curriculum-vitae/cv.xml

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<cv>
	<work-history>
		<company>
			<name>edX</name>
			<role>
				<title>Full-Stack Bootcamp Teaching Assistant</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2021-06">June 2021</start>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						As a teaching assistant, I am responsible for
						fielding student questions before, during, and after
						lectures; I also serve as a substitute instructor
						when required. I have worked with hundreds of
						students from various backgrounds, explaining
						everything from for loops to full-stack deployment.
						After spending thousands of hours assisting
						learners, I have a deep knowledge of current front-
						and back-end technologies, frameworks, and
						libraries.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
							I have worked with hundreds of students from various backgrounds over thousands of hours, explaining complex computer science concepts in a digestible ad approachable manner.
				</p>
			</description>
			</role>
			<role>
				<title>Senior Tutor</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2021-10">October 2021</start>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						I was recognised as a sought-after, highly effective
						tutor to recieve this title. I worked around the
						busy schedules of our students, helping them build
						individualised learning patterns, and I explained
						industry best practices for full-stack developers
						through the lens of their existing knowledge.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I was recognised as a sought-after, highly effective tutor to receive this title; I provided individualised assistance to learners, helping them form useful working habits and empowering them to follow their curiosity when programming.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Sixfold</name>
			<role>
				<title>Publisher &amp; Maintainer</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2024-05">May 2024</start>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						<i>Sixfold</i> is a writer-voted journal of poetry and
						short stories. I am in charge of the publication's
						website and overall digital presence.
					</p>
					<p>
						I took over the maintenance of this 11-year-old PHP site and split it in two: a static Eleventy site presents old
						issues, contest instructions, and digital publishing
						guides for the more than 9,000 monthly visitors, and
						a rebuilt PHP site is responsible for running the
						quarterly contests for our thirty-one thousand
						members. Both sites were migrated from Amazon Web
						Services to a basic Linode server, decreasing
						monthly costs by more than fifty times. This single
						five-dollar server also runs a Forgejo instance that
						hosts the source code for both sites. I edit,
						proofread, and publish both the digital and print
						publications.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						<i>Sixfold</i> is a writer-voted journal of poetry and
						short stories. I am in charge of the publication's
						website and overall digital presence.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Public Offering</name>
			<role>
				<title>Founder and Infrastructure Engineer</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2022-11">November 2022</start>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						Public Offering is the not-for-profit digital services
						organisation I created to help build a better web.
					</p>
					<p>
						I worked with interested individuals to build
						static, performant, multilingual websites that
						showcased their personality. These sites are edited
						with a bespoke, open-source CMS that gets out of
						their way. I built the CMS to gain a better
						understanding of how they worked, and to implement
						features that currently available applications did
						not yet have, such as a multilingual media library,
						responsive editor design, and non-image media items.
						It also utilises a custom, dependency-free router I
						wrote for the core Node HTTP server. We also offer
						an invite-only Forgejo instance and a public
						Etherpad instance.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						Public Offering is the not-for-profit digital services
						organisation I created to help build a better web. I provide pay-what-you-can web hosting and a collection of other useful digital tools.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Leibowitz Branding &amp; Design</name>
			<role>
				<title>Full-Stack Developer and Accessibility Specialist</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2022-09">September 2022</start>
					<end datetime="2023-05">May 2023</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						After regularly advocating for accessible design
						processes, I was given a promotion that emphasised
						this work. I performed detailed accessibility audits
						for our existing clients using skills from my
						Trusted Tester certification. I presented concise,
						prioritised accessibility reports with
						citations and clear remediation steps. My new role
						also involved working with account mangers to
						improve the agency's information architecture and
						simplify inter-department communication.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						After regularly advocating for accessible design
						processes, I was given a promotion that emphasised
							this work, which allowed me to I performed detailed accessibility audits for both new and existing clients.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
			<role>
				<title>Developer</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2021-05">May 2021</start>
					<end datetime="2022-09">September 2022</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						I came on as the sole in-house developer and
						immediately took charge of the agency's dozens of
						client sites, performing regular maintenance of
						plugins and third-party data feeds. After gaining
						familiarity with their work, I began introducing
						accessible design principles onto our design
						process, working with our designers to catch
						accessibility issues before the development phase.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I was hired as the sole in-house developer for this small design agency, and immediately took over mantenance for its dozens of client sites, building new workflows not only for development, but for inter-agency communication.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Freelance Work</name>
			<role>
				<title>Various International Digital Works</title>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2018-09">September 2018</start>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						I have worked with theater companies, non-profits,
						and creative individuals with unique digital ideas.
