Ben Manning

Ben Manning

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Engineer | Instructor

  • Education

    • General Assembly

      2014 - 2015
      Full Stack Web Development
    • Georgia State University

      2002 - 2008
      Bachelors of Science Psychology
  • Experience

    • YBM-ECC

      Jan 2009 - Mar 2010
      ESL Teacher

      At YBM-ECC Bupyeong I coordinated various lesson plans for a wide range of elementary school children. Other duties included communication with the parents, developing after school and extracurricular activities, and coordinating dual lessons with primary language co-teachers.

    • Above & Beyond Catering

      Sept 2010 - May 2011
      Caterer

      While at Above & Beyond Catering I helped to organize the orders for individual clients and also managed the larger events. Further duties included, but were not limited to, training of newer employees, delivery of orders, quality control of product, and acting as a liaison between the clientele and cooking staff.

    • Smarte Carte

      May 2011 - Jul 2012

      This position entails a variety of different roles in the operations of the SFO location. The terminal manager position oversees the execution of cart retrieval, customer service, and sales in the airport. In addition, the creation and implementation of managerial policies are maintained in this position. I run the day to day operations for the Smarte Carte team at SFO. These operation include placement of associates for effective cart distribution and retrieval, communication of safety protocols, and execution of customer service for passengers and other companies located at SFO

      • Terminal Manager

        Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
      • Assistant Terminal Manager

        May 2011 - Jan 2012
    • C5 Children's School

      Aug 2012 - Nov 2014
      Toddler Teacher

      My responsibilities include creating a lesson plan, objectively communicating learning outcomes to parents, collaborating with teachers on classroom design, curriculum, scheduling, and acquisition of materials, working with other professionals to maximize the use of materials, observing and reporting any developmental milestones or delays in children, providing monthly growth portfolios for individual children, providing daily accounts of the activities of children, implementing effective practices with technology in the classroom, and other tasks as needed. Show less

    • General Assembly

      Nov 2014 - Sept 2016

      My responsibilities in this position are to help students better understand the programming concepts they are learning in General Assembly's Web Development Immersive program. In doing so I help to explain concepts effectively, show the best practices of programming, help students reach understand debugging programs, and give advice as to how to approach the implementation or language, frameworks, or any other methods related to building full stack web applications. Other duties include assisting instructors with planning, guidance for students, and assistance in in depth project work. Show less Web Development Immersive: https://generalassemb.ly/education/web-development-immersive12-week intensive course that builds fluency in full stack web development with emphasis on work-ready skill set.Topics Covered:- Computer science theory, including data structures and algorithms- Best practices for front and back-end web development- Workflow best practices, including Command Line and Git/GitHub- Test-driven development with Mocha, Chai, and RSpec- CRUD and RESTful resources- Authentication and authorizationLanguages: JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSSFrameworks: Node.js, ExpressJS, Rails, AngularJSDatabase Tools: SQL, PostgreSQL, Sequelize, ActiveRecordOther: Heroku, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Bootstrap Show less

      • Web Development Immersive Instructor

        Oct 2015 - Sept 2016
      • Developer in Residence

        May 2015 - Oct 2015
      • Teaching Assistant

        Mar 2015 - May 2015
      • Web Development Immersive Student

        Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
    • Hostfully

      Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
      Software Developer

      In this role I assisted with the testing and execution of the initial product launch of Hostfully. My responsibilities included:-QA testing the product-finding and correcting any bugs in testing and production environments-creating alternative splash pages for the site-onboarding new members to the staff as the company grew

    • General Assembly

      Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
      Web Devlopment Immersive Instructor

      My responsibilities in this role include leading lectures on technologies needed to build basic web applications, giving technical feedback on code written by students, providing direction in terms of problem solving, and giving general support in the way of advice for transitioning to the workforce from this program.

    • General Assembly

      May 2017 - Aug 2017
      FEWD Instructor
    • The Information

      Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
      Engineer
    • General Assembly

      May 2020 - now
      SEI Instructor Lead
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer

      Issued by The Avalon Academy on Jul 2012
      The Avalon AcademyAssociated with Ben Manning