I'm a Portland-native young web developer incredibly excited to delve into the tech industry. I pride myself on being very career oriented, but am also quite laid back and easy going when time permits. I believe that a happy and fun work environment makes everyone's productivity skyrocket! My current internship is working on a full-stack JavaScript project in Node, Jade, Backbone, and Rivets, but I also am very comfortable with using Rails, Angular, Ember, and have a solid knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and Sass.

While working as a bartender, many of my friends were exiting college with CS degrees or starting their own companies in web development. I bugged them about it enough times for them to tell me a bit about the world of programming, and I found it incredibly interesting. After playing around with some easy HTML and JavaScript pages and enjoying it, I decided to dedicate all of my time into making a career switch and signed up for Epicodus. Along with Epicodus' 40 hour per week course load, I have enjoyed working on pet projects in Sails.js and have started to look into Laravel!

I love to be frequently confronted with challenges. To look at a problem and have no initial idea how to solve it, then eventually tackling that problem with confidence, is one of the best experiences I have ever had. Programming at any level presents those problems on a daily basis, and I feel very fortunate to be stepping into a career where I can be challenged for the rest of my life.