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• IT Leadership, Infrastructure Strategy, Cloud Computing, & Software Engineering
• Direct multi-national organization in technological initiatives.
• Spearhead the architectural design and implementation of multi-phase projects, tailoring solutions to meet staff and user expectations.
• Perform tech analysis, devising scaling strategies for short-term needs and long-term growth.
• Optimize operational costs, saving roughly 18% annually on AWS expenses.
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure, including EC2 Auto-Scaling Groups, RDS, Lambda/Code Deploy, SES, SNS, and S3 storage.

• Software Engineering & Frontend Architecture
• Collaborate with a team of software engineers to engineer and support a full-scale language analytics application used by thousands of enterprise customers, written in Vue.js and Yii2 PHP frameworks.
• Introduce AWS Cloudwatch for comprehensive uptime monitoring, ensuring 99.8% service availability.
• Create Puppeteer web-crawler in Node.Js to consume API data from external job sites to enrich our proprietary tag-based, AI smart-editor.
• Leverage JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and frontend tools to deploy front-end features such as filters, dashboards, smart-editors, data visualizations, graphing, and uptime analytics.
• Improve build tooling and CI/CD deployment flow with Webpack, Vite, and Docker configurations.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Web Application Development & Continuous Integration
• Develop, test, and deploy suite of full stack web applications built in Coldfusion and Angular.
• Perform UX/UI design and browser-compliant programming that meets ADA, security, and mobile responsive design standards.
• Interface with Oracle ERP databases via SQL, LDAP/active directories, APIs, and webservices.
• Compose standalone Java applets for campus mobile app.
• Configure, monitor, and upgrade RHEL 7 ColdFusion web servers to ensure consistent service.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Web & Mobile App Development
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, custom web and mobile applications to support both internal and external healthcare operations and services.
• Engineer responsive UI for mobile and web using SASS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular 6, Material Design, and Ionic, ensuring mobile responsiveness, ADA compliance, and security best practices.
• Unify and standardize form validation suite throughout the proprietary Member Mobile App.
• Build new UI for benefits search service using REST API calls and RXJS.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

🌱 Wurld: Environmental Impact AppLed the development of Wurld, an app driving positive environmental change. Empowers users to track contributions and engage in friendly environmental competitions. Utilized Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, VueJS, Bootstrap, and PostgresSQL.🚀 Actualize CRM: Lead Management SolutionKey role in developing Actualize's CRM.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Help Desk Operations Manager & Project Leader
• Managed CTS and University projects, including office redesign and VPN client deployment.
• Led a team of 6 full-time employees and 11 student employees, overseeing hiring and training
• Collaborated with University departments and CTS teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Implemented quality assurance measures through customer surveys, enhancing customer relations.
• Spearheaded multi-phase campus security initiative, ensuring campus-wide safety.

• Technical Support Specialist & Identity Management Administrator
• Troubleshot internet networking, hardware, software, and user account inquiries.
• Managed confidential user identities for various Duquesne systems, enhancing security.
• Streamlined interdepartmental processes for efficient database security permissions.
• Installed and maintained Alcatel-Lucent telecommunication system for Help Desk.
• Compiled and analyzed data for development of Footprints online knowledge center.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• 📚 Adult Education Instructor & Program Coordinator
• Designed and delivered curricula for adult learners in various subjects.
• Managed file-sharing workgroup between 20 desktop computers.
• Maintained program documentation for local refugees, ensuring adherence to organization standards.
• Coordinated collective service work with local non-profit organizations.
• Contributed over 900 hours of direct service to the community.

Associate’S Degree, Web Design And Development

Full Stack Web Developer, Web Development/Software Development

I took the intensive, 3-month Actualize bootcamp, where I learned Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, VueJS, and more. But most importantly, I.

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy