Biography

For twenty years, I was working in administration, and though the work was rewarding at times, I realized that there was no room for growth. I then decided that I needed to make some drastic changes. And so, with nothing but a high school diploma to my name, at the ripe age of 47, I went back to school. Since I didn’t have a lot of time, I decided to join a “bootcamp” training course which was a two year program condensed into seven months. It was one of the craziest decisions I have ever made. The course was grueling but we learned a lot. Following the bootcamp, I was lucky to secure an internship with Societe General, an international bank based in France. There, I made substantial improvements to a simple website, using Angular 7 to optimize both the functionality and aesthetics. At the same time, I created a complex CRUD web application for my former employer, using Angular 8 for the front-end and PHP for the backend. I am married with three grown children, and I live in Cote-Saint-Luc.

Employment

• Upgraded a website used by banking employees to check on the status of compliance reports sent to governmental financial bodies.
• Added many new features to facilitate searches, download reports, filter data from different database tables using Angular 7 for the front-end.
• Added complex tables, using Angular Material, buttons, badges, and many new features and bells and whistles, optimizing functionality and aesthetics.
• Made some contributions to the back-end as well, using Kotlin connected to a Postgres database. Wrote some unit testing code for back-end

• In collaboration with a colleague, created a complex CRUD web application from scratch, using PHP for the back-end, Angular 8 for the front-end, and connected to a MySQL database.
• The application allows clients of this compliance agency to enter data regarding their products and ingredients, as well other information, and issue certificates that are used in the food industry.
• The application has a slightly different interface for the agency itself, with features that allows agencies to keep full records on each client, and review and process the information they submit.

• Wrote a weekly column on community news from in Hamodia, an English-language newspaper targeting the Orthodox Jewish community, for 9 years.
• Published articles on current news, issues in several English-language magazines catering to the Orthodox Jewish community.
• Publications I've been published in: Ami Magazine, Mishpachah Magazine, Binah Magazine, Hamodia Newspaper under the name Chaya Eigner

• Addressing clients’ requests, complaints.
• Answering questions from Kosher consumers; phone and email.
• Audit and compliance. Liaising with companies as well as inspectors when issues come up, and working with companies to ensure compliance.
• Responsible for structural tasks (imports, scripts, programming) and troubleshooting on custom data management software.
• Account Manager: Taking clients through application process, all steps leading up to Kosher certification. Includes costing and negotiating fees..
• Liaising with Kosher Inspectors.

• Processed payroll for 50 employees.
• Was responsible for fundraising/marketing projects.
• Issued receipts, thank-you letters.
• Handled banking, credit card processing.
• Handled bookkeeping, including A/R, A/P, Banks Recs.
• Assistant to two rabbis.

Projects

Project 1 In this project, we created a student-teacher course website using PHP, Angular, and MySQL.

Project 2 In this project, we built a search app which connects to the TV Maze API to find information on TV shows.

Project 3 In this project, we began using the Bootstrap Framework.

Project 4 In this project, the objective was to design our first complete website, using basic HTML and CSS.

Sample Projects on GitHub

Education