Ben Petersen Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

• USDA Project (5/2021 – Present) – Dev lead providing front end agile development on a team of seven building out a portion of Conservation Desktop a GIS application in managing USDA Easement Boundaries using React.
• Mitigated risks and increased stability of the application by creating a GIS mock library and solely implemented unit and integration tests from the ground up, increasing test coverage from 2% to 70% after 1 year (35%.
• Mitigated risks and increased stability of the application by creating a GIS mock library and solely implemented unit and integration tests from the ground up, increasing test coverage from 2% to 70% after 1 year (35%.
• Incorporated entitlement and role based authorization checks into the application, only allowing boundary managers to make changes and integrated these into business rules
• Implemented toast/growl notifications into the project based on UX guidance, after it was available, I shared and taught others about the new component which allowed several teams to easily add 508 compliant.
• Mitigate concerns early in the process by highlighting potential concerns during refinement, lead development work and help team understand the code base and giving them a hand when askedInternal Asset Management.

Greater Denver Area

• Senior Full Stack Developer on key Operational Support Systems including a reporting system and an order entry system integrating and coordinated with many unique systems. Handling 500,000 API requests daily, 40,000.
• Planned and converted repositories in monolithic application to micro services using REST, SOAP… Show more
• Planned and converted repositories in monolithic application to micro services using REST, SOAP,.NET Core and migrated from Entity Framework to Dapper utilizing Test Driven Development, Hexagonal Architecture and CORS
• Mentored junior developers by leading design sessions involving a deep dive of acceptance criteria in JIRA, development tasks and pair programmed implementation details; keeping development standards high with a flux.
• Migrated KendoUI and Angular 1.6 to Angular 7 by creating services, reusable components and ensuring the functionality wasn’t impacted
• Enhanced an automated build process using PowerShell to include running SQL Server and Oracle scripts which reduced the effort deploying to test environments and production

Boulder, Colorado

• Provided ongoing agile development and deployment using.NET Web API, MVC, Vue.js, Node and Express for six large scale financial sites, 300,000 investors and advisers utilizing agile and a continuous integration.
• Re-designed financial sheets by integrating with a different data provider, using C#, NVDA, and nUnit, resulting in an accessible multi-table structure with varied indentation and sizing
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• Analyzed, documented and developed document restrictions in C# and SQL Server resulting in new and uploaded documents to be processed real-time.
• Re-architected investing forums using Vue.js, Node.js and Express by integrating internal SQL calls with external APIs into meaningful RESTful APIs with Swagger specs to assist building reusable ES6 frontend components.
• Planned and implemented site-wide asynchronous data calls by upgrading MVC and WebAPI applications to the latest internal framework version,.NET 4.5 and MVC 5, reducing page load times by 1-2 seconds

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

• Designed, developed, and maintained several high traffic dealership and search products for thousands of users, within a team of six
• Developed localized search results by integrating with a zipcode API and rewrite URL rules, which increased unique users by 52% (1.5 million) per month and brought search ranking to top 3 after one month
• Overhauled the user interface for a critical inventory tool, by incorporating KnockoutJS, resulting in decreased customer service calls of over… Show more
• Overhauled the user interface for a critical inventory tool, by incorporating KnockoutJS, resulting in decreased customer service calls of over 12%
• Co-developed a dealer paperwork auto-filler system for state and federal forms, including the re-write of pdf mapping process to allow easy modification and filling of 130 pdfs, all with little PM guidance or processes
• Addressed performance bottlenecks in.NET and View State by identifying and eliminating unnecessary requests and reducing complex filtering

Brookings, South Dakota

• Developed a quiz application for classrooms using Phonegap and SQLite within a team of four
• Delivered a test generator for teachers, automatic grading, and providing reports using Java, MySQL, and Eclipse IDE
• Headed a reporting tool for social media efforts through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn APIs; decreased time for generating reports
• Key Technologies Used: PHP, Java, Twitter and Facebook API’s, MySQL, PhoneGap, jQuery, and FileZilla

Faribault, MN

• Shadowed several consultant developers and senior developers while learning WPF, Microsoft MapPoint, SQL Server Express, and Windows Phone Development
• Observed WPF application did not allow for flexibility in design; pursued the MVVM pattern and consulted about possible changes to their application

Red Wing, MN

• Minimized risk for upcoming monolithic database re-design and migration; tested stored procedures during different phases of testing and implemented fixes.
• Built user authorization web site to capture employee info for remote access and building fobs using C#, SQL Server, HTML and CSS
• Key Technologies Used: C#, SQL Server, Visual Studio Tests, HTML, CSS

Brookings, South Dakota

• Designed, developed and distributed custom email templates for marketing campaigns
• Worked as part of a five person team to peer review HTML and CSS effectively for browser standards
• Key Technologies Used: MailChimp, Html, CSS

Lauderdale, MN

• Evaluated and proposed a robust web store that integrated with their in-store POS system
• Implemented a custom Magneto POS site, mastered templates, integrated with QuickBooks through Webgility, all despite an aggressive timetable
• Key Technologies Used: PHP, CSS, Magneto CMS, Templates, Photoshop, QuickBooks