						These word-of-mouth commissions have allowed me to
						travel to various countries, participate in
						festivals, engage with new technologies, and form
						invaluable friendships. The remote portion of this
						work involved communicating across various mediums
						and time zones with both clients and testers.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I have worked with theater companies, non-profits,
						and creative individuals on unique digital ideas that have been presented as part of international arts festivals.
					</p>
				</description>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Romanian Cultural Institute</name>
			<role>
				<title>Lighting Designer &amp; Audio–Video Technician</title>
				<production>The Retreat</production>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2025-01">January 2025</start>
					<end datetime="2025-01">January 2025</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I designed the lighting in collaboration with the
						performers during their one and only rehearsal in
						the space. For the performance itself, I operated
						the lights, the sound, and the projections.
					</p>
				</description>
				<url>https://www.rciusa.info/events/national-culture-day-electrifying-simona-maicanescu-in-the-united-states-and-canada</url>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>The Sheen Center for Thought &amp; Culture</name>
			<role>
				<title>Box Office Manager &amp; Run Crew</title>
				<production>Odd Man Out</production>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2024-05">May 2024</start>
					<end datetime="2024-08">August 2024</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="full">
					<p>
						Over the show's three-month run, I was in charge of
						greeting guests; scanning tickets; and communicating
						with Fever, TodayTix and other ticketing providers.
						I monitored ticket prices and capacity daily,
						producing detailed sales reports for the producers
						based on their requests. The immersive show also had
						a set in the lobby that needed to be changed during
						each show and taken down at the end of the day. I
						hung lights, set up furniture, and dressed the space
						according to plans created by the set designer. I
						also helped audience members utilise technology-free
						pouches, locking their devices in a bag for the
						duration of the show and unlocking them upon
						departure.
					</p>
				</description>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>Over the three-month run of this immersive Off-Off-Broadway show, I handled the ticket sales across multiple platforms, managed the front-of-house area while checking in guests, and set up the elaborate lobby decorations before, during, and after each performance.</p>
				</description>
				<url>https://www.sheencenter.org/events/detail/odd-man-out</url>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Out of the Box Theatrics</name>
			<role>
				<title>Box Office Manager</title>
				<production>Until Dark</production>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2024-03">March 2024</start>
					<end datetime="2024-04">April 2024</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I was in charge of maintaining the front-of-house,
						selling merchandise, and scanning tickets via
						Eventbrite. I prepared detailed breakdowns for
						nightly attendance, complimentary ticket usage, and
						total revenue.
					</p>
				</description>
				<url>https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Et-Alia-Theater-to-Present-UNTIL-DARK-by-Federica-Borlenghi-This-Month-20240205</url>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>Theater for the New City</name>
			<role>
				<title>Sound Designer &amp; Lighting Operator</title>
				<production>Stop Kiss</production>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2023-05">May 2023</start>
					<end datetime="2023-06">June 2023</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>
						I sourced the sound effects and music for the show,
						organising them into a QLab workspace for the
						soundboard operator. I also operated the lighting
						board for every performance.
