About Me
✨ professional career
Feb 2018 - Current: Staff Engineer @ Aetna
⚡ I work on Aetna member features & our design system component library.
Sept 2017 - Jan 2018: Freelanced while traveling
⚡ Did some work for startups & the Texas State Athletic Trainers Association.
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017: Senior Front-end Developer @ Kalkomey
⚡ I worked on the custom content management system & licensing system including a storefront.
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015: Software Engineer II @ Join'em (startup)
⚡ Built the UI for a social e-commerce web app including the living styleguide and a custom reusable pattern library.
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014: Front-end Developer @ Apollo Interactive
⚡ Maintained and created new web pages for clients such as Wingstop, Visionworks, Stage Stores, Cache Creek, Curves, Extraco Banks, Studio Movie Grill, and Einstein Bros Bagels.
🔎 education/internships
- 2013: Graduated from UT-Dallas w/a BA in Emerging Media & Comms (focus on UX), minored in Philosophy
- 2011-2013:
- Spring + Summer 2013: Online Performance Marketing web dev internship
- Fall 2012: KHYI 95.3 FM web design/dev internship
- Winter 2011 - Spring 2013: designer/dev for UT-Dallas RecSports
- Fall 2011: Atomic DC web internship
- 2011: Graduated from Dallas College w/an AAS in Arts & Tech (UX + CS)
- 2008: Graduated high school
personal
👩🏻💻 self-taught teen highlights
- 2008: made $80 building a custom MySpace layout for a local band
- 2003: created a punk rock fan site on tripod writing my first ever HTML/CSS
travel history
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currently reading
"little women" by Louisa May Alcott- "cien años de soledad" by Gabriel García Márquez
"the art of war" by Sun Tzu"reclaiming conversation" by Sherry Turkle- "grokking algorithms" by Aditya Y. Bhargava
"jurassic park" by Michael Crichton- "please kill me: the uncensored oral history of punk" by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain
"the lost world" by Michael Crichton"the hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien- "a storm of swords" by George R.R. Martin