Resume
Web and Mobile developer with five years of experience building performant applications. Proficient in JavaScript, React, React Native, Redux, Firebase, and Git. Always taking on new technological challenges.
Projects
Oct 2020 - Dec 2024
- Utilized my skills with React Native, Redux, Firebase and Git to build mobile features for a non-profit news aggregator app.
- Participated in weekly meetings with teammates.
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
- Utilized my skills with React Native, Firebase, and Git to build mobile and back-end features on an AirB&B-type app for political campaign staff and volunteers.
- Participated in pair programming sessions and weekly meetings with teammates.
May 2019
Mobile Flashcards
- Created an iOS and Android mobile flashcards application using React Native.
- Leveraged Redux and AsyncStorage for data management.
- https://github.com/devrmateo/mobile-flashcards
Apr 2019
Would You Rather App
- Built online version of popular “Would You Rather” game from scratch.
- Leveraged React for UI and Redux for state management.
- https://github.com/devrmateo/would-you-rather
Experience
Oct 2020 - Dec 2024
- Built mobile features as a developer for a non-profit news aggregator app.
- Collaborated with teammates to ensure quality and timely updates to the app.
- https://optout.news/
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
- Built mobile and back-end features as a volunteer developer in service to a political campaign.
- Collaborated with a team of seven developers in an agile environment.
- https://github.com/CodersForBernieSanders/BernieBnB
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
- Communicated with potential voters through community canvasses and on the phone in both English and Spanish.
- Lead community canvasses by organizing a staging area and training volunteers.
May 2019 - Oct 2019
- Provided individualized technical support through code reviews and one-on-one virtual calls with students.
- Served as an individual mentor to a cohort of up to fifty students.
May 2017 - Jun 2018
- Provided timely and quality website management for preschool website built with WordPress.
- Initiated and developed enrolled-families section of website for thirty parent users.
- http://lagoonplaygroup.com/
Jan 2018 - May 2018
- Made phone calls to potential voters in support of the organization's candidates.
- Attended phonebank with other volunteers.
Jan 2012 - May 2018
- Taught introductory and heritage Spanish classes and collaborated actively with colleagues in organizing college activities.
- Provided instruction for over fifteen sections of web-hybrid Spanish classes, as well as thre fully online courses.
Jan 2013 - Dec 2016
- Taught introductory Spanish classes and worked with colleagues to promote departmental activities and initiatives.
- Employed best teaching practices in more than ten class sections, including several evening and weekend courses.
Aug 2009 - May 2011
- Taught introductory and intermediate Spanish classes and worked actively with colleagues to ensure a smoothly functioning department.
- Incorporated technology in innovative and creative ways for more than fifteen class sections.
May 2006 - Aug 2009
- Performed all website development and provided assistance to faculty and graduate-student users.
- Supported a department of thirty faculty users and sixty-plus graduate students.
- http://spanish.arizona.edu/
May 2006 - Aug 2009
- Collaborated with D2L Support Team to facilitate online instruction for graduate-student teachers.
- Gave presentations and created online tutorials for a cohort of sixty-plus instructors.
- https://d2l.arizona.edu/d2l/loginh/
Aug 2004 - Aug 2009
- Taught introductory and intermediate Spanish classes and conferred with graduate-student colleagues regarding best teaching practices.
- Developed lessons and administered assessments for more than fifteen class sections.
Aug 2003 - May 2004
- Taught introductory and intermediate Spanish classes to undergraduate students.
- Developed lessons and provided quality instruction for twelve class sections.
Aug 2002 - May 2003
- Taught introductory and intermediate Spanish classes and collaborated actively with other graduate-student instructors.
- Developed lessons and gave presentations promoting the university's study abroad program to more than fifty undergraduate students.
Aug 1999 - Jun 2001
- Taught introductory, intermediate and honors Spanish classes and participated actively in departmental and school-wide activities.
- Developed curriculum and provided instruction for over three hundred students in a two-year period.
Education
Jun 2019
Nanodegree – ReactUdacity
Dec 2018
Sep 2016
Aug 2009
Ph.D. in SpanishThe University of ArizonaTucson, Arizona
May 2003
Master of Arts in SpanishBowling Green State UniversityBowling Green, Ohio
May 1999
Master of Arts in Teacher EducationUrsuline CollegePepper Pike, Ohio
May 1995
Technical Skills
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- React
- React Native
- Redux
- Firebase
- Git
- PHP
- Yarn
- Command Line (Terminal)
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Functional Programming
- Responsive Web Design
- Github
- W3C Accessibility
- Gulp
- Bootstrap
- WordPress
- Node Package Manager
- AJAX
- Styled Components