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Kansas City, MO, US

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

- Decreased the load time of an internal dashboard by 99.4% (29.8s to 173ms)- Facilitated discussion on integration test flakiness that led to a prioritization of service upgrades.- Created a new, asynchronous UX pattern that integrated customer feedback on legibility.- Founding member of the Best Practices Working Group.- Led a department discussion on.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

- Added nearly 200 RSpec tests to application repo.- Refactored admin controller, removing several expensive queries and decreased time until initial page render.- Converted complex Active Record query into query object with full specs.- Reformatted CSV report that pulled in Clever and ClassLink logs from Redis database.- Discovered root cause of.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

- Reduced serializer runtime by 11.33% through eliminating the decryption of attributes.- Defined data model architecture that minimized new table creation and facilitated easy scaling.- Top-to-bottom rewrite of existing enterprise Rails app for corporate event ticket management.- Implemented deep record duplication without a gem.- Authored API tests that.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

- Onboarded and trained new Internal Technical Support Engineer.- Coded Rake task with rollback that updated over 3200 records.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

- Added RSpec tests that identified a previously unknown security hole.- Coordinated with other engineers to diagnose and fix a production-breaking bug in 49 minutes.- Wrote detailed documentation on the company's app that has been rolled into employee onboarding.

Burbank, CA

- Oversaw a team of developers across two continents tasked with maintaining 35+ client sites.- Improved client site uptime to over 99% by routing traffic through proxy servers.- Implemented version control on all client WordPress themes.

Los Angeles, CA

- Reimagined the company website by coding a custom WordPress theme that featured a rotating slideshow, social media widget, and a category-based blog.- Saved the company over $800 annually in service fees by converting shared server to a cloud-based solution.

Programmed WordPress sites for clients including The Gillespie Law Firm, Swan Legal Search, Yvonne's Gluten-Free Goodies, and The Woman Formerly Known as Beautiful

Glendale, CA

- Designed the 2008 summer and winter X-Games Environmentality sites.- Optimized the department's website infrastructure on the Company's proprietary content management system.

Engineering Immersion

- Learned industry best practices and practical software development standards with a focus on HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Acting