Christopher Reed Email & Phone Number

Youngstown, Ohio Area

Worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on an Internet of Things (IoT) website project--------Assumed responsibility of managing an already existing LAMP server that displayed data for IoT devicesMigrated the in house LAMP server to AWS to better utilize the advantages of cloud computingImproved both the front and back end of the website as well as added new featuresWorked on both the website as well as the firmware on the IoT devicesConfigured the firmware to be able to send messages through the MQTT protocol with JSON messagesImplemented security on the IoT devices through asymmetric public-key cryptography. This involved actively dealing with the creation and management of public and private keys and the root and intermediate certificates.Migrated one table from the relational database system to Amazon’s Dynamo non-relational database.Configured and managed the AWS solution – including the creation of Lambda functions, an EC2 server, an RDS server, security policies, Dynamo database, an IoT Broker, etc.Additional projects included:Designed and implemented a testing program written in C# to be used to test Electronic Inclination Sensors. The program automatically calibrated and tested the sensors and recorded the testing data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. It also implemented a search functionality to retrieve all testing results. Additionally the program used threading to be able to asynchronously communicate with the sensors.Worked on adding additional functionality to a VB.NET content management program that I had created previously at the company. The program stores company, contact, and project data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. It allows the creation and retrieval of companies, contacts, projects, etc.

Wrote scripts and applications in C# that interfaced with a database retrieval program called OnBase--------Designed and created an insurance claim web application written in ASP.NET (in Microsoft Visual Studio using Web Forms). The application used C# as the back-end language and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the front-end languages using Foundation as the front-end framework. It performed database calls written in SQL and sent them to a Microsoft SQL Server database (through SQLConnection and SQLCommand objects) which allowed the user to create new claims, edit old ones, or delete claims. Finally, the application interfaced with the OnBase program through an API to create documents related to the insurance claim and move them through a workflow lifecycle. Project length was 3-4 months.Built a Lockbox Processor which programmatically called a zip program (7zip) to zip up files and directories through the Command Prompt and send them over a network through an SSH client (using PuTTY and WinSCP)Wrote a program to create a watermark of page numbers and imprint them on customer documents through Visual Studio image and graphics libraries. Also wrote a program to imprint a watermark of a County seal.Worked in a group project that handled custom data entry logic rules through JSON and HTML electronic formsUsed an API to interface custom scripts with the OnBase database programUpdate and converted scripts written by older clients from VBScript to C#Created scripts that updated search keywords on customer documents as well as sorting algorithms to sort documents and search keywordsBuilt scripts that merged documents (like PDFs) togetherCreated scripts that read (and wrote to) CSV files to enter data into the OnBase database as well as to send data to additional programs and processes (through FTP)

Used Microsoft Visual Studio to create Windows desktop applications written in VB.NET--------Created a desktop application in VB.NET that performed database retrievals from Microsoft SQL Server using SQL. The SQL code performed various actions such as “Select”, “Insert”, and “Delete”. The application allowed the user to view company records as well as create new records and edit/delete old ones.Built a desktop application in VB.NET that handled quality assurance data which additionally implemented safeguards against incorrect data entry

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Physics, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery, Emerging Leader Program, Society of Physics Students, Toastmasters.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Physics, 3.857

Activities and Societies: Physics Graduate Student Association