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A summary of my skills and experience

Nicole Pellicena

Junior web developer/software engineer. Successful eight year career in Marketing and currently a pupil in all things object-oriented. Studied code at Makers Academy and fell in love with software programming and design. Seeking an entry-level developer role with a focus on TDD/BDD, software craftsmanship and continued learning and innovation.

You can read more about my journey through Makers on my blog.

Code Examples

Project Name Description
[angular-shop] (https://github.com/NicolePell/angular-shop) a responsive single page angular web shop with six clothing categories.
pandapop pandapop! is a social karaoke web player for YouTube karaoke videos. Test driven and built during 2 weeks as a final project at Makers Academy
Table Tennis Tournament A web app designed to manage a table tennis tournament built using Sinatra, PostgreSQL and Ruby
Jumparound A web app built during a 3-day hackathon at Makers using Rails and GMaps. The app is designed to help locate "Sean's" jumper and post sightings on the map.
backgammon (in progress) A strategy board game built in Ruby

Technical Skills and Technologies

Strong Know Touched on
Languages Ruby, Javascript CSS3, HTML5, jQuery IO, Coffeescript, Python, Java
Databases/ORMS PostGresQL, DataMapper ActiveRecord, MongoDB
Frameworks Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS Node.js, Express.js
Testing RSpec, Jasmine, Capybara Cucumber, FactoryGirl, Karma, Protractor Zombie, Poltergeist
Other Version control through Github Heroku deployment, Agile methodologies

Education

Makers Academy: September - December 2014

Highly selective 12 week intensive coding bootcamp.

  • Focussed on pair programming, test driven development, agile practices
  • Object oriented programming, software design
  • Full stack web development
  • Final project: pandapop! - a Rails 4 social karaoke app for YouTube videos created in 10 days.

London School of Marketing

CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing: June 2010 - 2011

University of South Africa

BA Communications: January 2004 - December 2008

Work Experience

Graduate Helper, RedLaw: December 2014 - Present
Support students and the academic team, scaffold pairing, organise breakout sessions

Marketing Manager, RedLaw: January 2012 - September 2014
Responsible for the marketing function including budget management, strategy, planning, sales monitoring and forecasting

Senior Sales & Marketing Executive, CIPD Publishing: February 2011 - January 2012
Develop, implement and analyse marketing campaigns for online and offline publishing products

Marketing Executive, International Bar Association: December 2008 - February 2011
Create and run campaigns for promotion of global events and publications

Marketing Officer, South African Music Rights Organisation: November 2007 - August 2008
Responsible for a wide range of marketing activities web administration and brand strategy

Interests

Kung-Fu, Guitar, Table Tennis

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