**I am NOT currently open to opportunities. Please DO NOT contact me for open positions.** I'm an entrepreneur turned web developer - passionate about building beautiful and meaningful things. I love discovering efficient solutions for complex problems. Some projects I'm particularly proud of include recreating concert experiences by aggregating user uploads from specific shows, building a custom e-commerce application from scratch, putting together a money transfer service with Stripe, and building a SaaS product for companies to run meetings. Currently, I'm a full stack engineer at Bloc, an online education company helping thousands of students learn software development skills with mentor-led courses in web development, mobile development and design.

Software Engineer @ Build out new features, solve problems and optimize performance for the Bloc web application, helping scale it to handle several courses, hundreds of mentors and thousands of students and alumni Create analytics dashboards that help our teams of product managers, lead mentors, program coordinators and curriculum developers identify problems and opportunities so we can continuously improve the experiences of students and mentors Contribute to open source projects, such as the Bloc morphing gem, and Bloc blog Use test-driven development to ensure code is production-ready and maintainable Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, JS Data, Postgres, Heroku, Redis, AWS, Webpack From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCoach @ Helping students on their journeys to become full stack engineers by pairing, doing code reviews, giving talks and more. From September 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 1 month) Ruby on Rails Developer @ Built and deployed 6 full stack web applications in three months using Ruby on Rails Worked with project management and designer to define project scope, implement user stories and respond to client feedback Utilized popular gems and libraries such as ActiveMerchant, Simple Form, Inherited Resources, Delayed Job and ElasticSearch. Built highly interactive interfaces with jQuery, CoffeeScript and AJAX Set up production environments on DigitalOcean servers and deployed using Capistrano Taught class on HTML, CSS and JavaScript to non-technical DevShop staff From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Greater New York City AreaCEO @ Used lean startup and business model canvas to determine market and inform development of LittleFish platform, a social media analytics tool Secured $20,000 seed investment upon acceptance to VentureSpur, a seed capital fund and tech accelerator in Oklahoma City Managed product development based on customer feedback Assisted senior developer in implementing new features, refining LittleFish analysis algorithm and numerous bug fixes Prepared slide deck and made pitches to investors at demo days in Oklahoma City and Dallas From July 2013 to March 2014 (9 months) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma AreaAssistant Wrestling Coach @ Coached middle school and high school wrestlers. From November 2013 to February 2014 (4 months) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma AreaTechnology Marketing Associate @ • Led commercialization team in Oklahoma’s first *Proof-of-Concept Center class for software-based wireless coexistence testing technology developed at the University of Oklahoma • Managed business and product development of StormCrowd (www.oustormcrowd.com), a citizen reporting mobile app and web platform invented by OU journalism professors • Partnered with OU mobile journalism class and local newspaper The Purcell Register for closed beta test of StormCrowd • Developed custom Wordpress blog to promote OU technologies • Conducted market analysis, drafted non-confidential disclosures, identified and contacted potential licensees, and other activities associated with commercializing technologies invented at the University of Oklahoma *Oklahoma Proof-of-Concept Center: An initiative between the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Cowboy Technologies LLC and i2E to bring university technologies to the marketplace. From January 2013 to July 2013 (7 months) Fellow @ • Assisted Venture Advisory Services team at i2E, a private non-profit focused on growing advanced-technology businesses in Oklahoma • Conducted market analysis and valuation potential of clients • Managed dates and timelines of client materials for Oklahoma SBIR Collaborative Resource program • Aided in drafting and editing course materials for Oklahoma’s first Proof-of-Concept Center class From January 2013 to April 2013 (4 months) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma AreaManaging Editor @ • Oversaw all aspects of producing award-winning weekday publication serving OU community (8,000 paper circulation), including reporting, newspaper design and web content management • Executed timely publication of approximately 100 weekday newspapers • Responsible for staff of 7 editors and 73 other staff members From August 2012 to December 2012 (5 months) Software Business Accelerator Intern @ K20 Classwalk iPad app: • Partnered with K20 education research center and nine students and programmers to develop, commercialize and market an iPad app for school principals in Oklahoma • Prepared profitable business plan and revenue model for iPad app to enter mobile market • Developed marketing campaign for local, regional and national expansion • Application published on the Apple App Store August 2013; holds 5-star rating Google Apps for Education project: • Partnered with OU Information Technology to analyze potential implementation of Google Apps for Education as campus email solution • Created implementation strategy for OU IT that would save the university $193,000 annually • Examined security, legal and compliance issues, customer preference, costs and savings • Completed two working sessions with Google employees at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA From January 2012 to May 2012 (5 months)

Web Development @ Dev Bootcamp From 2014 to 2014 Ruby on Rails @ Bloc From 2013 to 2014 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism, Magna Cum Laude @ University of Oklahoma From 2008 to 2012 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chinese @ University of Oklahoma From 2008 to 2012 Advanced Conversational Chinese, U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Newspaper Reading @ Harbin Institute of Technology From 2011 to 2011 Pre-Advanced Chinese @ Yunnan University From 2011 to 2011 Jared Rader is skilled in: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, AngularJS, Test Driven Development, RSpec, jQuery, SQL, CoffeeScript, Vim, Agile Web Development, Git, HTML, Web Design, HAML