Hi I'm Jen
BDR at SkillGrader. Ex-Engineer. Olympian. Startup Enthusiast.
After years of building software, I realized my true passion lies in getting it into the hands of users. I've traded my IDE for a CRM and haven't looked back.
I bring a rare mix to the table: the technical depth of an engineer, the grit of a franchise owner, and the discipline of an Olympian (Team Canada, 2008). I love the scrappiness of the startup world and thrive on the challenge of net-new business.
Offline: 🥒 Pickleball player, 🍷 Wine enthusiast, 🍦 Ice cream connoisseur.
Modern web applications, including frontend and backend infrastructure.
Landing pages, portfolios, blogs, ecommerce sites.
I'm a Toastmaster! Speech delivery, presentation, writing, or if you just need a speaker at your event.
Install, take down, and store your holiday lights. Or, permanently install Celebright LED lights.
Drive net-new business for a platform that replaces subjective, paper-based assessments with digital tools. Help departments spot skill gaps through our dashboard that captures and analyzes scores. Leverage technical background to connect with prospects, qualify leads, and build pipeline in a fast-paced startup environment.
Represented a portfolio of wines to private liquor stores and restaurants. Built relationships with buyers, conducted product tastings, and managed accounts across the territory.
Co-owned and operated a holiday lighting franchise with my brother. Managed all aspects of the business including client relations, scheduling, and finances while personally handling installations. Balanced technical execution with entrepreneurial responsibilities.
I worked with the Baseball Operations team. We built tools to visualize baseball data, scouting reports and player performance.
Splitting time between the Risk Team and Payments Team, I built out integrations and the infrastructure to help immigrants send money back home.
As the first hire at an early stage startup, I was a do'er of all things. I bounced from building software, meeting with clients, customer support and managing projects. We built software to support municipal governments.
Conducted research and development to optimize performance and durability in baseball and softball bats across various youth leagues.
Competed in the Japanese Professional Softball League for two seasons against some of the best competition in the world.
Long tenured National Team member. Represented Canada at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and competed in four World Championships in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. Bronze medalist at the 2016 World Championships and gold medalist at the 2015 Pan Am Games.
Web Development Bootcamp
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
I wanted to create an application to read podcasts to me, but also highlight the words as they are being read. AssemblyAI’s API was used to transcribe the podcast and apply timestamps to each word. The words are then highlighted in real-time as they are read. Unfortunately, the transcription and timestamps were not as accurate as I hoped.
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Baseball is a sport of data, lots of it! Players and coaches can leverage the use of the data collected to improve their performance. This project visualized pitcher data to indicate success rate as a function of speed and pitch type.
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As a wine sales rep, I needed to know how many kilometers I was driving each day so I can record it for my taxes. I vibecoded a moble app in Flutter to track my GPS location, and record the cumulative distance in a Google Sheet.
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The Japanese Professional Softball League is always looking for foreign players to play in the league. However, language barriers and geography makes it difficult to recruit and find players who are available to play. Players created profiles and provided video to show their skills, and coaches were able to view the profiles and contact the players within the app through a chat room equipped with a translator. The project made it easy for Japanese coaches to view players who are available to play for the season and communicate with the players they were interested in.
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Leveraged off the shelf LLM models to create a multi-label classification model. The model was trained on a dataset of 1000+ text feedback samples and their corresponding quality scores. The model was then used to predict the scores of a new set of text feedback, a process that would take hours to do manually.
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Started as a Toastmaster’s project, this podcast tells the “Olympic Story.” The trials, tribulations, blood, sweat and tears of what it takes to reach the pinnacle of sport.
A simple Ruby on Rails application that queried and stored IP addresses and their corresponding locations. The application used the IP Stack API to get the location of the IP address. The application also used PostGIS to store the location of the IP address in a spatial database.
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NCAA softball statistics are notoriously disparate and fragmented. This project scraped data from the NCAA website in order to consolidate and draw conclusions from the data that was available.
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Completely client side web application that uses the SWAPI API to display Star Wars characters. The application is built using Angular 2 and leverages the power of RxJS Observables to handle the data.
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A common problem with Toastmasters clubs is the delegation of roles for each meeting. Often, long email chains are used to sign up for the week’s meeting which can become hard to keep track of. This project created a central location where members could go and drag and drop their name into a role in advance.
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Local governments collect traffic data at regular intervals throughout the year. With this data, our public servants are better equipped to make decisions surrounding allocation of resources towards the city’s infrastructure.
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