Cullen REDDY

Oakland and San Francisco · cull.redd@gmail.com

I’m an expert office manager whose administrative career started in high school, having a background in customer service, facilities, vendor relations, shipping logistics, and event coordination. I'm also an engineer with a dedication for languages and linguistics, advanced in four human languages, having competency in more as I'm always studying in much of my free time. Moreover - and not lastly! - I'm a pet caretaker. I've been house sitting for my community's cats and dogs since childhood, but since 2020 have been doing longer term stays for people who have out of town needs for a month or two.

As an OM, I'm a dynamic presence in the office. I have over a decade's experince in administrative work. I thrive off interactive roles and simultaneously enjoy working behind the scenes. I revel in helping companies run seemelessly and proactively attend to the wellbeing of the office, building, and workspaces. During the pandemic, I was walking down Diviz and happened upon a box on the street with some books about programming and linguistics. Naturally, I brought those home and looked through them; they inspired me to learn about data science and engineering, and I'm so happy to have spent the time doing that, but I am ready and thrilled to return to what I do best - office management. I'm looking forward to joining a team that upholds the values of transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement. My bosses have always adored me and I know you and your team will as well!

In terms of programming, I'm excited to dive deeper into web development, data science, and machine learning building off my experiences with JavaScript and Python. Naturally curious and passionate, I'm eager to see how natural language processing changes how we interact with our environments and communities.

As a house and pet sitter, I relish bonding with your furry friends. I love how dogs get me active and out of the house way more often than I normally would venture, exploring and making community at local parks, and how full my heart is when cats learn to tolerate my smothering of adoration or to sleep by my side. I currently only house sit in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco as I still have other responsibilities to attend to each week. Please shoot me an email if you have any upcoming trips or questions!
--I'm currently booked through November--


Skills

Productivity Software
Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Responsive Design
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Projects

Individual Projects
An app for beginner and intermediate students of Spanish with an English-Spanish dictionary and Spanish collocation database
Háblame heroku

A site to save your favorite movies and shows and keep track of the ones you wanna watch!
Oh-My-Gottawatch! heroku

My first project! Title self-explanatory
Tic Tac Toe netlify

A Python project on Language diversity and English proficiency in the US, a visualization
US Language Diversity and English Proficiency kaggle


Contributor in Group Projects

A website to help plan which clothes to pack dependcing on where you're travelling to!
Travel Time heroku

The landing page and email subscription process for its trivia nights
Team Rocket Trivia heroku


Experience

Software engineering fellow

General Assembly

Created projects and completed coding exercises using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, Python, Flask, Alembic, and PSQAlchemy; Leveraged debugging strategies to ensure program integrity; Planned, built, tested, deployed and launched full-stack applications; Leveraged third-party APIs and integrated them into websites and applications; Developed a portfolio of individual and collaboratively built projects;

Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

Agile Project Manager Intern

Skycatch, Inc

Manage daily standups for two engineering teams using JIRA and the Agile methodology; Facilitated Sprint Demos and Retrospectives for both teams; Tracked KPIs and other metrics for data visualization and presentation using SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint;

May 2021 - Oct 2021

Office and Shipping Manager

Skycatch, Inc

Conducted and regulated office operations, vendor relations; Managed tenant relations as landlord point of contact; Coordinated domestic and international shipping of hazardous materials; Produced purchase orders and invoicing; Tracked and categorized expenses to aid in accurate financial reporting;

Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

Office Manager

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Conducted and regulated office operations and communications, vendor relations; Managed domestic and international travel and accommodations for employees; Reconciled corporate expenses to aid in accurate financial reporting; Coordinated and oversaw event logistics;

May 2016 - Jun 2018

Education

General Assembly

Software Engineering & Web Development
Frontend & Backend Development (JavaScript & Python)
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

Middlebury College

Graduate level, summer immersion program
Arabic Language & Literature
Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts
Arabic Language & Literature
Linguistics
Aug 2005 - May 2009

Birzeit University

Arabic Language
Palestinian Dialect of Jerusalem
Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

University of California, Los Angeles

Arabic Language
Advanced Arabic Language
Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

Interests

Outside of being an office guru and amateur developer, I'm a huge fan of human languages and spend an inordinate number of hours reading up on and studying multiple languages and their grammars. This passion is also leading me in the direction of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; very excited to learn more about AI as I delve deeper and deeper into the world of programming.

Moreover, I love cooking - only started learning in earnest a few years ago, cats and dogs - have almost always lived with cats, am a cat and dog sitters, and watching horror movies and going to standup comedy.


Awards & Certifications

  • Web Development and Software Engineering Immersive - General Assembly, 2022

  • Python Programmer - DataCamp.com, 2022

  • Data Analyst wtih Python - DataCamp.com, 2021

  • Indeed Assessments: Office Manager, Expert - Indeed.com, 2020

  • Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) - International House, Ecuador, 2018