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Texas, United States

Texas, United States

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Overland Park, Ks, Us

* Updated legacy systems to .NET Core* Implemented new features to customer-facing web application* Optimized various back-end processes* Breaking up monolithic architecture into microservices

Sandy Springs, Georgia, Us

Joined dedicated team to help support the needs of Dealer.com's biggest OEM customer, FordDirect. In the process, I helped improve the platform and connected back-end systems.* Increased efficiency/throughput of image processing service by 10x through a major refactor* Migrated some on-prem hosted services to AWS using ECS, ECR, Lambda, CloudFront, and DynamoDB* Deployed AWS services utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt (Infrastructure as Code)* Created React-based payment calculator widget and greatly improved vehicle media widget.* Worked as part of a high-performing SCRUM team, participating in story creation & refinement, prioritization, sizing, and pair programming.* Mentored others on software engineering best practices

Develop features and updates for Azure cloud-based distillery management software using C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Azure SQL, Telerik/Kendo UI and JavaScript. Provide customer support on added features.* Created barrel warehouse mapping features for tracking barrels kept on and offsite.* Added system for automating the delivery of e-mail alerts and distillery reports on a schedule using Azure job scheduling and REST services.* Added offsite warehousing capabilities, including offsite barrel filling and importing.* Optimized database access, improved page load times, researched and drove best practices in many areas.

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked as part of the Service Automation team developing solutions to automate the installation, upgrade and monitoring of wide area mission critical communications systems. Practiced full life-cycle development: gather requirements, research, design, prototype, develop and test Windows desktop, service and web applications. * Took development lead to create software to automate the installation, upgrade and monitoring of wide area communication networks using WPF, WCF, REST services, and the VMware vSphere SDK for .NET.* Created APIs and frameworks such as a library for interacting with vSphere that was shared across development team.* Automated the installation and upgrade of virtualized servers using C#, WPF and VMware APIs.* Created and manage an intranet web portal for team tools and services used across the organization using C#, ASP.NET, Telerik controls, JavaScript, and an Oracle database back-end.* Created a custom role-based security system to fit our unique security requirements.* Advised on technology decisions for application development.* Worked with other development and product teams to create end-to-end automated solutions.* Assisted in effort to update suite of engineering tools from WebForms and some WinForms apps to ASP.NET MVC.* Develop a JavaScript web application to visualize networked system designs and cable routing in 3D using ThreeJS.

Millersville, Md, Us

Worked at Motorola as a contractor to develop automation tools.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Contracted by Root Learning, Inc. to customize open-source phpBB software for a creative learning tool for one of their customers.* Provided a communication layer between phpBB and a flash-based application* Customized phpBB to show interactive flash-based learning modules and to allow users to rate and comment on them* Re-skinned phpBB to provide a seamless interface between the two applications

Computer Science, Computer Science

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