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Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Develop long lasting relationships through hard work, quality output,positive attitude, and networking.• Create and convert WordPress sites to ecommerce sites.• Develop stand alone and Shopify websites.• Redesign back end architecture.• Repair hardware and software (servers, viruses, etc.)• Maintain all of our products with 24/7 support.• Hire and mentor developers through their careers.• Work on a global scale with clients and external vendors.• Design, develop, and mentor on greenfield projects.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Managing IT staff and developing department goals.• Developing and overseeing the IT budget• Planning, deploying, and maintaining IT systems and operations.• Managing the organization's software development needs.• Developing IT policies, procedures, and best practices.• Staying updated on IT trends and emerging technologies.• Developing and enforcing IT best practices across the organization,• Ensuring IT strategies and processes support company-wide goals.• Overseeing relationships with vendors, contractors, and service providers.• Explaining to the board of directors and other executives the benefits and risks of new IT-related projects.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Securing the entire information systems environment.• Overseeing and assisting applicable personnel in their day-to-day operations to secure the environment, and researching and developing information security standards for the organization as a whole.• Providing overall direction, guidance, leadership, and support on methods and tools for the implementation of a program that governs the acceptable use of sensitive information in the environment.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Conduct resource and investment planning to implement the management, operational, and technical privacy requirements of the Privacy program.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Daily operational oversight of all incident response initiative.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Overseeing the development and dissemination of technology for external customers, vendors, and other clients to help improve and increase business.• Help in the presentation of our product from a technical side and work through technical aspects with possible clients and investors.• Work to secure funding to ensure we have ample runway.• Responsible for maintaining the strategic focus of the project and is in charge of turning a concept into reality.• Making business-critical tech decisions, such as tech design planning, product architecture layout, and development platform selection.• If a tech team doesn’t have the knowledge or resources to complete a task, then it is down to the CTO to find a solution.• Handle tech tasks concerning first product iteration.• Tech process backup also falls to the CTO, even if they have a huge budget and can hire team members to execute MVP-related tasks.• It is impossible to hire all the required specialists immediately, which means that the CTO has to regularly fill the gaps with their skills and time.• Build the tech side of the product from scratch including features, server interactions, scripts, deployment stage maps, and SSHs.• Hire a team• Organizing training activities for the tech department, self-education support, and team supervision.• Cybersecurity - security procedure development, algorithm development, conducting emergency audits, and much more• Think about the future, maps it, and then implements the step-by-step plan.• Builds a growth roadmap, taking into consideration corporate goals and strategies.• Works with various aspects of a digital product — development, UX, security, budgets, operational processes, and team coordination.• Be up to date and understand trends in the Financial and FinTech industries.• Have awareness of competitors technology and direction.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Building front end components for internal and external use (React)• Working to maintain data integrity and accessibility to said data(PSQL/Firesstore)• Creating and maintaining an app that our property owners use to seeall their data/metrics (React Native, iOS/Android)• Helping to train and mentor Jr. Developers• Leading and Managing a team of 7 to accomplish all requests andproduce quality software• Planning and creation of stories/epics and breaking them down toindividually completable tasks.• Mentoring interns and apprentice developers.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Setting up data visualizations (React,Node)• Creating and maintaining data pipelines, schemas, and queries (psql,xml,node)• Deploying pods to EKS and managing all permissions in AWS

Kansas City, Mo, Us

• Developing and maintaining greenfield front end applications(React, Redux, Material UI, Typescript, Storybook, Jest).• Securing endpoints and data (IndexDB, encryption, user roles).• Setting up e2e testing environment using test café and cucumber.• Updating backend services (Java)• Working with our Architect to help with CI/CD (MS Azure DevOps)• Troubleshooting services and web applications.• Developing complex components to display and manipulate data.

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

•Constructing docker containers for React (client) and Node.js (server) projects.•Automating containers using docker compose.•Porting an old .NET application to Web using React and redux.•Versioning of code with bitbucket and git.•Setting up bitbucket pipelines to use when deploying to AWS.•Using Jira to display progress on projects, bugs, and features.•Working on back end services in node.js, querying databases for data using sequelize.•Building many serverless lambda’s to transfer data to outside vendors

Overland Park, Ks, Us

•Developing and maintaining front end applications (React, Angular, JS).•Converting all python code to 3.6.•Upgrading GjsLinter to Eslinter for JS, Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.•Maintaining Jenkins docker instances.•Securing tools and utilities (based on information from IT Sec).•Automating setup of local environment for software engineers.•Setting up e2e testing environment for mobile using Appium.•Migrating GAE services to lambda services.•Focusing on continuous integration and continuous development.•Migrating Mlab databases to Atlas.•Troubleshooting services and web applications (GAE, AWS).•Developing and maintaining mobile applications (Kotlin, Java, Swift4).

Unity Village, Mo, Us

•Automating the creation of LAMP server and Drupal 7/8 multisite (bash).•Consolidating and streamlining dev delivery process (Scrum Master).•Setting up and maintaining versioning server (Bitbucket).•Automating the setup for the local development environment (MAMP stack, Git, Sourcetree, Homebrew, composer, bash).•Rebuilding multiple mobile apps for Android and iOS (Swift, ObjC, Java). •Localizing mobile apps for Spanish (iOS, Android).•Migrating, building, and maintaining Alexa Skills (AWS lambda, Node.js).•Maintaining, updating, and expanding e-commerce sites (c#, .NET , MVC, Webforms, WINS stack).•Setting up and tracking of analytics (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics)

Overland Park, Ks, Us

•Maintaining developer environments and servers (Linux, Vagrant, VirtualBox). •Developing kinesis applications for AWS (Java, Python). •Programming kernel level services (C, C++). •Developing web service endpoints (APEX,PHP, JSON, XML, SOAP). •Creating and maintaining deployment packages for services (RPMs). •Working to display relevant device data to customers (MySQL, PSQL, Java).

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Developing task specific solutions in the form of scripts and programs (full Stack).• Automating mundane and repetitive tasks for all departments in the company. • Automating and maintaining tasks for clientele as a service.• Working with external companies to enhance their software for their clients.• Designing, developing, testing, implementing new and existing databases.• Documentation of scripts, programs, processes, and standards as creating them• Deployment of said technologies

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Repaired problematic devices of all types, across a multitude of locations• Adhered to numerous service tickets in a timely manner• Developed task specific solutions• Taught and spread knowledge of technology and uses• Cultivated strong relations with customer base

New York, New York, Us

•Managed product development from conception through implementation.•Offered analysis and approvals of RMAC impacts.•Maintained data, project change requests and impact estimates.•Coordinated team of IT leads to baseline technology project requests and business requirement documents.•Pooled resources, ran kick-off and status calls for multiple projects.•Co-Managed a project producing and estimated $30,000,000 in savings every year

•Managed and trained a staff of a dozen employees throughout six locations. •In charge of opening and closing procedures, including cashing out at night.

• Worked with several teams to complete rigorous tasks, including remodeling basements, bathrooms and kitchens.• Completed solo projects such as replacing dishwashers, hanging sheet rock and laying tile.

•Provided strategic marketing and sales expertise to the company during its breakthrough into the American market.•Made sales calls to retailers and wholesalers throughout the state of Missouri.

•Led a team of 10 to re-format and set up the district’s computer system.•Improved, installed and removed hardware and software at 14 schools.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business

High School Diploma