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Architecture and development of a cloud based system for improved Customer and Employee interactions.Stack: ASP.NET, C#, dotnet 6, Blazor WASM, grpc, Azure (App Services, CDN, B2C, Storage, Tables, Cosmos), html, css, javascript

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Led a team of developers 4-10 in the development of a new Biotech research device. o Interfaced with all stake holders to create requirements, documentation (technical and user), diagrams, flowcharts and videos.• Cut years off the necessary development time for software, hardware and scientists by finding ways to remove software development as an impediment to other work flows. o Hardware was waiting on development 1-2 weeks every time they needed to test new functionality. I designed a “Direct Commands” system that allowed them to pass their commands directly to the hardware, while still using the monitoring and logging from the rest of the system. This allowed them to do all their work without having to wait on developers. o Changed software workflow to catch design problems earlier and avoid rework.• Automated many parts of the software to increase experiment speeds, reduce complexity for scientists and engineers, and improve safety.• Created a hardware programming system (Classes, Objects, Variables (Class and Instance), Polymorphism, parallel operations, and breakpoints) to allow our scientists and engineers to quickly program all the hardware. o Taught scientists basic programming.• Reduced the costs of each system by: o Removing the need for 2 of 3 computers. o Reducing the file sizes for the experimental data down to < 1% of its’ previous size using various strategies for more efficient packing, and removing irrelevant data.• Designed a data driven experiment wizard, which allowed scientist to create new experiments without developer involvement.• Improved the data acquisition system to create more accurate data, then increasing its’ speed by ~7x, meeting the requirements for their next gen system.• Designed a learning algorithm that allowed us to get the experiment run-time estimations down to ~1 second per hour (way lower than the desired hour per day). This also allowed long term diagnostics by showing performance changes.

Salt Lake City Utah

Created a new version of their in-house Content Management System. The application was designed to use significantly less server resources and bandwidth than the previous system, while giving the clients a much more responsive and customizable interface. The server side uses C#/ASP.NET Web API and SQL. The client uses html5 and angularjs to enable a responsive client side experience. Some of the fun features I was able to add include:• User selectable themes that don’t require a page reload or loss of state.• Web API allowed me to send only the raw json data to clients, instead of sending all the html every time. I was able to get the average bandwidth per page down to less than 1% of the previous version. The bandwidth reduction also made the user experience on slower connections such as cell phones significantly faster.• Websockets allowed me to push real time data such as messages to the users as well as locking content for editing.• Html5 allowed me to use localstorage and indexedDB to store data on the client. By creating a modifications table for my data, I could avoid sending the client data they already had if the data on the server hadn’t changed yet.

Hill Afb, Utah

Developed new systems and maintained legacy systems, primarily using C, C++, C#, WPF, WCF, XML, SQL, html and JavaScript.Extensive testing, both manual for peer tests and implementation of unit tests.Created documentation and help files.Accomplishments• Completely redesigned our main product. Converted the application from legacy Winforms with a slow backend to a WPF/MVVM/WCF application. The new architecture allowed me to implement new features such as unit testing, network services and automation. My changes drastically improved the responsiveness, maintainability and the user experience of the application.• Modified one of our data collection utilities to implement parallel processing and better storage access methods. I was able to drop the average run time of 45 minutes down to 2.• Improved many tools by adding easy features such as modifiable defaults and preferences. These changes only saved the developers a minute or two with each run; however, in instances where we had to run the tool 30+ times in a row it probably saved us a few monitors.

Flagstaff Arizona

Accomplishments• Designed and demonstrated a building automation system. The system controls all the lights, projectors, screens and audio in a classroom by utilizing a low power embedded computer for signaling and a Windows based UI. The system was specially designed to be ADA compliant and I won the schools engineering competition for the 2nd year in a row.• Created a system to monitor solar and wind energy systems, generate statistics and send out alerts.• Created various utilities for accountants to manipulate and format data.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Translated end user’s workflow into network applications.• Worked primarily on desktop and 3-tier applications using .NET, SQL and WCF.• Trained users and IT staff.• Managed Windows and SQL servers for development, testing and deployment environments.Accomplishments• Helped design and implement a custom 3-tier system.• Designed a system to work around random network outages for long periods of time. One of our clients had an office in a remote location that would lose connectivity to the main servers. I created a system that allowed the clients to work together to sync their data when the network was down; then sync back to the main servers when they had a connection.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Developed Drone and Laser systems utilizing Labview, Java, C++ and basic.

Bse, Electrical Engineering: Computer Engineering Emphasis

Certification, Satellite, Wideband, Telemetry And Instrumentation

Satellite, wideband, telemetry and instrmention