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Rolando Navarrete
Full Stack Web Developer
Los Angeles, CA | (650) 440 1412 | [email protected] | @digital_mafioso| Portfolio
Objective
A passionately curious developer looking to join a highly collaborative team that
empowers each other to take some risks and pushes each other to write well tested, well
architected code.
Student Projects
Social Smarts
Github Repo | Live Site
Collaborative Ruby on Rails Project /AngularJS Project. Social Smarts is a Twitter client
designed to help small business owners improve their social media interactions. It
displays users’ tweets with supplemental data such as Klout scores, geolocation, and
response tracking data. Additional features include real-time data updating and timeline
searching.
Focus: Consuming and Providing APIs, JavaScript, OAuth,Google Maps API, AJAX, VPS
Deployment
America Complains Github Repo |Live Site
In this individual Ruby on Rails project I took open governemnt business complaint data
and plotted out on a map where all the complaints came from. The app uses the Google
Places API and Yelp API to give more even precise information than what the original
data provided.
Focus: Consuming and Providing APIs, JavaScript, OAuth,Google Maps API, AJAX, VPS
Deployment.
Fresh Treads
Github Repo | Live Site
Collaborative Ruby on Rails Project. Fresh Threads is a retail platform for custom
clothing vendors. This application features: a vendor management system, user
notifications with background workers and multi-store administration for vendors.
Focus - AWS, TDD, UX/UI, Redis, PostgreSQL, Capybara
Skills
Technical
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Heroku, PostgreSQL, TDD,
AWS, Git, Twitter Bootstrap, Sketch 3
Personal
Fluent in Spanish
Volunteer Work
Student Mentor
Turing School
Denver, CO
11.2014 – 01.2015
Setup weekly sessions with new students to help them understand some of the
fundamentals of programming.
Work Experience
Brave Maids – Co-Founder/Designer/Developer/Marketer
06.2013 – 06.2014
Started an on demand maid service. In charge of creating branding, developing the web
application, and responsible for accounting.
Biggest issue was finding and keeping trustworthy teams to represent the company. By
setting up a rigorous interview process and by introducing attractive employee incentives
the company was able bring down employee turnover rate by 50%
La Flor Blanca Restaurant – Manager/Online Marketer
03.2009 – 08.2014
Working with food and beverage staff to ensure proper food presentation and proper
food-handling procedures. Ensuring product quality and great service.
Tackled a lack-lustre web presence for the business, by setting up a marketing campaign
on yelp, the business receives an average of 114 new client inquiries per month, resulting
in a 30 percent increase in monthly revenue.
Culver City Cyber Café – Co-founder and Computer/Mobile Phone Technician
03.2006 – 08.2009
Started a small cyber café where customers could surf the internet or could get their
computers serviced.
Profit margins from fixing computers weren’t where they needed to be to cover monthly
expenditures, so I had to force myself to become knowledgeable in more profitable
services. I Learned how to repair iphones and game consoles, which brought the
company up to profitability.
Education
Turing School of Software & Design - Certificate of Web Application Development
07.2014– 01.2015
Denver, CO
Seven month immersive web application development with Ruby and JavaScript.
University of California Los Angeles - Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Minor in Film
05.2011 – 05.2012
Los Angeles, CA
Courses include: Cold War Chicano Literature, Latin American Economic policies,
Introduction to Buddhism, Women's Studies: Feminist Perspectives on Women and
Society, Mexican Film and Society