Chris Saden's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Senior Software Engineer @ Juniper Square San Francisco Bay AreaFull Stack Software Engineer III @ Udacity Implemented payment management, billing history, and invoice download as pdfs for paid subscriptions in the classroom. (React, Redux, Jest)Extended certificate model for validated graduation certificates and created a splash page for users to share them over social media. (PostgreSQL, Go, React, Redux, Jest) Developed Udacity's Career Portal (React, Redux, Jasmine), a customized learning path for users to reach their career goals in tech. From October 2017 to October 2019 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaFull Stack Software Engineer II @ Udacity Implemented Udacity Professional Profiles v2 (GraphQL, Coffeescript, Chai/Sinon, Docker, Gulp)Extended Careers API (Node.js) and Careers Dashboard (React, Redux) to manage student success stories for udacity.com/success and to track student exemptions for accurate outcomes reporting.Collaborated with data team for reporting and analytics on job placement and career-readiness (Postgres, Segment, Chartio) From February 2017 to September 2017 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaFull Stack Software Engineer @ Udacity Career's Team Mission: Connect students with employers and help students reach their career goals (upskill, promotion, new job).Implemented marketing pages to drive hiring partner sign ups and user acquisition.(Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Sass, Rspec, Jasmine)Wireframed and developed the Careers Dashboard, an internal tool to track students in jobsand surface student data from Udacity’s classroom app, project reviews app, and discussion forums(Node, Redis, Coffeescript, Postgres, Chai/Sinon, Docker)Scoped and built Udacity’s Career Resource Center, which lifted organic referral traffic to udacity.com, conserved engineer resources, and reduced requests of support staff.(Ruby/Rails, Alchemy CMS, RSpec) From October 2015 to January 2017 (1 year 4 months) San FranciscoCourse Developer @ Udacity Designed and instructed 4 online courses (Product Design, Data Visualization with D3.js, Data Analysis with R, and Visualizing Algebra) in collaboration with industry experts to reach 100,000+ learners.Beta tested curriculum and revised assessments to increase student retention in courses.Drafted and refined Content Team’s values guiding course development for 60+ employees.Product Design - https://www.udacity.com/course/product-design--ud509Learn the foundations of product validation and user experience design through Google’s Design Sprint methodology. You'll learn strategies for ideation, research, validation, prototyping, and measurement (product metrics).Data Visualization and D3.js - https://www.udacity.com/course/data-visualization-and-d3js--ud507Learn the fundamentals of data visualization and apply design and narrative concepts to create your own visualization.Data Analysis with R - https://www.udacity.com/course/data-analysis-with-r--ud651Learn how to visualize and interpret data sets alongside myself and three data scientists at Facebook. Break free from Excel to have reproducible results, web-ready reports, and documented analyses written in code.Visualizing Algebra - https://www.udacity.com/course/visualizing-algebra--ma006Learn how to solve problems with visual algebra methods. Topics range from fractions to factoring to logarithmic functions. From November 2012 to September 2015 (2 years 11 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaFaculty Member @ Elite Educational Institute Instructed classes of 18 students for SAT I Math with an average growth of 20% per student.Provided over 180 hours of tutoring in Mathematics (all levels), Chemistry and Physics.Taught specialized curriculum for SAT II Subject Tests (Math IIC and Chemistry) and SSAT leading to an average of 150 point gains per student.Created curricula to teach preview classes of Geometry and AP Chemistry, 17 and 5 students respectively. From September 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 3 months) Administrative Assistant @ Pacific Coast Psychiatric Associates Managed $1.3 million in billing through insurance payments, reports and patient outreach to yield an average monthly collection rate of 98%.Confirmed scheduling and insurance coverage for approximately 400 clients.Created 40+ paged Standard Operating Procedures Manual including technical troubleshooting for claims and usage of Psych Advantage, a business management software. From June 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 2 months) Corps Member @ Teach for America One of 250 Bay Area Corps Members selected from over 35,000 applicants who commit two years to teach in under-resourced or rural schools and become lifelong advocates for educational equity.High School Math Teacher, Life Academy, Oakland UnifiedRewrote Algebra II curricula for 100 students resulting in a 22% increase of students scoring “Basic” and above on the Algebra II CA standardized test.Coordinated and instructed 4 hours of weekly academic intervention with the Extended Day Program resulting in a 73% CAHSEE passage in 2010 and 82% passage in 2011 (65% passage at Life Academy and 63% passage in OUSD in 2009).Aligned Geometry curricula to state standards for 40 students and created two units of inquiry.Advised 20 students (all grade levels) in academics, internships and college/career paths. From August 2009 to June 2011 (1 year 11 months) Residence Hall Director Fellow @ Emory University Admissions Fellow, Office of Undergraduate Admission• Reviewed approximately 1,000 first year applications.• Planned and executed Fall and Spring visitation programs, including multicultural recruitment.• Conducted 50 one hour presentations for groups of 20-60 visitors.Residence Hall Director, Residence Life and Housing• Supervised 18 Resident and Sophomore Advisors• Managed a programming budget of $4,500 to fund over 50 residence hall programs.• Responded to area-wide emergency on-call pager for 800 students.• Served as a Conduct Officer to determine violations of the Student Code of Conduct in 10 cases. From July 2008 to May 2009 (11 months) EPASS Tutor @ Learning Programs Conducted academic sessions for students in introductory Biology, introductory and upper level Mathematics.Completed more than 150 hours of tutoring while independently working with 50 students.Certified as an Associate Tutor by the Association of the Tutoring Profession (ATP). From October 2005 to May 2008 (2 years 8 months) Emory University, AtlantaConferences Coordinator @ University Conferences, Emory University Managed $3 million in billing for approximately 60 conference groups.Supervised 9 Conferences’ Customer Service Representatives.Conducted training sessions in customer service, billing and desk operations for 16 Conference Managers.Acted as a liaison among University Conferences, on-campus vendors and University departments. From May 2007 to August 2007 (4 months)