Charlie Cuddy.


Husband, Dad, High School Math Teacher, Head Varsity Track and Cross Country Coach, and Learning to Code

Career Goal:

To become a valuable member of a school or company that builds relationships and/or software to change the future — utilizing my teaching and coaching background, my master's degree in leadership and curriculum, and my passion for learning, specifically about computer programming and technology to add another dimension to the team.

A Few of My Coding Projects

laptop computer

Written with: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and Gimp




FlashCard App [Ruby on Rails]

Blog with Database [Ruby on Rails]

Calculator [JavaScript]

Estimate Pi [JavaScript]

Wheat Field [JavaScript]

Pig Latin [JavaScript]

Friend Requested Daily Diet Checklist [HTML5&CSS3 & jQuery]

Tip Calculator [codepen]

Finance Tracker [Ruby on Rails]

To Do List [JavaScript]

This Site! [HTML5&CSS3 & JavaScript]



Check out my GitHub for additional projects

A Quick Bit About Me

My wife, Jenny, is my best friend. She is a high school English teacher, and the perfect role model for our three daughters, and son: our oldest, Josie, and our twins, Jax and Penny, and our youngest Cash. They are my life.

I spend most of my free time with them, my brothers, sister, parents, and cousins.

Anything I can get my hands on and learn about I'm interested in. I am currently teaching myself how to code, and this was the focus of my master's capstone project.

I would also enjoy working to improve my Spanish.

Ruby on Rails
JavaScript
jQuery
HTML5
CSS3
Git
C#
.NET
ASP.NET
Visual Studio

•Communication

-Written and spoken communication with people of all ages and walks of life, through almost a decade of teaching, coaching, and parent contact has been vital to my success.

•Long Term Planning

-Hire and assign positions to assistant coaches.

-Design workouts for my student-athletes as a whole team, and on an individual basis.

-Develop curriculum that fits needs of students while staying within the time frame of a semester

•Organization and Management

-Oversee the operation of four varsity sports teams: boys and girls cross country and boys and girls track.

-Led development for Interface in regards to marketing, research and recruitment.

•Building Relationships

-Create a family atmosphere of teamwork and trust with other teachers, in my classroom as well as with the teams I coach.

•Strong Work Ethic and Self-Motivated

-Take initiative and anticipate issues and obstacles, in order to remain proactive instead of reactive

-I am an intrinsically motivated individual.

•Flexible yet Assertive

-Adjust lessons and workouts to fit the needs of the students, while keeping focus on the overall goals.

•Some of my Favorite Things

-Doing anything with my family

-Podcasts, specifically Freakonomics

-Making people laugh

-Reading, specifically Malcolm Gladwell

-Sports, specifically running, football, and basketball

-Fantasy Football

Education and Experience

Midland University

August 2014 — July 2016

•My Capstone Project: Research the impact of computer science in a math classroom with low income and minority students

Example of Classes:

•Learn to lead in a diverse environment

•Develop curriculum that matters to people

Program Description

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

August 2006 — May 2010

•Teaching Certification: Math Grades 7-12

•Coaching Certification

Undergraduate Curriculum

Omaha Bryan High School

August 2010 — Present

•Created class to introduce students to computer programming in partnership with BrickLayer

•Responsible for state testing of juniors

•Collaborate with math department

•ACT Prep Instructor

•Recruit students to get involved in extra curricular activities

Bryan High School Website

Omaha Bryan High School

August 2010 — Present

•Size of cross country and track teams grew by 400% and 220% respectively in my time as head coach

•Multiple state competitors, medalists, and school records set

•Developed a handbook to help athletes set and track reasonable goals

Agape Red.

2015

•Sat in on development meetings

•Minor debugging

•Collaborated with a development team

•Participated Through Metro Community College and Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

Interface: The Web School.

2016

•Led development for marketing [with KOVUS], research [with Dundee Advisors], and recruitment

•Managed Interface WordPress and social media sites

•Co-ran two local Meetups, Coffee and Code & Wine and Code

PayPal

2017

• Shadowed VP of Service Delivery and Engineering, Dar Andrews

• Daily one on one meetings with individuals from technology, management, and operations

Do Space

2017

• Design a curriculum from a day long workshop, to a semester long class using BrickLayer.org to accomplish the following, and more

• Design and code artifacts that can be 3D printed, code hosted on GitHub.

• Create a model of Memorial Stadium by writing code that can be 3D printed , rendered in high definition, and/or uploaded onto a Minecraft server and explored.

Note: The curriculum is designed so that someone with no previous coding experience, can begin learning to create with code on the first day visiting the site.

Links to Newspaper Articles about the Fellowship: Omaha World Herald News Article from August 6, 2017.
Silicon Prairie News Article from July 20, 2017.

My Gallup Strength Finder Themes

“ People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive. ” —Achiever
“ People strong in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it. ” —Restorative
“ People strong in the Competition theme measure their progress against the performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests. ” —Competition
“ People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them. ” —Learner
“ People strong in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don't enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement. ” —Harmony

References

Dr. Victor
Winter

victor.winter@bricklayer.org

PhD, professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Nebraska-Omaha

Creator of Bricklayer.org

LaShonna
Dorsey

Can be reached through Facebook

Sr. Business Systems Consultant

Mutual of Omaha

Tracy
Wernsman

teresa.wernsman@ops.org

Assistant Principal Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School

Title I Director

Nancy
Christensen

christensen@midlandu.edu

Graduate Studies Instructor: Leadership in Curriculum, Midland University

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