Hey! I'm
Jennifer Powell
Frontend focused software engineer with over three years of experience with React, two years with React Native and Redux. I enjoy working cross functionally to ideate and implement user friendly webpages and apps, and I'm looking for opportunities to make a positive social impact.
Values
Integrity
Have a demonstrated track record of outstanding service; a calm, dependable professional who devotes every effort to achieving the best results.
Growth
Always looking to continuously learn and develop my core skills while challenging myself to learn new technologies and development techniques.
Teamwork
I believe we win as a team. I'm a team player who always wants to lend a helping hand and share knowledge.
Accomplishments
Collage Graduate
Graduated from UC Santa Cruz a year early and received cum laude distinction.
CPA Licensed
Passed all four parts of the CPA Exam within two years of graduation.
Hackathon Winner
Won third place out of twenty two teams with our business idea Food drop
Coding Bootcamp
Followed my passion for technology and interest in coding
Education
UC BERKELEY EXTENSION
2019 Certificate in Full-stack Web Development San Francisco, CA Completed intensive full stack web development program focused on gaining technical programming skills in the latest coding platforms as a Full-Stack Web Developer.
UC SANTA CRUZ
2015 Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Economics Santa Cruz, CA Accounting Emphasis, Cum Laude Distinction
Queen Mary University of London
Study Aborad Program - course study included economics and business focus
Skills
Projects
Inspector Otter
Inspector Otter's Word Search Engine is a professional, reliable, efficient word definer and translator. Intended for those new to the area or new English learners, the application also provides lists of resturants near you to check out!
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Nikita's Portfolio
In Progress: Creating personal website for friend Nikita Shah to aid in her job search for Data Analyst roles at a non-profit organization.
Technical Skills:
Stryd
🏃👟Stryd uses revolutionary sensing technologies to measure a runner’s movement through 3D space and track the environmental conditions of the run. This is an application which analyzes and displays key stats about one of a users' runs.
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Ensemble
Ensemble Energy's platform gets large volumes of live data from turbines from multiple windfarms. Technical Challenge to use React along with any other open-source or free library to build a single page dashboard/analytics application.
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LookingBus
Technical challenge to display in real time, a bus' location, route and movement every minute on a google map using 511.org. The speed of the bus between two stops should be displayed in a chart.
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Cloudflare
Technical Challenge using Cloudflare Workers. This project taught me how to write applications with the Cloudflare Workers API, manage and develop them using the command-line tool Wrangler, and deploy them to the free workers.dev deployment playground.
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HEROthon Draper University Hackathon
Draper University’s 2019 HEROthon Hackathon is where 150+ developers, business entrepreneurs and UI/UX designers work in teams to research, create, build and pitch a project around the theme of freedom within 40 hours. Our business idea was FoodDrop which we describe as Airbnb for home cooked meals with an influencer/instagram component. We wanted to give people/chefs the platform to share their home cooked meals and to support their communities. We placed 3rd out of 22 teams.
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Hey Liri
Liri, aka Language Interpretation and Recognition Interface accepts the following commands Liri look up concert, Liri look up song, Liri look up movie, Liri Spotify a random song!'
Technical Skills:
Inspector Otter
Inspector Otter's Word Search Engine is a professional, reliable, efficient word definer and translator. Intended for those new to the area or new English learners, the application also provides lists of resturants near you to check out!
Technical Skills:
Nikita's Portfolio
In Progress: Creating personal website for friend Nikita Shah to aid in her job search for Data Analyst roles at a non-profit organization.
Technical Skills:
Stryd
🏃👟Stryd uses revolutionary sensing technologies to measure a runner’s movement through 3D space and track the environmental conditions of the run. This is an application which analyzes and displays key stats about one of a users' runs.
Technical Skills:
Ensemble
Ensemble Energy's platform gets large volumes of live data from turbines from multiple windfarms. Technical Challenge to use React along with any other open-source or free library to build a single page dashboard/analytics application.
Technical Skills:
LookingBus
Technical challenge to display in real time, a bus' location, route and movement every minute on a google map using 511.org. The speed of the bus between two stops should be displayed in a chart.
Technical Skills:
Cloudflare
Technical Challenge using Cloudflare Workers. This project taught me how to write applications with the Cloudflare Workers API, manage and develop them using the command-line tool Wrangler, and deploy them to the free workers.dev deployment playground.
Technical Skills:
HEROthon Draper University Hackathon
Draper University’s 2019 HEROthon Hackathon is where 150+ developers, business entrepreneurs and UI/UX designers work in teams to research, create, build and pitch a project around the theme of freedom within 40 hours. Our business idea was FoodDrop which we describe as Airbnb for home cooked meals with an influencer/instagram component. We wanted to give people/chefs the platform to share their home cooked meals and to support their communities. We placed 3rd out of 22 teams.
Technical Skills:
Hey Liri
Liri, aka Language Interpretation and Recognition Interface accepts the following commands Liri look up concert, Liri look up song, Liri look up movie, Liri Spotify a random song!'
Technical Skills:
Inspector Otter
Inspector Otter's Word Search Engine is a professional, reliable, efficient word definer and translator. Intended for those new to the area or new English learners, the application also provides lists of resturants near you to check out!
Technical Skills:
Let's make something amazing together.