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Woodbury, Minnesota, Us

• Created the Formi mobile application from greenfield, helping to connect convenience stores with customer loyalty programs, targeted coupons, corporate incentives, and analytics. Used MAUI.NET, C#, and .NET Core 7 to write robust MVVM applications for both Android and iOS platforms.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 Japs-Olson Company, 9/22 - 11/22• Created middleware RESTful API gateway to sit between existing sales systems and a new microservice implementation.• Implemented windows service to handle hundreds of concurrent threads to process microservice transactions.𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬, 2/22 - 8/22• Served as principal architect and lead developer for migrating multiple ColdFusion applications into .NET. • Provided technical documentation and mentorship for other senior-level developers in order to familiarize them with MVC and .NET concepts.𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬, 9/21 - 01/22• Responsible for maintaining the existing code base for an internal MVC application, while creating additional pages and functionality. • Main tech used: ASP.NET Razor, Jquery, Javascript, SQL.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Core team-member responsible for adapting and rebuilding a VB.NET enterprise-level web application from the ground up, with primary focus on back-end microservice and API development. • Initiated an Angular 2.0 front-end with Bootstrap and Typescript, utilizing RESTful APIs in an MVC .NET Core Service Fabric environment, and SQL 2017 databases via EF Core and stored procedures (for batch operations).• Designed and built timekeeping software to stringent federal OPM and FedRAMP specifications, incorporating complex business logic to satisfy the technical requirements of a host of federal agencies (DEA, IRS, and USPTO).

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Developed a robust .NET module to incorporate the MIR Spirotel II spirometry device into our existing data warehouse platform. The application parsed through the device's FRAM and mapped its binary data array into fully-defined, object-oriented classes. Served as primary developer through all phases of the project's life cycle, including requirements gathering, architecture, interfacing with device hardware, unit testing, and final implementation.• Developed an internal stand-alone WinForms application in .NET 4.5 to aid SQM in verifying all configurable aspects of CPS. The application parsed through hundreds of lines of SQL script statements, returning a logically organized treeview of human-readable configuration values. The application reduced Validation turn-around for new clinical studies from 6 weeks to 2 weeks by reducing redundancies in testing, providing detailed descriptions for all configurable values, and improving code transparency.• Added new spirometry, ECG, and FeNO devices to the Cardio-Pulmonary Suite's application workflow, increasing our versatility and reach to clinical study managers and pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Maintained and updated the Cardio-Pulmonary Suite (CPS) application, spanning all iterations of Visual Studio. This included working with legacy VB code, WPF applications, WinForms projects, web apps, and SQL procedures. Multiple design patterns were also supported, including MVC, MVP, and MVVM.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Integrated with ValueLink to upgrade our gift card services from .NET 1.0 to 4.0. Established TCP/IP connections and implemented Diffie-Helman and SHA-1 encryption in C# to register and proctor gift card transactions. • Integrated with Vibes Mobile services to manage text alerts for our Stuff-fur-Stuff club customers. Created a C# wrapper class and Web UI to handle subscribe, unsubscribe, and update requests for our guests.• Finished complete modernization of the existing Build-a-Bear Careers site, including new CSS formatting, enhanced job finder tools, and converting our data layer from simple stored procedures to ADO.NET and Entity Framework. The three existing international sites were also condensed into one, with tools incorporated to easily switch from one country's career information to another.• Wrote new administrative tools to allow HR to effectively parse through thousands of international job applications and internship requests, prioritizing and queuing applications as needed. Created additional reporting tools and web services to allow the HR team to quickly post new job openings and highlight existing jobs in critical areas.• Upgraded and maintained the Build-a-Bear RSVP site, where guests could reserve products or sign up for events across the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. The site featured bilingual support, smart inventory checks, queuing for confirmation and reminder emails, and an administrative site where our Marketing team could add and update products and descriptions of events. The website was written using MVP, with the back-end combining WCF service calls, ADO stored procedures, and EF to manage data stored in MS SQL 2008.

Us

• Worked closely with lead programmer, content/web designers and QA to provide optimal client solutions, developing .NET content and tools for a variety of new and existing web-based applications, including Complete Plus, Anheuser Busch, Purina, and Litle Tikes.• Utilized WCF, MVC, workflows, activities, the entity framework, and RESTful services, keeping up-to-date with current programming trends and best practices.• Developed a custom, stand-alone interface for calling MailChimp web services, utilizing the existing API to efficiently create and send transactional web campaigns and manage list data.

New York, New York, Us

• Performed outbound and inbound customer service calls to assist and provide options to customers with delinquent loans.• Exceeded bank objectives by using problem-solving, empathy, and interpersonal skills to prevent over 70% of my contacts from defaulting on their loans.

• Graduated from a 14-week intensive training program specializing in sought after .NET technologies.• Constructed a 3-tiered public library program from the ground up, including the GUI, business layer, data access layer, and stored procedures in SQL Server 2008.

Us

• Developed front-end code for a military simulation program utilizing motion-capture technology and the America's Army game engine.• Refactored existing C# code for our Engine Agnostic Interface (EAI) to improve code coverage and functionality.• Designed and implemented a prototype to update our Mission Control GUI.

New York, New York, Us

• Analyzed customer credit history and extended new lines of personal credit based on risk factors and previous payment history.• Exceeded productivity by 250% while also maintaining 100% quality over 3 years.• Was ranked #1 across both SD and MD sites in the New Business department.

Software Engineering, Game Programming / Design

Certification, Software Engineering