Experience
Web Developer
OutagePlanner.com, January 2016 to Present
- Built infrastructure and maintain web application used by 16+ industrial plants, labor unions and contractors to
share labor needs
- Site has a REST API with a PostgreSQL database, built on Node/Express with an Angular front-end
Co-Founder
YourHelpingHand, March 2013 to December 2015
- Built infrastructure and code for peer-to-peer meal delivery startup
Community Manager, Senior Education Editor
Change.org, September 2010 to February 2013
- As Community Manager, created internal system to communicate feedback from 20M users to Change.org product team
- Managed international team of 8-10 customer support agents and in-office Community Assistant
- Developed site's first Community Guidelines and moderation process
- As Senior Education Editor, researched, wrote and edited news posts about education topics
- Coached students, teachers and parents to win their campaigns on Change.org.
Communications Coordinator
Generations United, Decenber 2009 – September 2010
- Proposed, drafted and successfully pitched Washington Post and Roll Call op-eds
- Led GU’s first Twitter campaign to propagate policy report, reaching thousands of users
- Published letters to the editor in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today
SAT/Writing Teacher
IAN English Institute, May 2007 to March 2009
- Taught English composition and vocabulary to South Korean students bound for U.S. colleges
Staff Reporter
Daily Press, May 2005 – March 2007
- Covered local government, the College of William and Mary and K-12 education for Virginia newspaper
- Newsroom MVP, Daily Press Innovations award winner
Education
Web Development Workshops & Courses
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Girl Develop It San Francisco:
HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React, Algorithms, Whiteboarding, Accessibility
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Meetups: Bay Area Accessibility and Inclusive Design, Angular-SF, UXNight
Bachelor of Science in Journalism
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
- Coursework included 3-month "Teaching Media" internship at the Orlando Sentinel and summer internships at the Dayton
Daily News
About Me
When I'm not coding, I volunteer for
San Francisco City Guides, a nonprofit that offers free historic walking tours to 60,000 Bay Area visitors
each year, and volunteer for the San Francisco branch of
Girl Develop It, an organization that teaches adult women to code.
Hello! I'm
Carol A. Scott, and I build web applications that help real people. As a former journalist, I apply my skills
of investigation, research and communication to technology challenges to see — and solve — them in new ways. My deep
knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PostgreSQL, and my experience building responsive, reliable B2B software,
makes me a versatile addition to any engineering project.
