J. Amanda Mark
Full-Stack Web Developer
UX Engineer
Team Lead Manager

Dedicated Innovator, Skillful Facilitator, Servant Leader — I help weave individuals into teams and ideas into deliverables.

About Me
  • 8 years working professionally as a Full-Stack Web Developer and UX Engineer
  • Built functional Chess App in Ruby on Rails with international Agile Team
  • Professionally trained in Web Development and Algorithm and Data Structures foundations
  • Built FM radio station with two experienced partners, full Class-A, CP to live in 11 months
  • 14+ years as Network Specialist and Server Administrator for mid-size construction company
  • UI/UX pioneer, testing usability and browser ↔ back-end integration with CA Opal Integrator
Skills
  • Coaching focused on Aspirational Goals, Career Growth, and Continuous Learning
  • Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS
  • Ember.JS, Ember Fastboot, Express.JS, Next.JS
  • Web Components, Ember Components, Stencil.JS
  • Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL
  • TDD and testing, focused on QA, UX, UI and efficient workflow
  • Content Curation — I find and arrange content and design elements to craft styles and themes
  • Team Leadership, Project Coordination and Facilitation, Peer-mentorship, Collaboration
  • Microsoft server and desktop products: AD, Exchange, Office, Visio, Sharepoint
  • DB admin, maintenance and connectivity with ODBC: MSSQL, MySQL, AS/400
  • Firewalls, VPNs, communications and data security, Checkpoint, SonicWALL, RSA, SSO
  • Networking, OSI troubleshooting, Cisco IOS, routing, switching and security
  • VMWare, vCenter, Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services, VirtualBox, Vagrant
  • Virtual, Remote, VPN, Mobile and Physical — I have worked in and supported all environments
Web Dev
    eFolder and Axcient
    Nov 2017 to May 2024 — Denver, Colorado and Remote
  • Focused team coaching on Aspirational Goals, Career Growth, and Learning
  • Deployed major feature builds with weekly releases across 1-4 codebases
  • Completed major Authentication solution migration with MFA and multiple IdPs
  • Crafted Ember.JS Application features and Fastboot (Express.JS) API endpoints
  • Advised Design Team on component functionality and Atomic Design builds
  • Built and Enhanced Design-Compliant Ember Components
  • Developed data-tag standards for built-in Testing and Automation
    Scribliotech, Inc.
    October 2016 to May 2018 — Remote
  • Weekly video Scrum, Trello, Slack channel, pair programming
  • QA, bug-fixes, feature build-outs, feature planning, refactoring
  • DevOps working with AWS architecture
  • Stack: Ruby, Rails, AWS, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Foundation, Knockout.JS
  • Tools: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Docker dev environment
    Professional Training, Full-Stack Development
  • Basic CRUD build-outs following standard Rails conventions (with and without scaffolding) for mailers, validations, image uploading on AWS S3, online payment, and nested RESTful routes
  • HTML, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, some JS with JQuery and TDD
  • Worked through algorithm and data structure challenges
IT
    Newport Industries
    August 1998 to February 2013 — Rolling Meadows, Illinois
  • Network Specialist (Managed full-service network and data center across 4 site WAN)
  • Server Administrator (Grew data center from single server running back office to multi-site AD forest running 20+ servers and appliances with data redundancy, CDP and DR)
  • Project Manager (Coordinated multiple data migrations and data center virtualization to VMWare running on SAN)
  • Communications and Security (Managed user and data security and access for local and remote sessions)
  • Technical Documentation and Training (Crafted interactive documentation and training for trainers and users)
    Computer Associates Sarasota
    October 1996 to August 1998 — Sarasota, Florida
  • QA Lead (Created and maintained test scripts and projects, coordinated stress testing, tested technical docs)
  • UX advocate (Built and tested proof-of-concept demos and conference demos and scripts)
  • Liaison to MIS (Maintained QA testing lab and managed clean test environment)
  • Tech Support Escalation team (resolved advanced trouble tickets, provided patches for enterprise clients)
    Professional Training
  • SonicWALL CCSA — Secure Remote Access, August 2009
  • SonicWALL CCSA — Network Security, April 2009
  • Completed 6 week professional training for Cisco CCNA, 2000
  • Completed introductory and advanced training for Citrix Metaframe 1.8 and XP
  • Completed introductory and advanced training for Checkpoint Firewall 1
Diversity
    Wolfpack Media, LLC
    February 2012 to June 2017 — Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Remote
  • Research and Development (data gathering and analysis, strategic planning, marketing)
  • Content generation, editing and production (Adobe Cloud)
  • Project planning and facilitation (Sharepoint)
    Eco-Drip Irrigation Supply, Inc.
    September 2014 to July 2015 — Altus, OK
  • Daily operations (Microsoft Dynamics and Sharepoint)
  • Social Media generation and management (Facebook)
  • IT liaison (branch desktop support and company-wide Ring Central admin)
    Education and Professional Training
  • Trained and certified in Real Estate Sales, Licensed through 2010, No longer current
  • Completed coursework for Natural Sciences concentration at New College of USF, Sarasota, FL, 1993 — 1997
  • Graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, 1993

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