Devon Dixon Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed by York Solutions, Barriers to Entry is a comprehensive, intense program created to prepare people with the skills to move into entry level software development roles. This interactive training covers Java, Full Stack, soft skills, methodologies, concepts, principles, & practices.

Software engineer with a focus in Spring Boot and back-end Java applications. • Involved in development and implementation of automated RX verification process which improved the available RX load by 5x saving the company 2 million dollars annually• Worked on development of backlog application that previously was apart of a main application. Solved the issue of memory constraints and performance by splitting the two and forming its own microservice to reduce load times.• Greatly increased code coverage + sonar coverage from across 3 main projects from an average of 40-45% to 80-90%• Worked with colleagues in delivering high quality updates on a sprint-to-sprint basis with weekly releases to production.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

The Software guild is an intensive, fast-paced apprenticeship program that produces full-stack software developers. Worked on projects at an extremely intense pace where success could only be obtained by exercising adequate time management skills and demonstrating feats of mastery throughout the material.PROJECTS:DVD Library ApplicationBuilt an application that creates, reads, updates, and deletes from a catalog of DVD objects. The software is configured to store data in a text file system and follows the MVC pattern.Vending Machine ApplicationDeveloped Vending Machine software that tracks inventory, vended item’s when prompted to, and processed purchases. The software is configured to store data in a text file system or in a database.Hotel Reservation DatabaseSupplied with a heap consisting of hotel reservation data and incorporated relational design as well as normalization process when converting the data into an SQL database. Through the process 3 separate SQL scripts were created that showcased the creation and deletion of the database, management of data provided to populate the database, and the creation of SQL queries that retrieved data.Order Tracking ApplicationUsed Java, NetBeans and MVC design pattern to architect Order Tracking software for the home improvement industry that takes product type(materials), area(size), and city and state from a user and calculates the total purchase price based on the state’s sales tax, labor cost per square foot, andmaterial cost per square foot.Guessing Game ApplicationProgrammed a RESTful application using Spring boot. This application produced a game that randomly generated a number that stored results using JDBC template to access a similarly created SQL database while using HTTP & URL endpoints to verify results using postman.