David Ward Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Downers Grove, Il, Us

• Leading full‑stack development of the customer‑facing website portal for a user base exceeding 20,000• Implementing SSO authentication, integrating the main website with Canvas and Pearson platforms• Developing features for core business operations, focusing on access key redemption and management tools• Demonstrating strong problem‑solving skills by efficiently resolving 1‑5 daily support tickets, ensuring optimal user experience• Technical skills: C#, .NET, React, Typescript, Automated Testing, Mocking, Postman, CI/CD, Azure, CosmoDB

Northridge, Ca, Us

Industry mentor to sophomore and junior CSUN computer science students. Spend about 5 hours a month giving advice on how to prepare for the software industry between 2 mentees.Funding from Secure for Student Success (SFS^2)

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Automated repetitive administrative tasks, saving around 2‑3 hours per day across multiple teams through modifying email/MS Teams groups• Rewrote a critical legacy database cleanup console app using CQRS and CLEAN, enabling unit testing and eliminating deep‑rooted bugs• Automated archival of expired deals, outdated email groups/MS Teams, and employee offboarding with email notifications and JAMS jobs• Improved maintainability and enabled unit testing by refactoring heavily used, chained CQRS handlers into services• Introduced automated functional testing via Postman to department, increasing number of tests run 15 fold within QA budget for common workflows, expediting bug identification and resolution for inconsistent errors in MS Graph API‑driven communication management app

• Solely responsible for contributing to a monolithic social media app, collaborating directly with CEO and CTO• Enabled rapid startup launch by independently resolving 27 bugs and implementing feature updates across the entire web app• Ensured zero bugs in production by writing an exhaustive 66 unit tests and 131 integration tests in the automated test suite, with 100% branch coverage• Accelerated development time by resolving deep test suite bug affecting 4‑6% tests due to data generation library sample size constraints

• Built open‑source structural bioinformatics tool compiling protein data from multiple sources, enabling novel analysis• Developed user interface in Angular and RESTful API backend in C# with Entity Framework ORM, including type checking• Implemented frontend features: $HTTP service calls, two‑way data binding, *ngFor/*ngIf/*ngTemplate, custom components• MVC architecture uses separation of concerns for scalable development with frontend hosted on Apache server and backend/database on Azure

Northridge, Ca, Us

• Conducted literature review and ran experiments related to energy consumption of different workload balancing algorithms on varied data center architecture using virtual machines, simulation software, and automated experiments via Python scripting. • Visualized complex trace file data with 3D figures for CSU-LSAMP 10 minute symposium presentation.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Tutor responsible for 11 undergraduate computer science, chemistry, and math courses.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Analyzed medical instrument image data using MATLAB and presented in a poster session as well as a symposium of ∼300

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Lower Division Coursework, Chemistry / Computer Science