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Brandon Graves

Enjoys turning ideas from scratch into fully-fledged products that people love using. Grew up in Bali, Indonesia, lived in LA, and has traveled extensively around the world. Is excited to join a team full of diversity with a work culture where continuous learning is embraced. Certainly, closed rooms full of robot-like people is not his thing.

Education

Makers Academy (July 2015 - October 2015) - Europe's #1 coding boot camp.

  • Methodologies: OOP, TDD, SOLID, MVC, DDD
  • Languages: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Node.js, Angular.js
  • Testing: Rspec, Jasmine, Protractor, Karma, Capybara, Cucumber

##PROJECTS

Project Name Description technologies
Vary Pixel An Angular website for collaborative pixel art. Angular, JavaScript, NodeJs, Express, Parse, Socket.io.
OnTap A pub finding app created with Angular created during a two day hack-a-thon. AngularJs, JavaScript, Karma, Yelp API, HTML5, CSS

Past Work Experience

Visual System, An L.E.D-based art collective from Paris doing world class light shows across Europe and Internationally ----August 2014 - May 2015

  • Set-up numerous projects from the nuts and bolts to electrical/wiring in numerous French cities.

  • As well as being the only native English speaker I worked on the social media and promotional side for clients outside of France.

Nihiwatu, A highly awarded 5 star eco-tourism resort on the island of Sumba in Indonesia. (add dates)

  • Trained and worked in various departments from Food and Beverage, to Water Sports and Guest Relations, all under highly qualified General Managers

  • Worked as a Free-dive instructor for guests of Nihiwatu Retreat. In this position I was able to double the breath holding ability of over 50 of Nihiwatu’s surfing and diving guests.

Skills

Agile Methodologies Advocate

  • 12 weeks of programming using purely the AGILE methodology.

  • Strong understanding of why it is useful and necessary for development.

####Pair-programming

  • 12 weeks of face-to-face pair experience with diverse partners (culture & age).

  • Online using technologies such as Google Hangout and Screenhero.

Communicative

  • Strongly recommending my teams to run retrospectives to keep communication strong and everyone informed on the challenges we had and how we could make improvements for the future

  • Constantly pushing my teams to have stand-ups twice a day to make sure that everyone is aware on what is happening across the project. As well sharing ideas and solving any major blockers that anybody is experiencing.

Version control

  • Experienced and firm believer in version control and its many benefits.

  • Always using good practice such as having development branches, branches for each issue a team member is working on and only merging to master once pull requests are checked and approved by other team members.