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Jamie Ferrugiaro

Hi all! So excited to join this community!! :)

I'm 35 years old from New Jersey. So I've been working in accounting for 11 years now, and I'm finally taking that step to make a change to web development. I've just enrolled in Rutger University's Full Stack Coding Bootcamp.

Back in high school, I taught myself how to do HTML/CSS but stopped doing much a few years after that. For around 5 years now I've been volunteering with the charity Amman Imman, an amazing small team of passionate, great people, with their digital marketing.

This has often included working with some amateur design, UX/UI, and more on their various webpages over that time frame (we moved to a Wordpress site recently with the help of a web dev company). I've just redesigned a bunch of pages for a major project, building a Borehole-well in Africa with a total budget of this project around $385K.

Although my day job in accounting is for a great company, and with the charity it's exciting to volunteer for something I know is doing good in the world, I'm ready to take that official leap and one day work with a great team that can help me learn and grow even further.

Some fun random facts about me:

  • I'm an avid hiker, camper, climber and general outdoorswoman. If I'm doing something on the weekend it's usually trekking up a mountain somewhere. Utah and Colorado are two of my favorite places to travel/visit.

  • I play ukulele for fun

  • I'm also an artist