Jen Looper

• Lead team currently of Developer Advocates in Academic Advocacy, interfacing with many other student-focused teams, including sponsoring, coaching and mentoring advocates
• Manage Museums and Libraries Pilot program on Academic Team, interfacing with many museums and leading a cohort of advocates in activities
• Work with University Relations and other internal groups to deliver appropriate content in venues such as hackathons and workshops
• Develop Microsoft Learn online paths to teach technologies
• Led team to develop 'Web Development for Beginners' and 'ML for Beginners' online courseware, 24 lessons for faculties and boot camps (aka.ms/webdev-beginners and aka.ms/ml-beginners). Templatized this educational system for all advocates to use.
• Originally led the Regional team of Developer Advocates for US/LATAM/Canada to oversee regional activities
• Contribute as Individual Contributor to ensure delivery of OKRs, including blogging, speaking at conferences, technical demos, webinars and presentations

Founded a worldwide nonprofit that scaled rapidly. Our mission is to increase diversity in the front-end developer community by hosting workshops for women, often partnering with conferences worldwide. We have chapters from Colombia to Japan.

• Manage staff and govern chapters worldwide
• Create and manage workshop content and logistics
• Work with conferences to manage their diversity ticket distributions
• Blog at dev.to/frontendfoxes
• Help chapter leaders manage activities
• New in 2021: Free boot camp for women, teaching 11 week cohorts worldwide (North America, LATAM, Europe, Africa) in groups of 20 students with 5 mentors and 1 paid instructor

I was a senior member of the Developer Relations team, where I advocate for NativeScript on the Mobility Team.

• Manage the 50-member Progress Developer Experts program (http://de.telerik.com), bringing it back from defunct to a fresh and vibrant community.
• Moderate the NativeScript Community Slack Channel comprised of 9000+ developers, including creating periodic app contests
• Created the annual NativeScript Ambassadors program - 20 Ambassadors led by Developer Experts under my direction for a summer cohort to grow the NativeScript community
• Present 3-4 Product-based webinars per year
• Attend 20+ conferences per year, managing booth and giving talks and keynoting
• Attend and speak at local meetups in Boston and fly to others, as requested
• Lead Boston Vue.js Meetup
• Write regularly for Front-End Foxes, Telerik, Progress and NativeScript Blogs, and blog externally

Worked on all front-end development of all affiliated World Singles sites.

• Rewrote websites to support Responsive Web Design
• Optimized RWD sites and wrote custom mobile app for dating sites
• Bugfixed sites, introducing screenshot-based unit testing strategy
• Completed regularly-scheduled maintenance and front end enhancements
• Created first mobile app for the company using PhoneGap (Android, iOS) with Parse.com backend and custom plugin

Managed all aspects of web development departmental workload for client-facing and internal websites

• Wrote code enhancements for legacy codebase, including rewriting shopping cart from scratch
• Wrote complex SQL queries for financial reporting
• Introduced coding best practices to company, ensure quality control, introduce BSA and PM standards
• Worked with in-house and remote teams of developers, including offshore contractors
• Wrote API enhancements to provide hooks into internal corporate systems
• Managed upgrades of systems, including full migration from SQL 2000 to 2008 database
• Managed integration of SalesForce.com CRM, including architecting database views for consumption by SalesForce

Front end development team lead and individual contributor

• Led team of onsite and offshore developers in Flex development for extremely large, modular, web-based insurance application, largest ever undertaken by company
• Architected core module for this project (Underwriting) using Flex and Cairngorm with java communicating with backend
• Earned Star award (corporate recognition) for team lead skills; my Irish team also earned awards for our core contribution to the project
• Produced estimates for work, project plans, code reviews, prototyping, proofs of concept, wireframes, and usability analyses of front end work as needed, and contribute to team’s codebase
• Acted as liaison between business and developers to produce usable web apps following standard Usability protocol
• Successfully introduced use of Mach II framework to support Cold Fusion development

Developed, managed, and maintained frontend, middleware, and backend for achievementtech.com

• Redesigned marketing web site using standards-compliant css
• Incorporated marketing web site into Content Management System, involving extensive use of .cfcs and custom code rewriting for several hundred pages’ content
• Built company intranet
• Rewrote Sales Reporting Tool, upgrading legacy systems for company intranet used by SalesForce from Oracle 8 to 9i and ColdFusion 4.5 to MX 6.1
• Recommended software purchases and performed installation of software for company systems
• Maintained systems and wrote documentation for company web products

Created all front end, middleware and backend content for the web sites, including all graphics and Flash movies with ActionScript

linking front end to backend database

• Developed and manage intranet and Content Management System
• Managed interns and outsourced content creation
• Created, managed and maintained all aspects of e-commerce web site, including customer care, testing and debugging
• Managed interns and outsourced content creation
• Created, managed and maintained all aspects of e-commerce web site, including customer care, testing and debugging
• QA tested all online content

Designed entirely new web presence for ClosingCounsel.com, working with marketing team

• Created new content and GUI for the company's site and clients' sites
• Troubleshoot front end applications
• Performed complex graphic design tasks
• QA tested frontend and backend of sites regularly

I will be lecturing for a course in web development in the Fall of 2021

ThingLearn is a community and a curriculum. With projects hosted on Hackster.io, the goal of ThingLearn is to engage young learners in the code and science behind the magic of the Internet of Things. Make an LED light up, and learn exactly why it's behaving as it is.

My most popular and oldest app is Practice Buddy, helping music students practice their musical instruments and check in with their teachers.

This viral 24-lesson, 12-week free online courseware has helped many new developers start their career in web development, with over 28K stars on GitHub and 150K unique visits.

This new free course on GitHub includes 12-week 25-lesson and 50 quiz and teaches classic ML with a strong applied focus, using Scikit-Learn. 8K+ GitHub stars in a week.