					</p>
				</description>
				<url>https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/regional/Stop-Kiss-3813008</url>
			</role>
		</company>
		<company>
			<name>New York City Fringe</name>
			<role>
				<title>Sound Designer and Board Operator</title>
				<production>This Feeling</production>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2020-02">February 2020</start>
					<end datetime="2020-03">March 2020</end>
				</duration>
				<description type="brief">
					<p>I worked with the writer-director to create music and sound effects for this one-woman show. I was also in charge of operating the sound board during the performances.</p>
				</description>
				<url>https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/THIS-FEELING-A-New-Romantic-Comedy-Premieres-At-The-Frigid-Fringe-Festival-20200225</url>
			</role>
		</company>
	</work-history>
	<foss-contributions>
		<project>
			<name>GoAccess</name>
			<activity>Contributor</activity>
			<description type="brief">
				<p>
					I refactored the generated log reports to use semantic
					HTML, improving accessibility and simplifying
					maintenance. I also began replacing outdated
					dependencies with native browser alternatives to
					decrease report sizes and close years-old issues.
				</p>
			</description>
		</project>
		<project>
			<name>ProseMirror</name>
			<activity>Plugin Developer, Forum Participant</activity>
			<description type="brief">
				<p>
					I've published four ProseMirror plugins—a document
					outline, a semantic editing menu, a node insertion menu,
					and a node inspector—to simplify more complex document
					manipulation tasks.
				</p>
			</description>
		</project>
	</foss-contributions>
	<education>
		<institution>
			<name>New York University</name>
			<location>New York, NY, United States</location>
			<degree>
				<level>Bachelor of Fine Arts</level>
				<concentration>Theatre</concentration>
				<school>Tisch School of the Arts</school>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2017-09">September 2017</start>
					<end datetime="2020-12">December 2020</end>
				</duration>
				<gpa>3.851</gpa>
				<honors>
					<item>Magna cum laude</item>
					<item>Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s List</item>
				</honors>
			</degree>
			<degree>
				<level>Minor</level>
				<concentration>Web Programming and Applications</concentration>
				<school>Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences</school>
				<duration>
					<start datetime="2018-01">January 2018</start>
					<end datetime="2020-12">December 2020</end>
				</duration>
			</degree>
		</institution>
	</education>
	<skills>
		<category name="Languages">
			<item>Romanian (A1; reading, writing, speaking, listening)</item>
			<item>Irish Gaelic (A1; reading, writing)</item>
			<item>Portuguese (A1; reading, writing)</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Certifications">
			<item>Section 508: DHS Trusted Tester</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Programming &amp; Scripting Languages">
			<item>(X)HTML</item>
			<item>XML</item>
			<item>XSLT</item>
			<item>CSS</item>
			<item>JavaScript</item>
			<item>PHP</item>
			<item>Python</item>
			<item>Go</item>
			<item>SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL</item>
			<item>NoSQL</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Operating Systems">
			<item>Ubuntu Linux</item>
			<item>Microsoft Windows</item>
			<item>MacOS</item>
			<item>Arch Linux</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Programs">
			<item>Vim</item>
			<item>Git</item>
			<item>Bash</item>
			<item>Inkscape</item>
			<item>Figma</item>
			<item>Adobe Creative Cloud</item>
			<item>Unity</item>
			<item>Final Cut</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools">
			<item>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)</item>
			<item>htmx</item>
			<item>Web Components</item>
			<item>WebRTC</item>
			<item>static-site generators</item>
			<item>content management systems</item>
			<item>EPUB</item>
			<item>Node.js</item>
			<item>Bootstrap</item>
			<item>Tailwind</item>
			<item>SSH</item>
			<item>SMTP</item>
			<item>nginx</item>
			<item>Apache</item>
			<item>Open Graph</item>
			<item>React/Redux</item>
			<item>TypeScript</item>
			<item>Electron</item>
			<item>Svelte</item>
			<item>Cypress</item>
			<item>Jest</item>
			<item>Docker</item>
			<item>Vonage/Nexmo</item>
		</category>
		<category name="Miscellaneous">
			<item>Database administration</item>
			<item>Server upkeep</item>
			<item>User interface design</item>
			<item>User experience design</item>
			<item>Captioning</item>
			<item>Transcription</item>
		</category>
	</skills>
</cv>