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Full stack software engineer with an extensive marketing and project managmeent background who possesses a passion for learning new technologies and developing applications with effective user experiences. Possesses distinct experience of having driven results in a leadership capacity at Apple and currently apprentencing in the Microsoft LEAP program.
Web Technologies and Frameworks: JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, Semantic HTML, CSS,
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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
Empathy plays a huge role in my life. It is my connection to understanding my partner, my family, friends and coworkers. Especially in confusing times. It has help me understand why my parents who are immigrants need to live with me and why I shouldn’t fault them for it. It has helped me understand the frustration and uncharacteristic change of behavior my father exhibits when he battles his dementia and cancer when I am care taking for him. It helps me avoid taking it personally when family members may lash out at me when they are under extreme stress. It helps me understand what motivates and drives my coworkers to take certain actions that can seem unprofessional or personal. It helps me use my coworker’s feedback and perception to better improve myself. It helps me understand why my partner who is a nurse can come home emotionally exhausted and the kind of support she may need.
How does empathy help you build better software?
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What is your greatest strength and how do you know?
Having worked in leadership positions, my responsibilities often include coaching and mentoring others on their personal and professional development. Because of that, I am familiar with a variety of the personal assessments tools that are out there. According to Pairin, my greatest strength is my Entrepreneurial Insight. According to Clifton's Strength Finders, my strengths are Futuristic, Command, Individualization, Analytical, and Developer. According to the Myers Briggs assessment, my preferences lie in the ENTP personality and the list goes on. There’s a lot of insight you can gather from these kinds of assessments, but in my experience there is nothing better than simply reflecting on your personal experiences and writing a personal action plan to learn from them.
That being said, I believe my greatest strength is being able to look at
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The assignments listed here should take you about 1 hour in total.
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The assignments listed here should take you approximately 55 total minutes.
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The readings and responses listed here should take you approximately 65 minutes total.
To start this assignment:
The assignments listed here should take you approximately 40 minutes.
To start this assignment, click the button in the upper right-hand corner that says Fork. This is now your copy of the document. Click the Edit button when you're ready to start adding your answers. To save your work, click the green button in the bottom right-hand corner. You can always come back and re-edit your gist.
Documentation of a language, framework, or tool is the information that describes its functionality. For this part of the practice tasks, you're going to practice digging into documentation and other reference material.
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