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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

As a Software Engineer on the Product Discovery Squad, I am responsible for working with business leaders to create, prioritize, and execute new strategic initiatives. I regularly meet with product and engineering leadership to understand what problems the organization is facing, then collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to determine the best strategy to solve these problems. This role requires me to understand every facet of each initiative including technical requirements, revenue projections, analytics, and impacts to other departments. This is a deeply collaborative role, and I regularly negotiate and advocate for my team's work to ensure that each stakeholder across product, engineering, and management is willing to support the plan. I have found this role very rewarding, as it allows me to work across disciplines to build coalitions that work together to solve large business problems and smaller departmental issues.In addition to these duties, I continue to develop and deploy code as needed. If I am not writing the code myself for a new project, I am working closely with an engineering team to ensure the projects meet all technical requirements. This allows me to mentor and guide junior engineers so that work is completed efficiently and effectively. I also regularly monitor our applications to ensure our deployment pipeline is functioning and our servers are healthy.

Greater Atlanta Area

As a Software Engineer, it is my responsibility to work with a team of developers to create new features and experiences for the Autotrader.com website. This has given me a great deal of experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as experience with development teams in the corporate environment. During this time, I have not only developed skills relating to managing a large code base, but have learned much about managing people. I have had the opportunity to work with other development teams on various projects, even leading meetings on new initiatives and processes.In this new role I have been given additional technical responsibilities. These include running site performance tests with Google Page Speed Insights and Apache Jmeter. I also participate in interviews for new employees and provide more technical leadership in everyday situations.Technologies I use:-Java for backend code-React for frontend code-AWS for monitoring and maintaining our cloud platform-Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics for monitoring customer engagement-Jenkins for CI/CD deployment of our code-Cypress and Jest for testing-NewRelic for application monitoring and alerting-Optimizely for feature testing, analytics, and decision making-Splunk for analysis and performance dashboards for our stakeholders-Github for our code repository and branch management-Apache SOLR for accessing our data sources-Rally for managing sprint commitments

Greater Atlanta Area

As an Associate Software Engineer, it is my responsibility to work with a team of developers to create new features and aspects of the Autotrader website. This has given me a great deal of experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies, as well as experience with development teams in the corporate environment. During this time, I have not only developed skills relating to managing a large code base, but have learned much about managing people. I have had the opportunity to work with other development teams on various projects, even leading meetings on new initiatives and processes.

Greater Atlanta Area

In this position, it is my duty to collaborate with a team of developers to make sure that the Autotrader website is maintained properly. I am responsible for repairing inoperable or error-prone areas of the website. I frequently work with other developers in an effort to tackle problems as a team. This position requires a great deal of teamwork and critical thinking skills to complete the tasks successfully. I am also responsible for working with a team that is responsible for finding and implementing a bug-tracking system. I am also responsible for gleaning important metrics from these defects to make the organization more efficient. After the team decides on a product, I am partly responsible for moving data from our existing system to the new system. This will be a large undertaking, as a database of 85,000+ bugs must be transferred over with all data still intact.

Greater Atlanta Area

As the youth ministry intern, my duties included managing volunteers, organizing the week-to-week activities, maintaining and operating some audio/visual and technical equipment, and mentoring students in the ministry.I frequently worked with the youth ministry team to plan special events and retreats, and was often in charge of the technical equipment throughout these events. I was involved in creating and promoting the events of the church, using such tools as Adobe Photoshop, social media, and BrightCMS. This role required a diverse set of skills, as well as the ability to quickly switch between tasks and think on one's feet. Strong interpersonal skills were also very important, as one frequently had to work with other employees or volunteers to accomplish tasks.

Kennesaw, Georgia

In this position, it was my duty to help develop applications both for the University, as well as outside businesses. I met with our clients to determine their needs and what our solution would be, and would then work with the development team to see the project to fruition. I was also responsible for testing the applications we developed, to ensure that they would meet the needs of the customer. I worked on both computer and mobile applications, with products ranging from applications to find a study partner to databases that would manage inventory for a medical supply company.

Albany, Georgia

As the youth ministry intern, my duties included managing volunteers, organizing the week-to-week activities, maintaining and operating all audio/visual and technical equipment, and mentoring students in the ministry.I frequently worked with the youth ministry team to plan special events and retreats, and was often in charge of the technical equipment throughout these events. This role required a diverse set of skills, as well as the ability to quickly switch between tasks and think on one's feet. Strong interpersonal skills were also very important, as one frequently had to work with other employees or volunteers to accomplish tasks.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Human Resource Management/Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Wesley Foundation

Associate Of Science (As), Sociology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Darton State College Honors Program, Sigma Delta Mu, Darton Ambassadors, Servant Leadership.