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Sheridan, Wyoming, United States

Kirkland, Washington, United States

As the co-founder of the company, I was responsible for building fully customized applications for small businesses, as well as lead the development efforts for the company.• Work directly with local customers to provide full stack PHP applications tailored to their unique business needs.• Integrated with the Constant Contact API to allow email campaigns to be managed internally.• Created an article aggregator as a proof of concept - https://www.watechnews.com.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

At Lifted Trucks, I lead the building of the core application from the ground up where my main objective is to turn the business objectives into technical requirements. This includes the suite of APIs, backend application, and a new consumer facing website.• Successfully launched a new consumer facing website and backend application for a sister company. This launch resulted in financial savings for the company as well as a 35% increase in leads.• Migrated the legacy inventory… Show more At Lifted Trucks, I lead the building of the core application from the ground up where my main objective is to turn the business objectives into technical requirements. This includes the suite of APIs, backend application, and a new consumer facing website.• Successfully launched a new consumer facing website and backend application for a sister company. This launch resulted in financial savings for the company as well as a 35% increase in leads.• Migrated the legacy inventory management system into the new Laravel backend application.• Enabled sales staff to manage appointments by integrating with a third-party CRM.• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to deploy the application to Laravel Vapor on AWS. Show less

Puyallup, Washington, United States

As the Engineering Manager, I was tasked with leading the engineering team for one of the largest automotive dealerships in Washington state.• Applied Scrum and Kanban practices to the team with the intent of keeping the internal technical team lean.• Acted at the primary point of contact for the organization’s development needs.• Lead development efforts and maintenance needs throughout the organization’s technical stack.

Puyallup, Washington, United States

As a Full Stack Web Developer, I was tasked with implementing technical criteria into the organization’s cloud architecture, backend Laravel application, and consumer facing Nuxt.js (Vue) application. • Migrated the monolithic Laravel application into a full featured suite of APIs to enable communication between a new consumer facing application and mobile Ionic application. • Updated the internal organization’s legacy application to PHP 8.0 as well as integrated the Laravel and Vue… Show more As a Full Stack Web Developer, I was tasked with implementing technical criteria into the organization’s cloud architecture, backend Laravel application, and consumer facing Nuxt.js (Vue) application. • Migrated the monolithic Laravel application into a full featured suite of APIs to enable communication between a new consumer facing application and mobile Ionic application. • Updated the internal organization’s legacy application to PHP 8.0 as well as integrated the Laravel and Vue frameworks.• Launched a new consumer facing web application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk that enabled the dealership to distribute their inventory on a nationwide scale.• Migrated the organization’s backend application from a dedicated server to AWS to meet the demand of increased traffic and business needs.• Utilized Ionic to build and launch a new consumer facing mobile application.• Used serverless technologies to interact with AWS Lambda running on Java to replace an on-premises third-party classified tool.• Built a Google Chrome extension that enabled departments within the organization to keep track of third-party data as well as internal data points using the organization’s API.• Scaled the internal inventory management system which included the organization’s MySQL database, DynamoDB database, Redis cache cluster, and web servers. • Replaced a third-party image resizing solution with a tailored serverless application that resulted in both cost savings and speed improvements.• Integrated Elasticsearch with the backend application to allow for dynamic and geo specific searches of the organization’s inventory. Show less

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Review and opening up new escrow deals• Audit and process incoming addenda and invoices• Disbursement of funds on the day of closing and other tasks as needed• Detail oriented and fast paced job which gave me an understanding of the value of attention to detail while working with deadlines

Information Systems Associate In Applied Science, Software Development Track

Computer Security & Network Technician Associate Of Applied Science

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