Everything You Need to Know About Adhesives for Cosplay, Crafts & More
C&T Publishing, 2024
Motivation, Productivity, and How to Get Past the Tough Spots for Prop and Costume Makers
self-published, 2025
Sew with 100+ Materials from Tricky to Tame
C&T Publishing, 2026
upcoming craft book
C&T Publishing, 2027
I teach recurring sewing and foamsmithing classes to both adults and young makers. Hosts includes conventions, Craftcation, libraries, Cosplay America, and maker spaces.
Game Con Canada and Cleveland ConCoction
2022 - 2025
I planned the entire cosplay competition and showcases for both conventions for multiple years. This included vetting and hiring judges, filtering contestant applications, writing emcee scripts, and planning the day-of schedule. The contests themselves were day-long affairs involving 50+ people and very tight judging and show schedules, all of which I coordinated.
Girls Who Code
September 2016 - August 2018
I taught semester-long programming and web development classes to middle and high school girls while emphasizing an empowering, energizing environment. Curriculum was a combination of modified and self-developed.
Sogeti, USA
December 2016 - August 2018
I acted as coordinator, leader, and go-to for national cloud training and certification within Sogeti USA. I created a weekly training newsletter, organized certification efforts, and created curriculum for boot camps and learning drives.
Girl Develop It Dayton
August 2015 - December 2018
I developed and taught classes for several GDI classes of up to 20 adult coders (who were often complete beginners). All course materials were self-developed (course structure, slide decks, practice content, etc.). I was also the group photographer; my photographs were used for local and national social media and marketing.
Code.org's Hour of Code
December 2015 - December 2018
I taught programming classes to young people (ages ranging from kindergarten to high school) during Hour of Code week, which aims to get as many students as possible coding for just one hour. These classes are both a formal foundation to coding and an intro to life as a software developer.
TECH CORPS Ohio
June 2011 - August 2011
I taught multiple one-week sessions to elementary and middle schoolers in programming, robotics, and web development. These were full-day classes including meals, recess, formal instruction, and student presentations. I was responsible for five classes of 20 students at a time. We used Alice, Scratch, and LEGO NXT programming languages and hardware.
Sogeti, USA + PNC Bank
July 2012 - present
At my client, on a team of just two other core developers I created and deployed a high-impact, high-visibility product which saves 700 hours of work per month. The product takes the loan decisioning process from 40 minutes to 55 seconds. The product is being marketed to numerous lines of business within the client.
For this project, I transitioned from Excel development to a full-stack web developer, learning and immediately utilizing in day-to-day work the tools and languages C#, Angular, SQL, MVC, Kendo UI, Bootstrap, GIT, Linq, SoapUI, and others.
At my job I act as a leader and technical consultant even within development teams. I consistently receive compliments on my swift responses and project completions.
I am a member of the Consultant Advisory Board, a committee responsible for being a liaison between consultants and management. On the CAB, I am particularly involved with our community service outreach responsibilities, and have personally organized five corporate volunteer events.
I am a permanent member of a sprinting Agile team.
Cutler Scholars Program
September 2010 - May 2012
I maintained, updated, and redesigned the scholars website. I created print, digital, and online designs. I was responsible for maintenance of all machines and (Access) database (worked as an IT go-to).
Ohio University
September 2008 - May 2012
Amazon Web Services
May 2016
Microsoft Certified Professional
March 2013