About Leah
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I’m Leah, a professional web developer dedicated to creating websites that are functional, elegant, and usable. I have experience with both front-end and back-end development, and have put a heavy emphasis on UX throughout my programming career. I endeavor to not only deliver a product that is efficiently coded and easily maintainable, but also to deliver a product that is easy to use and furthers the business goals it was developed for.
Professional Experience
Business Operations Specialist (Feb 2022-Present)
Key skills: JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, SQL, HTML5, CSS, git, UX, public speaking
I have been working in a technical role, supporting and enhancing JavaScript applications that enable collaboration for our organization across the world. I implement key functionalities for our internal tools and collect feedback from various groups and contributors across the company.
- Delivered new tool to streamline the process of mapping skills to courses
- Process originally required three individuals coordinating to fill out a spreadsheet
- Created a tool that would automatically notify the correct individual by email
- Turned a process that took weeks into one that is completed in days
- Integrated Luxon into web application to support scheduling across time zones
- Led move of codebase to version control with git and GitHub
- Developed tool to search employee data tailored to the Global Resource Sharing Team
- This replaced a retired tool the team previously relied on
- Integrated email notifications into internal scheduling tool
- Present technical features of tools to internal stakeholders
- Provided training on tools from our codebase
- Diagrammed processes for business
- Created failure notifications for automated processes
- Debug errors identified by users
- Example: Debugged error that prevented deleting data from our web page and wrote script to correct data in database that had previously been entered incorrectly
- Collect and implement user feedback on applications they use to complete their jobs
- Skills leveraged: JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS, git, UX
Senior Associate Technical Consultant (Feb 2020-Feb 2022)
Key skills: SAS, SQL, public speaking
- Graduated from the Technical Enablement Academy (20 weeks of training in various SAS technologies)
- SAS programming
- SAS Viya installations
- Visual Analytics
- Regularly gave presentations to management on projects I completed
- Processed data for customer use in collaboration with a team
- Test applications with QA team to ensure applications met customer requirements
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