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Redmond, Washington, Us

Implemented and designed a service to allow customers to execute curated privileged commands that would normally require an engineer to manage, saving engineers approximately 30 hours a week of valuable engineering time. Collaborated to design a system leveraging REST APIs, ServiceBus for message processing, and microservices. Led the API effort of the project from ideation to general availability.Collaborated with multiple teams and organizations to write and test Powershell Cmdlets for customers to use, allowing them to perform actions that previously required engineer intervention.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and implemented a billing microservice for Azure VMware Solution’s using Go, interfacing with REST APIs, Azure Storage Tables, and data from multiple teams. Additionally worked on the containerization of a service allowing customers to purchase and track nodes in bulk.Using F# and integrating with Azure Storage, designed and created telemetry that would allow proactive mitigation of suspected issues, as well as reactive auto-mitigation based on developed patterns. Worked across teams to convert high level asks into specific data and created monitors based on that data.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Developer supporting manufacturing systems for Altria LLC responsible for designing, building, and implementing technology solutions that ease the manufacturing process. Developed in the full stack with Visual Studio and XCode using C#, Swift, and SQL. Responsible for driving process simplification by proposing new ideas and methods and seeing them through to production. Gathered requirements for and developed an iOS application and a corresponding SQL database that transitioned from a paper process to a mobile solution. This allowed for enhanced analytics and reduced user errors. Additionally, it saved employees approximately 100 hours a week.Developed a POC using machine learning and computer vision in Azure to eliminate the practice of requiring manual user confirmation of products, saving employees about 4 hours of work a week.Worked to access data from various sources, including PLC's and various different external softwares, in order to compile them together to create a data analytics dashboard for unit leaders to be able to monitor throughput.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Using the ASP.NET MVC framework, I developed an addition to an Altria Website based on a customer request for additional back-end information and an updated UI. Developed the full stack leveraging SQL, C#, JS, HTML, and CSS. Gathered business requirements, developed the code, and oversaw user acceptance testing to move the feature to production.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Helped design, debug, and implement web-based health interventions for participants in various clinical studies. Use photoshop to modify images for use in the interventions. Model databases using mySQL to hold participant data.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Commission-based marketing/sales in Virginia Beach. Communicate with tourists and guests and demonstrate the value of the hotels in order to convince them to take a timeshare tour. Achieved weekly quotas of families signed up for the tour. Grossed the company over 250,000 in sales in a three month span and consistently produced in the top 10 of the department.

Help coordinate and run the study. Extract and input data, interview participants, preprocess data, and perform level one analysis on data. Became IRB certified for research with human participants. Used MatLab and PHP to analyze data sets.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science And Cognitive Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Tourism