DoughRise is a portfolio product of Divercity and is a financial budgeting app that empowers users to take control of their finances. DoughRise is made with millennials in mind and offers an easy way to review your budgets and track your spending on the go — all in one place. With DoughRise, you can connect to Google Sheets and easily import or export all of your budgets.

At my time at DoughRise, I was part of a team of 6 people where we used Agile Methodologies (Scrum) to dynamically bring DoughRise to life. I collaborated with the Project/Product Manager, UX/UI designers, and another Software Engineer in order to create and deliver a working product. At DoughRise, I was responsible for building responsive, dynamic user interfaces for the web and mobile applications using React, React Native, Google Sheets API, and Express. I also helped create and maintain a user database utilizing RESTful API architecture and implemented user authentication utilizing Node.js, OAuth, Passport, Express, Google Cloud Platform, and MongoDB to securely authenticate users and improve overall security of the app.

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Flatiron School is an immersive software engineering program with a focus on Fullstack development with both Ruby and JavaScript, including Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, PostgreSQL, Node.js, HTML, and CSS. Emphasis on pair-programming and collaboration.

Simon & Schuster is a global leader in Publishing and is the third largest publisher in the United States. I was part of an immediate team of 3 people and a larger team of around 50 people. During my time as Subsidiary Rights Associate at Simon & Schuster, I collaborated with the VP and Director of Subsidiary Rights to sell foreign and domestic/serial rights to S&S titles.

I was responsible for crafting and pitching serial excerpts to targeted magazines, newspapers, and online outlets in order to help garner interest in our books. I worked across teams (Contracts, Editorial, Marketing, Publicity, Ad/Promo, Art, and Production) as well as with a network of literary agents, co-agents, and foreign publishers with the goal of creating the largest readership base for a book as possible, ensuring the profitability of our books. I also oversaw language-rights and serial excerpt contracts from arranging to signing and worked with foreign publishers and agents to keep foreign editions supplied with production materials and on track for publication.