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Hello, my name is Kyle Howell and I believe my technical skills and training can help your team. I have spent the past year in self study learning as much as I can about full-stack development using Ruby on Rails and Javascript. I am a recent graduate of Dev Bootcamp, an accelerated 19 week program focusing on hands on experience with those technologies. Since graduating in September, I have focused on learning Javascript frameworks focusing on Node.js to supplement my Javascript knowledge.

I believe my recent projects show how I can contribute to your team as a Web Developer. My latest project, ReddyReader, is an application using "Rails as an API" to our Javascript-heavy front end. The application is a great example of how I can contribute clean MVC Javascript code. I encourage you to look at my personal website to see my portfolio and an example of what I can create.

My latest projects - http://kylehowell.github.io

My LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kyle-howell/a2/353/20b

Hello, my name is Kyle Howell and I believe my unique background and experience is a perfect fit at Yelp. After graduating with a Business Economics degree from UC Santa Barbara, I spent four years working in the food-service industry holding just about every front of house position and eventually becoming a trainer and bar manager. During that time, I pursued Web Development as a hobby, creating my own website and learning as much as I can about HTML, CSS and Javascript. I left the food-service industry to pursue my career in Web Development and enrolled in Dev Bootcamp, an 18 week accelerated program giving my the tools I need to become a full-stack web developer.

I believe my past experience in the Restaurant industry can offer unique perspective to your team. But above all else, I know my experience as a Web Developer give me the skills I need to immediately contribute. I have experience working with MySQL and I share the same belief in Test-Driven Development to clearly define the expectations from your code.

Although I am applying as a Software Engineer, I am open to any position with your company that can perhaps match my Business Economics background and hands-on experience in the Restaurant Industry. However, I know my skills as a Developer would be the perfect match for Yelp. I encourage you to look at my portfolio of recent projects built using Ruby on Rails as well as my personal blog to get a look of what I have created.

I look forward to hearing from your company.

Kyle Howell
http://kylehowell.github.io
mrkylehowell@gmail.com

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