Sarah Currey

Sarah Currey

Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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About

As the AWS Global Services Security Excellence Leader, I bring a strategic, visionary…

Activity

Experience

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graphic

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Nashville Metropolitan Area

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    Nashville Metropolitan Area

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    Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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    Nashville Metropolitan Area

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Greater Nashville Area, TN

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    Greater Nashville Area, TN

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    Greater Nashville Area, TN

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    Greater Nashville Area, TN

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    Nationwide

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    Greater Nashville Area, TN

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    Downtown Nashville

Education

  • Belmont University Graphic

    Belmont University

    Activities and Societies: Student Government Association, Marketing Committee. Alpha Sigma Tau, Vice President. Bruin Recruiter for Belmont University. Tour Guide of Office of Admission for Belmont University. DECA. Executive Leadership Program, Model UN

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee Graphic

    Associate Board Member

    Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee

    - Present 3 years 4 months

    Health

    Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee's Associate Board is comprised of passionate, determined, service-minded young professionals who are committed to furthering our non-profit's mission: To ensure all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. Our Associate Board members are among Gilda's Club's most steadfast volunteers, donors, ambassadors, and community leaders.

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    Mentor

    BUILT BY GIRLS

    - Present 4 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    Mentoring the next generation of women and non-binary leaders, builders, and creators as they take the first step into their careers in technology.

  • Rider and Fundraiser

    Bike and Build

    - 10 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    With the non-profit, Bike and Build, I biked across the United States to raise money and awareness for affordable housing efforts. Our team of 28 raised over 154,000 dollars for affordable housing projects along with did over 3,584 hours of service through the summer. From more information, check out www.bikeandbuild.org

  • Habitat for Humanity International Graphic

    Volunteer and Fundraiser

    Habitat for Humanity International

    - Present 14 years 7 months

    Economic Empowerment

    I have been volunteering with Habitat for Humanity since my senior year of high school and have completed over 250 hours of service. I support their mission of "a hand up, not a hand out," and their business model for educating their home owners.

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    Team Volunteer Coordinator

    Adventure Science Center

    - 3 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    I volunteered over the summer with the Adventure Science Center as a youth volunteer. The first summer I was in charge of exhibits and engaging children in science experiences. Later, I was promoted to Team Volunteer Coordinator so I was in charge of the other youth volunteers, assigning stations, and supervising.

Publications

  • Using D3 in your React App: 3 Things to Know

    Medium

    More and more companies are using React to create their user interfaces, and as big data becomes a bigger trend towards innovation and business agility, D3 will be very useful to give your React App an edge.

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  • How I Built My First (Obama Themed) JavaScript Game

    Medium

    Inspired by “Come Back Barack” from “Saturday Night Live”, I created a JavaScript game named “Come Back Barack,” which is an interactive clickable video game where the player will click to gain points and avoid the obstacles in order to win. The objective is to energize Obama so he will come back from vacation, but the user will need to catch “Liberal Snowflakes” to keep him energized. However, there are red “Make America Great Again” Hats that are obstacles and if a hat falls on Obama, then it…

    Inspired by “Come Back Barack” from “Saturday Night Live”, I created a JavaScript game named “Come Back Barack,” which is an interactive clickable video game where the player will click to gain points and avoid the obstacles in order to win. The objective is to energize Obama so he will come back from vacation, but the user will need to catch “Liberal Snowflakes” to keep him energized. However, there are red “Make America Great Again” Hats that are obstacles and if a hat falls on Obama, then it exhausts him and he goes back on vacation.

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  • 5 Tips for Surviving your First Week at a Coding Bootcamp

    Medium

    Week One of Coding Bootcamps can be a huge wake up call, so here are some tips for surviving the first week.

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Projects

  • React Airbnb Remake

    Airbnb is a popular and widely known house-sharing app with over 200 million users around the world. I led a team of four to develop a full stack application of Airbnb's webpage, where we created a backend with Express, Node, and PostgreSQL. My main role revolved around using React and Reactstrap to recreate the front-end design and functionality of Airbnb.

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  • Sarah's React Portfolio

    Check out my portfolio with current and based Dev projects as well as a little about me. I built this site with React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Grid & Flexbox, MapBox API, ReactStrap and Google Fonts.

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  • QualLi: a Quality of Life React App using D3

    QualLi is a web application built in React.js, which the user can type in a top city in the world from an input field, and the site will return Quality of Life score as well as the cityscape background image. The information was fetched from the Teleport Public API and will be shown using text as well as D3.js.

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  • JavaScript Game - "Come Back, Barack!"

    "Come Back Barack" is an interactive clickable video game where the player will click to gain points and avoid the obstacles in order to win. The objective is to energize Obama so he will come back from vacation, but the user will need to catch "Liberal Snowflakes" to keep him energized. However, there are red "Make America Great Again" Hats that are obstacles and if the user clicks on the red hat then Obama goes back on vacation.

    Tutorial Video for the Game
    This is a quick video…

    "Come Back Barack" is an interactive clickable video game where the player will click to gain points and avoid the obstacles in order to win. The objective is to energize Obama so he will come back from vacation, but the user will need to catch "Liberal Snowflakes" to keep him energized. However, there are red "Make America Great Again" Hats that are obstacles and if the user clicks on the red hat then Obama goes back on vacation.

    Tutorial Video for the Game
    This is a quick video that overviews the objective of Come Back Barack and how to play the game. https://share.vidyard.com/watch/BqWnKgTpLjZzvvLA6D96EC

    Link to Play the Game
    Here is the link to "Come Back, Barack!" https://pages.git.generalassemb.ly/smcurrey528/come-back-barack/play.html

    Technologies Used
    For this project, I used JavaScript, HTML and CSS.



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Honors & Awards

  • AWS "Above and Beyond" Award

    Amazon Web Services

  • Graduated Cum Laude and Belmont Scholar

    Belmont University

  • Service to the Community

    Gap Inc

  • Belmont University Division of Student Affair's Bruin Award

    Belmont University

    The Bruin Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Division of Student Affairs to student leaders, is given to students who exemplified the University’s Community Commitments of personal integrity, individual worth, critical thinking, self control and community responsibility on and off campus. Recipients also displayed consistent involvement in campus life, outstanding service to the Belmont community and significant participation in campus leadership.

  • National Top Tau

    Alpha Sigma Tau

    The highest honor a member can receive from Nationals

  • Employee of the Month

    Gap Inc.

  • Belmont University's Hale Outstanding First Year Award

    President Fisher, Belmont University

    Recognizes an outstanding first-year student who has made early investments in and contributions to the Belmont community. The recipient’s emerging leadership, service, perseverance, scholarship, and faith show promise of maturing and of supporting even greater contributions in the future.

  • Earned the International Baccalaureate Diploma

    International Baccalaureate Programme

Languages

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

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