Resume | Andrew Gioia

Andrew is a newly minted attorney and freelance web developer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He watches baseball, drinks tea, and experiments with technology and the internet.

Education.

August 2007 – May 2010
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Juris Doctor, May 2010.
- Contributing Editor, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.
- Note published, FCC Jurisdiction Over ISPs in Protocol Specific Bandwidth Throttling, 15 MICH. TELECOMM. TECH. L. REV. 517 (2009).
- Campbell Moot Court participant.
- Business Law Association, Catholic Law Student Association.
- Fred L. Leckie Law Scholarship and Justice Lawrence B. Lindemer Scholarship recipient.
August 2003 – May 2007
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, May 2007; Government, Information Science.
- Pi Sigma Alpha government honors society.
- Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
- Editor-in-chief, The Cornell American, a bi-weekly campus political newspaper with a circulation of 2500.
- Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia, Rumsey Scholarship recipient.

Employment.

2008 – Present
Rubin, Fortunato & Harbison, P.C., Paoli, PA.
- Associate Attorney
- Focus in post-employment litigation, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and securities industry arbitration.
Summer 2006
The Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC.
- Research Intern, Domestic Policy group.
- Worked closely with domestic policy analysts researching federal spending, healthcare, and family issues.
Summer 2005
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Philadelphia, PA.
- Research and Technology Intern.
- Researched American university policies on First Amendment-related issues for Spotlight, FIRE's nation-wide academic liberty and speech codes project; case preparation and legal research.

Projects.

Schoolbinder
- Lead user interface designer
- Develop and design the front-facing web and mobile interfaces for Schoolbinder's classroom management application, student research tools, and back-end administrative applications.

Interests & Qualifications.

- Web programming languages: standards compliant XHTML and CSS, PHP (and the CodeIgniter framework), Javascript (and the jQuery framework), SQL, Titanium Appcelerator Mobile and Desktop frameworks.
- Conversant in Italian.
- Acoustic guitar, digital audio mixing, technology, baseball, and sabrmetrics.