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Eagle River, Wi, Us

Eagle River, Wisconsin, United States

I provide my clients with a SaaS environment and provide web portals using PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Docker, Static Analysis, Psalm, PHPStan, Refactoring, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Docker, and reverse engi-neering. As more of my clients turn to software as a service, I have increased efficiency and lower costs in a paradigm shift impacting everything from software delivery and resources to governance and roles. Highlights:• Developed a Medical Imaging Appointment Booking… Show more I provide my clients with a SaaS environment and provide web portals using PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Docker, Static Analysis, Psalm, PHPStan, Refactoring, Spring Boot, Tomcat, Docker, and reverse engi-neering. As more of my clients turn to software as a service, I have increased efficiency and lower costs in a paradigm shift impacting everything from software delivery and resources to governance and roles. Highlights:• Developed a Medical Imaging Appointment Booking Web App, refactoring and updating it into a via-ble SaaS product.• Expanded user roles and access controls and improved appointment request process for benefits recip-ients, appointment negotiation, and approval processes for medical providers.• Expanded user roles and access controls, improved appointment, negotiation, and approval processes for medical profiders in a Thrid-Party Benefits Administration management app. • Increased customer satisfaction and retention by delivering an expanded and mobile-first design for the benefits web portal and providing a more efficient appointment booking overflow for benefit re-cipients and medical office staff. • Significantly reduced refunds and chargebacks through usability and error-handling improvements.• Improved time-to-market by devising a modular approach for multiple payment gateway APIs. Show less

Cottage Grove, Minnesota, United States

Helped to position and cement the status of TravelNet as a leading provider of integrated software and solu-tions for thousands of hotels, resorts, lodges, inns, B&Bs, and vacation rental companies by developing and maintaining flagship property management SaaS applications.Highlights:• Improved code quality, enabling enhanced code-base safety, security, and reliability.• Maintained and improved certain legacy features in Angular.js and Zend MVC, and delivered new features with… Show more Helped to position and cement the status of TravelNet as a leading provider of integrated software and solu-tions for thousands of hotels, resorts, lodges, inns, B&Bs, and vacation rental companies by developing and maintaining flagship property management SaaS applications.Highlights:• Improved code quality, enabling enhanced code-base safety, security, and reliability.• Maintained and improved certain legacy features in Angular.js and Zend MVC, and delivered new features with Angular and REST APIs, with Apigility and Doctrine ORM. Show less

Three Lakes, Wisconsin, United States

Cole Publishing creates nine highly focused trade publications for the liquid waste and environmental wastewater industries. I played a key role in enhancing revenue generation and increasing transparency across organizational silos.Highlights: - • Built predictable revenue and increased customer retention by developing a subscription management system to manage business subscribers, producing a CRM for 1.2M subscriptions across 20 publications.• Increased transparency across… Show more Cole Publishing creates nine highly focused trade publications for the liquid waste and environmental wastewater industries. I played a key role in enhancing revenue generation and increasing transparency across organizational silos.Highlights: - • Built predictable revenue and increased customer retention by developing a subscription management system to manage business subscribers, producing a CRM for 1.2M subscriptions across 20 publications.• Increased transparency across business units by standardizing data models in MySQL and reduced re-porting and analysis costs with user-friendly and responsive web UIs.• Generated $100K in additional revenue for inventors, developed a lead retrieval app for trade shows, and refactored it to the SaaS app.• Achieved significant cost and labor savings by automating address corrections and attaining fewer missed deliveries.• Facilitated the creation of new digital ad types and packages, launching a culture shift on how to approach digital ad sales, providing database-backed ad performance tracking, and removing bot traffic.• Improved tracking of year–to–year trends by consolidating data for the largest trade show in the wastewater industry.• Improved speed in on-boarding new team members.• Increased parity of development and production environments using Docker, Docker-Compose, nginx, DnsMasq, Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Docker. Show less

Gallatin, Tennessee

Developed comprehensive documentation that established the long-term foundation for the College’s web presence. Improved intra-department and external communication via emerging technologies. Elevated service levels to better support students, faculty, and staff.Highlights:• Improved usability, accessibility, and futureproofing with web standards by redesigning the website.• Led integration of new online resources to support student success, safety, and communications… Show more Developed comprehensive documentation that established the long-term foundation for the College’s web presence. Improved intra-department and external communication via emerging technologies. Elevated service levels to better support students, faculty, and staff.Highlights:• Improved usability, accessibility, and futureproofing with web standards by redesigning the website.• Led integration of new online resources to support student success, safety, and communications, provided a campus alert system and online catalog and developed third-party resources. • Supported new initiatives, developing microsites and increasing staff and faculty engagement. Show less

Cookeville, Tennessee

Lead project manager for a Higher Ed Institute that was able to go from a cost center into a revenue center in 3 months. Supported major project deployments including an in-house portfolio tool, a state-wide college credit transfer web app, and a graduate survey tool.Highlights:• Worked with faculty to transition a traditional campus online, resulting in an increase in enrollment by 10%.• Elevated service levels to support internal customers and provided new routines and… Show more Lead project manager for a Higher Ed Institute that was able to go from a cost center into a revenue center in 3 months. Supported major project deployments including an in-house portfolio tool, a state-wide college credit transfer web app, and a graduate survey tool.Highlights:• Worked with faculty to transition a traditional campus online, resulting in an increase in enrollment by 10%.• Elevated service levels to support internal customers and provided new routines and standards for faculty support.• Participated in development of grant application to experiment with 3D printing for rapid prototyping. Show less

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Communication & Technology

Activities and Societies: • McLuhan Graduate Student Award (2010) • Humanities Computing Colloquium Lecturer My research focused.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Web Design

Activities and Societies: Computer Science Research Award Dean's List My time at TTU was great. As a non-traditional student, already.

Associate Of Applied Science, Web Technology

Activities and Societies: Honors Graduate in Web Design Dean's List