Resume

Senior Developer & Data Analyst

Community Legal Services | Philadelphia, PA | Jan. 1, 2025-Present

Working with the Development & Communications unit to deliver reports, data anaysis, and tools to the attorneys and paralegals of CLS to help them in their mission to to fight poverty, challenge systems that perpetuate injustice, and change lives through cutting-edge advocacy and exceptional legal representation. Projects are built with Django, Dagster, DBT, R, pandas, and LegalServer.

Developer & Data Analyst

Community Legal Services | Philadelphia, PA | Jan. 1, 2024-Dec. 31, 2024

Working in the Digital Innovation lab to deliver reports, data anaysis, and tools to the attorneys and paralegals of CLS to help them in their mission to to fight poverty, challenge systems that perpetuate injustice, and change lives through cutting-edge advocacy and exceptional legal representation. Projects are built with Django, Docassemble, R, pandas, and LegalServer.

Software Engineer

Brooksource | Philadelphia, PA | July 1, 2023-Dec. 1, 2023

Worked as a consultant full time at Comcast helping to build and launch the Iris tool built in Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Unity, and Angular.

Junior Software Engineer

Element 84 | Philadelphia, PA | Feb. 1, 2023-May 1, 2023

Element 84 acquired Azavea. I continued to work on the Civic Applications team working on client services projects to build and maintain geospatial web applications built in React, Django, MapBoxGL, and PostGIS for governments, non-profits, and corporations.

Software Engineer

Azavea | Philadelphia, PA | Dec. 1, 2021-Feb. 1, 2023

I worked on the Civic Applications team working on client services projects to build and maintain geospatial web applications built in React, Django, MapBoxGL, and PostGIS for governments, non-profits, and corporations.

Apprentice Software Engineer

Azavea | Philadelphia, PA | May 1, 2021-Dec. 1, 2021

Spent 6 months with a mentor extending my knowledge of React, Django, and geospatial tools like PostGIS and MapboxGL.js with reading materials, hands-on 'breakable toy' projects, as well as independent and supervised client work. Besides my mentor, I also worked with a small cohort of two other apprentices sharing what we worked on each bi-weekly sprint and helping to bridge each other's skillsets.

Junior Front End Engineer

Urality | Philadelphia, PA | Feb. 1, 2021-May 1, 2021

Built new features for and maintained a community mapping and digital placemaking web application and content management system using React Hooks, Bootstrap, MapboxGL, and various NPM modules.

Software Engineering Immersive Fellow

General Assembly | Philadelphia, PA | May 1, 2020-Aug. 1, 2020

Learning frontend and backend programming alongside frameworks and languages like Javascript, jQuery, React, Python, and MongoDB. Building and deploying a portfolio of functional projects that all address various needs.

Shop Manager

Cycles PHL | Philadelphia, PA | April 1, 2017-Jan. 1, 2021

Repaired and sold bicycles in a community-oriented shop in North Philadelphia. We also provided adult camping programming and fix-your-own-bike workshops. Our shop catered to local neighbors and university students. I worked on bicycles, kept the shop in order, and ran programming like our Cycles Campout overnight camping trips and Bike Salon, our do it yourself repair program. We helped adults and youth alike keep rolling and to enjoy their bikes.

Service Counter

Bicycle Revolutions | Philadelphia, PA | Feb. 1, 2016-Jan. 1, 2017

Trip Leader

Bike & Build | Providence to Seattle | Dec. 1, 2015-Aug. 1, 2016

I co-led a group of 29 young people on a bike tour from Providence, RI to Seattle, WA to raise money and awareness for affordable housing. We rode roughly 4000 miles, built in 13 different cities, and raised roughly $60,000 to give away in affordable housing grants.

Intern

WHYY | Philadelphia, PA | Sept. 1, 2015-Jan. 1, 2016

Served as a production assistant on the WHYY Friday Arts show providing field production assistance, transcribing interviews, and editing shorts and extras for the web.

Video Producer

Freelance | Philadelphia, PA | Oct. 1, 2013-April 1, 2020

I have been making digital content like video, photography, and comics from a few different outlets. My video works have been a variety of works ranging from music videos to talk shows to fiction stories to vlogs to documentary style shorts

Rider

Bike & Build | South Carolina to Santa Cruz | May 1, 2013-Aug. 1, 2013

n the summer of 2013, I and 27 other young people crossed a continent by the power of our own legs. We saw the United States at a pace, scale, and perspective that few have or will ever have. We crossed plains and deserts, climbed hills and mountains, and built homes along the way. As a team we rode 4,250 miles through 13 states, raised $154,895 for affordable housing, ate countless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and built for a collective 3,584 hours with Habitat for Humanity.

After School Program Facilitator

CORA Services | Philadelphia, PA | July 1, 2012-Feb. 1, 2016

With CORA Services I worked at 3 different schools in different capacities working with a variety of students, age-groups, and lesson materials. I have worked with all grades between Kindergarten and 8th grade and have taught acting, better behavior, science lessons, photography and film lessons, a variety of crafts, and even managing a public group profile for projects with my current group. I have also helped all of my students in countless hours of homework help and different tutoring sessions.

Diplomas Now Team Leader

City Year Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | June 1, 2011-June 1, 2012

I served as a Diplomas Now Team Leader for City Year and will lead a team in addressing the Drop-Out Crisis at a Philadelphia school. I will be in charge of tracking the data for my team, building and maintaining relationships with service partners, collaborating with a School Transformation Facilitator from the Philadelphia Education Fund and a Site Director from Communities in Schools in helping to create a beautiful environment for our students to work in and to tutor and mentor students to help make sure they are on-track and inspired to graduate high school.

Corps Member

City Year Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | Aug. 1, 2010-June 1, 2011

My corps year, I served on the TEVA Pharmaceuticals Team at Thurgood Marshall Elementary. I followed a class of 8th graders from class to class providing classroom support, tutoring, behavior and attendance coaching, and helping to make sure my students had everything they needed to work hard in school. I also created and ran a project to have all the students at Marshall write letters to the President of the United States, helped to run our after school programming, played at recess with my students, and helped to organize many assemblies including a play at the end of the year.

Technical Director

Shawnee Playhouse | Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA | Dec. 1, 2009-April 1, 2010

Intern

Shawnee Playhouse | Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA | Oct. 1, 2009-Dec. 1, 2009

Server

Siamsa Irish Pub | Stroudsburg, PA | Oct. 1, 2009-Aug. 1, 2009

Server

Five Star Staffing | Philadelphia, PA | Oct. 1, 2008-Aug. 1, 2009

River Room Server

Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort | Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA | Sept. 1, 2007-June 1, 2009

Cabin Leader

Brainerd Presbyterian Center | Philadelphia, PA | June 1, 2007-Aug. 1, 2007

Server

Aramark | East Stroudsburg, PA | Sept. 1, 2004-Aug. 1, 2005