Abbey

Abbey is a very impressive SheCodes graduate who has completely altered her career trajectory thanks to her coding knowledge. She was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin and is still living there today. She went to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and received a B.A. in Journalism and Women’s studies. 

Her hobbies include reading, discovering new card and board games to play with family, and taking long walks with a good podcast. She’s a woman of many interests! She’s also had many jobs over the years spanning different fields. She’s worked in management, customer service, and visual merchandising to name a few. For the past 5 years, Abbey was working as a store manager.

Along with her many other interests, Abbey has also had an interest in coding for years to improve her personal and professional skill set. As an added bonus, she found that it’s also a fun activity that she can do with her daughters, one of whom is involved in a Girls Who Code club!

After coming across a Facebook ad for SheCodes, Abbey decided to join the free SheCodes Express session that’s offered. 

Along with the manageability of the workshop, Abbey also enjoyed the teaching methods, resources provided, set-up of the workshop, and personal attention that students receive throughout the workshop. Unlike other online coding courses she’d tried in the past, she found that she was able to truly gain a solid coding foundation with SheCodes 🙌

Abbey thoroughly enjoyed the SheCodes Slack community and being able to get all of her coding questions answered, too. She had a great experience learning with other women. 

Check out Abbey’s SheCodes Plus Vanilla JavaScript Project here 👉 https://modest-jennings-9cbffc.netlify.app/

Abbey got a job as a Front End Developer after taking the 4 month SheCodes Plus React workshop, which includes all three workshops that SheCodes has to offer. She was able to completely alter her career path thanks to her new coding knowledge 💪 💻 

Abbey is now working as a Front End Developer at Foremost Media and is finding her job to be very fulfilling thus far. When she first began this role, a typical day would include handling smaller support tickets, learning about new technologies that her company uses, and learning how to create clean and concise code. 

Now, after having worked there for a few months, her daily tasks have developed and grown a bit. She manages her day with help of service and project boards. Along with daily standup meetings, she also partakes in upgrading sites, QA testing to ensure everything is ready before product launches, ADA compliance auditing, and content pop tickets for variety and more learning opportunities. She works closely with her project and support managers to get her questions answered in order to successfully handle service, hack clean-up, client, and project tickets (such as upgrading site modules, updating themes, and general QA). She really enjoys her work because it’s never dull and she’s always learning something new. Plus, it involves a brand new way of problem solving, which she finds to be very rewarding. She’s working on improving her coding knowledge every day and is enjoying soaking it all in.

When asked what her advice to future students would be, Abbey said that there’s nothing to lose! Read on to see her advice, along with her testimonials from each of the SheCodes workshops.

“I enjoyed my entire experience with SheCodes! I have wanted to learn how to code for as long as I can remember but it was overwhelming for a novice like myself. Matt managed to make everything easy to understand and gave it to me in a platform that WORKED with my lifestyle for way less 💵 than a boot camp. I will 💯 be continuing my training with SheCodes!”

“After completing the introduction course I was very intrigued by the possibility of learning more coding with SheCodes. Much like Intro to Coding course this was easy to understand with videos and notes provided and it's possible to fit into my hectic schedule! There were challenging aspects to this 6-week course but there is great support provided and I feel accomplished and proud of myself that I completed it!”

“All 3 SheCodes' courses gave me the knowledge and tools to go ahead and finally learn how to code using everyday mark-up languages plus React which is currently an industry favorite! I am continuing my journey using the documentation that I can look at for as long as I need and continuing to code on my own. I feel confident that I can start applying for junior web developer positions with the idea that I can learn on the job with the tools I was taught by Matt and team!”