I'm particularly excited about front end work, especially building beautiful, user-friendly apps and immersive scrollytelling pages. I'm currently building different types of apps with React and Gatsby, for example a couple of API call apps (my portfolio, and New York Times top story app) and I'm really interested in the SEO and responsive web design opportunities Gatsby offers.

I love it when something small I've built elicits reactions of wonder from those I demo it to! For example, I've recently built and deployed websites with birthday greetings for friends and family instead of cards - exciting to receive, and great for the environment too.

I want to demystify programming for those who aren't normally drawn into it as a career, especially girls.
I got into programming myself thanks to a RailsGirls workshop, and have been coding with my daughter on Sphero Edu and Scratch.
Inclusive design fascinates me and I want to become good at it - I knew the issues but Chimmy Kalu's talk at this year's Women Driven Development conference was an eye-opener for me.

I'm a tree-hugging vegan, and member of my company's Sustainability Forum, where we work to reduce carbon footprint.

Project details	Demo
Jack The Ripper
iOS native Jack the Ripper geolocation game. This was my final project at Makers, designed and written in a group of 6. Here's my blog! https://medium.com/@helisivunen Tech stack: Swift, Xcode.
Portfolio
My portfolio, linked to my repos via the GitHub API. Tech stack: Gatsby,React, Flexbox, Google Fonts. Under construction! 🛠	https://friendly-kepler-67683c.netlify.app/
Headline Search
API call app for searching FT headlines. Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, CSS to emulate FT's colour and font.
Tarvikkeet
Finnish-language front end CRUD project to learn CSS and scrollytelling with still images and video. Tech stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS.

• Excellent communication skills - I can condense complex information and present it convincingly
• Understanding of user behaviour online (click-throughs)
• Logistics, copyright and legal/music clearance
• Writing, video editing and editorial skills
• Juggling multiple tasks at once and remaining calm under pressure
• Great team player - I believe in taking collective credit for achievements

Channel 4 News, ITN
Current role:

• News Editor: running the Newsdesk, which is the nerve centre of the newsroom. I generate story ideas, spot
  the best picture of the day, assign reporters and camera crews to cover stories and provide editorial and
  legal guidance.

Previous roles:

• Site Editor, Channel 4 News Digital: managing a team of journalists working on our digital platforms.
  I learned about SEO, thumbnails/story promotion, CMS and publishing tools.
• Producer: making stories into engaging TV.
• Avid Edit Trainer: training more 100+ staff across departments on Avid editing software and server tools, in
  London and DC.

CNN International

• Satellite Feed Producer in the CNN London Master Control Room.

Heart 106.2

• Reporter: interviewing politicians and covering stories from scrabble championships to police raids.

• 12-week, intensive career change bootcamp. First four weeks was Ruby/Rspec, then JavaScript,
  and for the final project I learned Swift. The course taught me pair programming, TDD, Agile practices, modelling, debugging and clean code. I've taken a top-up React course with Makers, which I loved and it strengthened my front-end skills.

  Tech learned:

  • Languages: React, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Swift
  • Frameworks: Gatsby,Node.js, Rails
  • Test suites: Jest, React Testing Library, RSpec, Capybara, Travis
  • IDEs: Atom, Visual Studio, Xcode
  • Other technologies: GitHub, Heroku, Netlify, SQL/TablePlus, Azure DevOps

• MSc International Relations

• Attended their prestigious journalism school for 3 months

• BA (Hons) Journalism and Psychology

• Bilingual Finnish / English, fluent French, A-level standard Swedish and German

• I love the TLDR newsletter, which is a perfect tech geek roundup for someone like me, who's juggling many things!
• Pod Save America and Campaign HQ are essential listening to enable me to stay on top of the US Presidential election
• I'm in the early stages of writing a book and scrollytelling project from more than 2,000 letters my grandparents
  sent to each other when my grandfather was fighting in the Finnish Continuation War during WWII.