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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Implementation Planning: Ensured successful project completion by analyzing, documenting, and handing off an unplanned capital calls feature breakdown for a minimal viable product (MVP). The hand off team achieved "product-only requirements" significantly under the project timeline.DevOps: Reduced front-end build times by ~95% for fresh app builds using AI-driven shell scripting.Implementation Planning: Ensured successful project completion by analyzing, documenting, and handing off an unplanned capital calls feature breakdown for a minimal viable product (MVP).Monorepo: Significantly improved efficiency by migrating to an NX monorepo with task caching, eliminating the need for over a dozen libraries to recompile and re-run tsconfig, eslint, and Jest scripts per development run.Code Refactoring: Implemented snapshot testing and overhauled underlying logic, uncovering and resolving ~30 unknown user-facing bugs in a complex offer process workflow.Mentoring: Mentored 5 team members with courses in debugging with Chrome dev tools.

United States

Angular: Integrated an Angular application with a custom DBMS, meeting contract timelines.SEO: Improved website visibility, achieving a second-place search result for targeted keywords through strategic search engine optimization.UX/UI Implementation: Revamped UX, resulting in increased application usage, by leveraging expertise in CSS.

Austin, Texas, United States

Lean IT: Identified and implemented a data pre-fetch strategy to save 3500 hours per year in perceived load times.Mentoring: Offered a transformative summer internship experience, culminating in a job offer and feedback praising the intern's senior-level competencies.Leadership: Engineered a full-stack solution, led developer team to deliver a new feature providing asynchronous data updates to hundreds of employees within a shared workflow.Rapid Skill Growth: Over two years, collaborated with contractors to rapidly develop 4 greenfield Angular apps used by thousands of employees in claims department, mastering Angular on the fly.Documentation: Launched a Docsify website in a week, enhancing on-call documentation searchability, reducing bug counts, and surpassing Tier-3 KPIs.Team Standardization: Enhanced domain team's proficiency, enabling immediate codebase contributions by sharing expertise and fostering pair-programming sessions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Agile Development: Introduced a custom photo viewer application within a two-month Agile cycle, replacing a costly and outdated vendor implementation and saving the company 130 employee hours daily.RESTful APIs: Implemented dozens of RESTful API through a design first approach with Swagger, facilitating seamless integration for front-end applications.Query Optimization: Optimized complex MSSQL stored procedures, reducing query response time from timeouts to under 5 seconds.CSS Expertise: Conducted an interactive CSS crash course for a internal developer community, earning recognition and the moniker "CSS Guru."UX Design: Designed a custom video player, supporting a new application to play back claims videos.Legacy Remediation: Swiftly addressed deprecated functionalities across all applications, bolstering security and facilitating app updates to HTML5.

Personal Website: Built a personal site using Astro.js, integrating the View Transitions API for improved user navigation.CMS / Wordpress: Crafted WordPress web pages with enhanced features such as contact forms and photo galleries.SEO Conversion: Boosted a choir's website traffic and conversion rates by over 2x through expert design and SEO strategies.

Data Analytics: Provided insightful lead time chart that gave the first clear picture of where investigation was needed by using Microsoft Business Intelligence tools to create an updatable and interactive excel spreadsheet for sourcing business leader.Web Portal Development: Created an interactive and responsive web portal with Ruby on Rails.Lean Insights: Gleaned valuable insights as demonstrated by my ability to utilize lean tools to recognize waste in the process after training for a summer with a Japanese Lean Sensei

Server Configuration: Set up a licensing server, enabling students to delve into Cobol.Tutoring Recognition: Elevated academic performance of remedial computer science students, receiving recognition for effective teaching strategies.