About Me
Everyone has a story to tell and mine is not too different form the countless number of parents who find themselves caught between their career and their family
I started my career many years ago as an IT Consultant with Deloitte. Being a Consultant allowed me to work across many sectors including government, private and non-profit. It also provided me with the opportunity to explore various roles in IT such as Technical Writer, System Designer and Business Analyst.
As much as I loved my career, I found the travel demands too overwhelming to juggle with a family. After much consideration, I chose family and a part-time job as a Montgomery County Substitute Teacher whereby I can be home when my children were home.
Fast forward many years and a few classes later, I was fortunate to restart my career as a Software Test Engineer. In the past few years, I have contracted with The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), The Census Bureau and the Treasury Department on several projects. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, I have not only tested front and backend applications, but have written and implemented CMMi standards.
In an effort to “catch up” and make up for my absence in corporate America, I have taken various courses over the part few years, including this series of classes in Front-End Web Development. My hope is that these classes will not only expand my knowledge but provide options for a possible career change.
- Name: Bertina Battou
- Website: www.Bertina.com
- Phone: +123 456 7890
- City: Washington, DC Area
- Degrees: BS-Computer Science
MS-Information Technology - Email: bertina@example.com
Skill Level
Certification Goals
As best stated by the words of Mahatma Gandhi, " Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." I love to learn and initially, I enrolled in the HTML class to simply learn more about HTML. As one course turn into another and then another, I decided to go to the finish line and complete all coursework for a certification. Below are the individual classes and a few highlevel points of what I learned from each.
HTML5/CSS3
- Basic building block needed to create websites
- Advanced techniques to style web pages
JavaScript/jQuery
- How JS supports event-driven programming styles
- How to use jQuery reaction events
XML/JSON/AJAX
- Overview of core technologies for asynchronous web capabilities
- Nested arrays in JSON objects
- Dynamic HTML tables
Responsive Web Design
- RWD Front-End Frameworks, inclusing HTML,JS and Mobile
- Layouts using fluid, proportion-based grids, and flexible images
Certification Coursework
Following are the courses needed to obtain Front-End Web Development Certification. Please click on the link below to view completed exercises.
HTML5/CSS3
First class in series with a total of 8 sessions and 2 exercises. In addition, this was my first exposure to using Adobe Dreamweaver development environment for local, testing and remote (live) websites.
JavaScript/jQuery
With a total of 8 sessions and a multitude of exercises, this class focused on designing and developing a website using JavaScript and jQuery libraries.
Responsive Web Design
In this course, the focus was on developing a RWD compliant website using Bootstrap and w3.css.
Capstone Portfolio
Final course in series which serves as lab for design and development of websites.
Prospective Employers
Currently, I am not actively seeking imployment as a Front-End Web developer, but may do so in the future. Below are several links to open positions. Please click the links below for prospective employers.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Intelligent Automation, Rockville, MD
Fortego, Columbia, MD
Contact Me
Please contact me via any of the means below!
Email Me
bertina@example.com
Call Me
+1 123 456 7890