Kara Nichols

Web Developer

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San Diego, CA


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619-806-5578


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lnicholskara@gmail.com


About

Full-stack web developer and experienced project manager with a passion for creative problem solving. Enjoys leveraging background in media, sales and client success to provide unique perspectives on how end-users interact with websites and software platforms.


Studied print journalism and political science at USC and spent five years experience working as a project manager/producer at a public radio station. After a career change, rose from being a temporary employee at an e-commerce start-up to managing a 20-25 person team in less than two years.


Now working full-time as an Onboarding Specialist at the real estate tech company Agentology, while studying web development at the Coding Boot Camp. Experienced with Git, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Materialize, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, JavaScript, jQuery and Node.js (including Express, Sequelize and Passport), as well as on-the-job knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, Zapier and JIRA.


Portfolio

Bootcamper Screenshot

Bootcamper

This full-stack, group project is a forum for Boot Camp coding students to communicate with each other. It is built using the MVC model with the Node.js packages Express, Passport and Sequelize.

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Bootcamper Screenshot

Memory Game

This Harry Potter-themed game will test your memory. Click on a new character, but be careful as the squares rearrange each round. The UI is built with React.js and Bootstrap.

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Exercise Pal

This full-stack application deployed on Heroku helps you find a new workout buddy based on your common habits and goals. It is built with Node.js, specifically the Express package, and is designed with Materialize.

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Brews & Beats

This group project calls two APIs - Ticketmaster and Open Brewery DB - to display information about breweries and events taking place within the selected state, city and date range.

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Parks & Rec Trivia

How much do you know about the TV show "Parks and Recreation"? Try to beat the timer in this trivia game, which uses object-orientated JavaScript and jQuery to update the UI dynamically.

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Giftastic

Press one of the buttons at the top of the page to search and display trending gifs from the Giffy API. Then click on each gif to start and stop the animation.

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