React Select. As this was a solo project, I planned all wireframes, ERDs and relationship schemas before setting out to build the project. I used Trello to organise and prioritise my time. This is a community-based application for users to find their next read based on their travel destination.