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Dallas, Texas, Us

Belcourt, Nd, Us

As the Software Engineer Manager my time fluctuated between IC and management.Management responsibilities - Lead a team of 5-10 direct reports - Mentored developers in both hard and soft skills, helping them advance their careers - Recruited and built teams, including resume filtering, interviews, and technical interviews - Worked with leadership to prioritize and define success - Performed project planning, requirement gathering and secured leadership buy-in - Collaborated with multiple departments to build and ship features - Helped determine feasibility and level of effort of request - Wrote requirement docs and user storiesDev responsibilities - Continued to build out our next phase of a fully configurable underwriting pipeline (scala, python) - Proposed and reviewed designs for features and infrastructure - SME on our Underwriting system - Built CLI and CI tooling - Continued to work with the data science team to bring ML models to production

Belcourt, Nd, Us

As a developer I primarily worked on two different distributed systems.Fully Configurable Underwriting SystemThis was a complete and successful rewrite of the existing monolith into microservices.- Tech stack: scala, cats, cats-effect, http4s, circe, kafka, python- Built a small interpreted DSL that allows the business to write eligibility rules- Helped design and build the orchestration system that powers all of our underwriting systems- Developed our primary service responsible for fetching external data sources- Designed and implemented a shim service that allowed the new underwriting services to run in parallel with the existing monolith, ensuring parity in results- Collaborated with the data science team to ensure their modeling code was robust and production ready- Designed and built our data science model service, allowing us to deploy a new model in minutes vs weeksLead Buying Pipeline- Tech stack, Scala, cats, cats-effect, http4s, circe, kafka, flink w/ stateful functions, python- Developed a web service to host data science models, enabling real-time lead scoring- Implemented a mechanism for data scientists to swap out models in real time- Optimized Flink requests by batching them for more efficient use of Pandas dataframes- Designed and implemented multiple processing nodes, including stream filtering, data transformations, data fetching, request deduplication, and CDC processing- Orchestrated control flow logic for leads in the pipeline

New York, Ny, Us

- As a member of the fullstack team we were responsible for full feature lifecycle: design, backend and frontend- Helped members of the team understand the functional patterns we used in our frontend- Built React components and views using functional design patterns and libraries such as recompose and lodash/fp- Upgraded microservices from SpringBoot 1 to SpringBoot 2 and from Java8 to Java11- On application support team I triaged customer and engineer reported issues and performed remediation

Farmington, Ct, Us

My previous startup Predikto was acquired by UTC in August 2018.- Continued to build out and support the Predikto platform.- With another engineer rewrote our REST based tooling with Python 3.7 and Flask.- Rewrote and added functionality to our config linter.- Used a lot of meta programing features to auto generate our SDK from our Flask webapp, including rewriting the AST and converting the AST to source code.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Predikto was acquired by UTC in August 2018. :)Built and maintained the UI for our internal tooling used by both our data scientist and other engineers.- Visual editor for graphs (think graph networks, not charts, but also built charts)- Log viewer and querier- Topology and backend/runtime status viewer- Visual editors for internal services and customer roll outs- Visual editor for ad hoc ElasticSearch queries- CI and deployment pipeline with Jenkins, Kubernetes and DockerFor both our internal tooling above and customer facing webapp I contributed by:- Creating a cmd line app that templates our Angular widget setup (templates, wiring, naming, etc)- Built out reusable widgets and components for Angular 1.5 and D3I also contributed to both our customer facing APIs and internal systems (Python, Flask). Worked with another engineer to build a custom schema migration tool. (Python).Triaged data science issues (Python).

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Worked for multiple clients while at CodeSmith, two of the larger products were:Built a calendar/patient scheduling app (think similar to Google Calendar) for a medical client into their existing software. Was responsible for all front end work (JavaScript, jQuery, CSS), REST endpoints, and SQL.An in browser PDF markup tool using JavaScript, PDF.js, Angular, and Foundation CSS that allowed users to interactively draw boxes and annotate PDFs for processing with another service. Was responsible for initial project setup, build pipeline (Gulp), pdf rendering, interaction and annotations.

Peachtree Corners, Georgia, Us

My main responsibilities focused on our internal system's health, maintenance, and setup and supporting our services techs by being the 'go to person' for writing SQL queries and advanced troubleshooting.In my final months I moved into a development role focusing on Unit and Integration test to help ensure that regressions did not appear.• Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for all DocAuto products.• Perform QA, create and update test scripts, create bug reports and enhancement request• Create and update documentation, strategy guides and videos• Manage internal systems: VMWare ESX 5.x, Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange 2010, HP Autonomy WorkSite, HP Autonomy IDOL, Sharepoint, MS-SQL 2008, Backups, SANs, Switches, Server hardware and more• Demonstrate and present applications to current and prospective clients• Create Proof of Concepts• Technical resource for solutions\​services team.• Services engagements: Training on products, document library consolidation, assistance with MCC design and implementation, document importing, client documentation and analysis

St. Louis, Mo, Us

I successfully supported more than 50,000 users using more than 70 different systems in more than 400 offices in 18 countries around the world.• Perform troubleshooting help for over a hundred different applications• Answer calls/emails/voice mails and document trouble tickets in a timely fashion• Remote into users machine to assist them in their tasks• Update the knowledge base with information to help all analyst• Reset and unlock accounts, and resynchronize key fobs• Assist users in working remotely with tools such as Citrix and VPN

Rocklin, Ca, Us

• Oversee day-to-day operations and maintenance of two large format printers and two high quality small format printers• Perform daily calibrations and preventative maintenance to ensure correct color quality of prints within very narrow quality control guidelines• Prepare media surfaces to print including bond, card and glossy stock papers as well as specialty surface printing including gatorboard, cardboard and vinyl banners• Mount and finish prints to back boards and cut bleeds• Adjust print files for best quality and output using PosterShop and Wasatch• Maintaining printer supply inventory including inks, solvent and flushing fluid• Seeing multiple projects through to completion within strict time frames• Up to date product knowledge and continued education with machine training• Training others to properly use printers

Akron, Oh, Us

• Diagnose basic automobile problems and resolved in a timely manner• Perform top quality repairs and maintenance to ensure safety of customers• Mount, balance, rotate and inspect tires• Check, flush and change automobile fluids including motor oil, transmission fluid and brake fluid• Led others in a team atmosphere• Maintain a clean and safe workplace in accordance with county and state regulations• Provide exceptional customer service and ensured customer satisfaction• Trained new hires in proper use of shop equipment and safety

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Bachelor Of Arts, Media Arts And Animation