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Cate Rauschenberger

Full-Stack to Front End Web Developer in Richmond, VA

Sites and Projects

Needsupply.com

Front End Developer on Agile SCRUM dev team for this Magento e-commerce site. Coded editorials and features to comp spec, worked in custom content management system, and generally maintained the site through sweeping personnel changes.

Tech:

Magento (PHP), Laravel, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SQL

Need Supply Co.

Totokaelo.com

Front End Developer on Agile SCRUM dev team for this Magento e-commerce site. Coded editorials and features to comp spec, worked in custom content management system, and generally maintained the site through sweeping personnel changes.

Tech:

Magento (PHP), Laravel, JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SQL

Totokaelo

Jammin' on the James

Jammin' on the James is a lindy hop dance workshop event that happens in Richmond, VA every October. I'm doing a complete redesign of their site to bring it into the 21st century for this year's event. It employs some fun plugins like animate.css, morphtext, sticky.js. It is designed to be fully responsive, for desktop and mobile devices. At the moment, it is running on a Sinatra framework.

Tech:

Ruby, Sinatra, JavaScript, Bootstrap, custom CSS, HTML

Jammin' on the James | GitHub Repo

Speak

This is a free, online alternative to the sometimes prohibitively expensive Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices that allow nonverbal children (and adults!) to express themselves. It was our capstone project and something I hope to keep working on in the future.

This non-traditional web app relies heavily on Amazon Polly (a text-to-speech AWS), click event handling, UX design, and user customizability.

Tech:

Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, AWS, Bootstrap, custom CSS, HTML

Speak Site | GitHub Repo

DevKitchen

This restaurant-concept site was created for a mock client who wanted to crowd-source recipes for her restaurant. It's a Ruby on Rails app in which logged-in users can submit recipes to be featured on the restaurant’s menu by the owner. The owner can create and post the menus right on the site. I handled the menu creation feature, user registration and log in, and group management.

Tech:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Bootstrap, custom CSS, HTML

DevKitchen Demo | GitHub Repo

Experience

Front End Developer // Need Supply Co. May 2018 - Feb 2019

Maintained and coded for separate e-commerce sites of needsupply.com. and sister-company totokaelo.com. Technologies included

  • Magento (PHP), Laravel, JavaScript, Vue.js, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SQL

Coded editorials and features to comp under tight deadlines, more than doubling editorial content output for Totokaelo. Kept sites afloat (as one of two junior devs plus a manager) after lead devs for both left. Organizationally, used:

  • Basecamp • Agile Workflow (on Jira) • Git Version Control (Github and Bitbucket)

References available upon request.

Full Stack Web Developer Apprentice // Dev Bootcamp July 2017 - Nov 2017

Participated in daily programming challenges and weekly team projects in an immersive web development program, creating web apps using:

  • Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SQL, AJAX, Amazon Web Services, RSpec, Jasmine, and more

Work and projects focused on:

  • Object-Oriented Design, Test Driven Development, Git, Pair Programming, Agile Development and Workflow, and Engineering Empathy

It was truly a life changing experience.

Production Coordinator // Atlanta, GA June 2015 - Sept 2017

Worked with various producers, clients, and agencies to plan and implement smooth and successful print and commercial shoots, tackling many, varied tasks, including but not limited to:

  • Transportation, Catering Logistics, Craft Services, Creating Call Sheets, Formatting Production Books, Talent Releases, Casting Calls

Clients included:

  • Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, BCBS of Alabama, Delta, John Deere, Crowne Plaza, Special K, Elanco, Fresenius, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Zaxby's, Lifetime, Hasbro, TNT, Cox, Burger King, Capitol One and more

Account Executive // The DiCarlo Group May 2014 - June 2015

Helped drive ad sales for Time, Inc. publications, specifically Travel + Leisure and DEPARTURES magazines, in the Southeast, communicating between advertisers, their agencies, and the NY marketing team throughout the media planning process

  • Tracked and updated SalesPLAN (Time's own Salesforce product) to reflect accurate revenue forecasting
  • Composed weekly territorial reports, participated in weekly sales meetings, and generally assist the Sales Manager and Account Director

Guide // Fresco Tours, CETA Tours May 2012 - May 2016 (seasonally)

Led 10-day tours on the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail in Spain, for groups of 10+ adults from all over the world; led overnight trips through Madrid, Andalucía, and Barcelona for American high school groups

  • Coordinated and handled payment for transportation, meals, entertainment, and hotels for groups
  • Handled cash disbursements and accounting for each tour
  • Wore many hats: Gourmet picnic preparer, Spanish interpreter, storyteller, problem-solver
  • Designed a Fresco Tours media kit and other collateral, contributing copy and photography

Education

The University of Georgia B.B.A. International Business
B.A. Spanish Language

Honors Program, Magna cum laude, National Merit Scholar, 3.83 GPA

Skills

  • Ruby
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Magento (PHP)
  • Vue.js
  • SQL
  • RSpec
  • Jasmine
  • REST API
  • AWS
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • CSS
  • SCSS
  • HTML
  • Bootstrap

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