Driven and a sponge for new learning, I love projects, no matter their form. More recently, my projects have been focused on perfecting the perfect cheesy grits in my pressure cooker and planning my upcoming trip to Japan in the fall of 2018.
I am seeking a front-end focused web development position, and I have a substantial interest in UX/UI. As a lover of projects, I fancy creating a product from the ground up. I am a planner by nature--Trello and Google Calendar are my LIFE. I'm looking for a work corhort that is collaborative and places an emphasis on direct communication (words are what keep us connected!).
In my free time, I enjoy cooking, reading(particularly historical fiction), and spending time with my friends. I have been married to Matt for 3 years and we have two adorably troublesome cats, Charlie and Valentine. Matt is my trusty travel companion and we're currently obsessed with marking as many places as "visited" on a huge map we have hanging in our hall. In 2017 we visited five Eurpean countries, Cape Cod, and southern California.
Current Netflix obsessions: The Office (I'm a first-timer!) and The Good Place.
Favorite book: The Harry Potter Series
Favorite Movie: Ratatouille
Favorite libation: Depends on my mood. If I'm drinking beer, the hazier IPA, the better. If I'm drinking wine, a good jammy red. If cocktails, French 75.
Dish I'm most proud of: My all-day bolognese!
Before I found code, my day job was as a speech-language pathologist. I've worked mostly in hospitals
with acutely ill adult patients in an inpatient setting. I completed a fellowship year at Rex Hospital
in Raleigh and spent 3+ years after working at Duke University Hospital.
I spent most of my time working with patients on the cardiothroracic surgical ICU and step-down
units and my favorite population to work with were those that just received a lung transplant. My
primary responsibilites included helping those with tracheostomies learn to talk again and patients
who had difficulty eating and drinking safely. You can imagine, it's important to keep food and drink
out of newly transplanted lungs, and after such an extensive procedure, swallowing is often an issue.
My first expereince scoping (my very brave supervisor)! One of the assessments SLP's utilize is a FEES, or Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. We run a small scope attached to a camera and a light source along the base of the nose and just down the back of the throat to visualize the entry to the airway while patients swallow food and liquid.
My coworker and me presenting a poster at the 2017 national conference in LA. We completed a performance improvement project at Duke for assessing patients' ability to safely swallow pills utilizing dextrose-filled capsules (sugar pills!) using FEES.
Technical Skills:
HTML | CSS | Bootstrap | Responsive Design | Materialize | JavaScript | jQuery | React | Git | GitHub | Node.js | Express | JSON | RESTful APIs | Handlebars | MySQL (+Sequelize) | MongoDB (+Mongoose) | Heroku
