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Charlottesville City County, Virginia, United States

Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot the LuaProject.org Squarespace website by optimizing template design, correcting CSS injection errors, customizing HTML, and improving JavaScript functionality. Resolve API errors, third-party cookie issues, and media integration problems across platforms like YouTube to enhance user experience

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Create festival proposal and get board approval.Coordinate with Sin Barreras staff to help track sponsorship, food vendors and artisan vendors.Lead volunteer planning committee to designate sub- committee leads. Coordinate with vendors for advertising, marketing and other operational needs.Design the event layout at rented local venue.Solicit and coordinate volunteers for day of event.Coordinate with Sin Barreras staff to obtain insurance and operational licenses.Work with City of Charlottesville Parks & Rec for approvals.Work with Ting Pavilion for festival approvals. Create training materials for volunteers, staff, sponsors and vendors.Plan a post festival meeting to review feedback received. Work with Sin Barreras Volunteers director to solicit feedback from our volunteers.Perform news outlet and radio outlet interviews to promote event.Monitor social media platforms.Create ticketing system for purchase of tickets to event.

United States

Enhanced project delivery metrics by 25% through a new Backlog distribution process and saved over $1 million licensing fees by refining Jira support strategies wirh enterprise team. Additionally, improved data integrity and streamlined tax processes, consistently securing high tax credit thresholds across multiple years.▪ Improved deliverable metrics by 25% by building a Backlog distribution process with Engineering Leads, enhancing delivery of cloud compliances and vulnerabilities for Commercial Tech and Small Business Banking Platforms▪ Enhanced Jira support and portfolio analytics with Jira L3 Support and crafted hierarchical project strategy decoupled from Jira Align, saving $1 mil+ in licensing fees and overseeing onboarding of 30k+ issue types across 40+ projects.▪ Reduced unmet extension requests by 10% and drove company-wide focus on 2024 data integrity and process improvement cloud and vulnerability compliance distribution for project backlogs to improve delivery timeliness.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Enhanced software development processes with agile methodologies, which improved sprint commitments and release accuracy through extensive code reviews and optimized planning. Stabilized continuous delivery by instituting detailed release processes that included version tracking and automation, ensuring smoother and more efficient deployment cycles.▪ Improved sprint commitments and release accuracy by integrating agile methodologies withing software engineering processes, engaging with teams in code reviews and discussions to optimize story sizing and planning.▪ Stabilized continuous delivery cycles by developing team-level release processes, utilizing release engineering expertise to institute version tracking, Go/NoGo decision points, and automation opportunities.

Richmond, Virginia

Enhanced efficiency and collaboration of weekly HR app releases by overhauling release processes in collaboration with Human Resource Portfolio leadership, standardizing protocols based on reviews and team feedback. Led the integration of a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for Operating Management Systems and other platforms, achieving over 90% onboarding by year-end, and coordinated as the Release Engineer to optimize operations and functionality across diverse platforms.▪ Enhanced speed, efficiency, and collaboration of weekly HR app releases by collaborating with Human Resource Portfolio leadership to overhaul their release processes, with reviews and team feedback to standardize release protocol.▪ Achieved 90%+ onboarding to Jenkins by year-end by leading the CI/CD pipeline integration for Operating Management Systems, Configuration Management Systems, Enterprise Metrics & Monitoring platforms, and Human Resources apps.▪ Served as the Release Engineer, coordinating and facilitating the deployment of a diverse range of platforms to optimize operations and enhance system functionality.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Spearheaded release engineering for Operations Management, Configuration Management, and Enterprise Monitoring & Metrics systems, optimizing workflows and enhancing software deployment. Managed regular release cycles, developed standardized deployment templates to reduce setup times, and orchestrated over 100 releases across multiple apps, providing leadership for critical deployment decisions.▪ Spearheaded release engineering across Operations Management Systems, Configuration Management Systems, and Enterprise Monitoring & Metrics platforms, optimizing workflows and software deployment.▪ Managed bi-monthly and weekly release cycles, effectively coordinating software updates and system improvements to enhance business continuity and system functionality.▪ Developed and implemented standardized deployment templates, significantly improving deployment efficiency and reducing setup times across platform teams.▪ Orchestrated 100+ releases across 30+ apps within Operations Management Systems, Configuration Management Systems, and Enterprise Monitoring & Metrics to guide software engineers and technical leads for Go/No-Go decision.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

▪ Streamlined branch versioning and merging with CI/CD practices for 100+ deployments on publishing platform, with Jenkins, Visual IDE, Chef, Puppet, and GitHub, to drive reliable and timely deployments for staging and production.▪ Enhanced database integrity and prevented data corruption as interim SQL Database Administrator for Silverchair platform to support continuous updates, upgrades, and maintenance for academic journals, ensuring optimal database standards.▪ Worked alongside more than 8 Software Quality Assurance (SQA) team members, ensuring that updates to release candidates adhered to predefined quality standards and contributed to the overall reliability of the software.

▪ Led testing plan efforts for nationwide upgrade of the RALS Medical System with 4 software test engineers to develop a comprehensive Test Plan based on use case scenarios derived from requirements, architecture, and design documents.▪ Directed testing of HL-7 interface engine for RALS medical systems, HL-7 Interface protocol to design and execute test cases, ensuring accurate patient ATD data communication across hospital software platforms with 2% less defects.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

▪ Improved navigation and operational efficiency of aircraft carriers and submarines, by developing, testing, and refining C++ voyage management systems through UML design and quality testing to enhance maritime safety and control systems.▪ Enhanced operational capabilities and modernized maritime systems across multiple ship classes by orchestrating the design and implementation of Integrated Bridge System in C# for naval vessels with system integration testing.▪ Engineered Software System Safety plan with MIL-STD 882E guidelines to effectively mitigate system risks, ensuring the integration of safe and reliable bridge and radar systems within budget constraints.

No Degree, Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts; Bachelor Of Arts, Math-Computer Science; Spanish Business

Activities and Societies: President of Multi-Cultural Club, Earphone I was recipient of Dupont grant to research Latin American Business.