Drew Williams Email & Phone Number

Brighton, MI, US

Grand Rapids, MI, US

• Collaborated with project managers to design and deploy a cloud-native media supply chain leveraging SDVI Rally and AWS. The initiative optimized video media storage and management procedures for the company’s upcoming.
• Conducted joint research, documentation, and preparatory work for novel Python-driven automation scripts within SDVI. These scripts facilitated tasks like recognizing video aspect ratios, closed captioning languages.
• Created Architectural Decision Records documenting all significant decisions to ensure transparency and provide guidance for subsequent collaboration.

• Assigned to spearhead the creation of a new site for the company's gift card purchase and balance checking site serving the USA and Canada.
• Entrusted to make development decisions with a 5-person team ensuring alignment with project managers, project owners, and UX design directives, as well as meeting all functional requirements.
• Utilized Redux for global state management and React Query for efficient data fetching and caching.
• Created Architectural Decision Records that documented all significant choices to ensure transparency and facilitate future development.

• Developed critical Statement of Work application utilizing React, Next.js, CSS Modules, Storybook, Material UI, and Ant Design, replacing error-prone manual processes for accessing and updating Nexient client data.
• Demonstrated the app's progress and functionality to Nexient's CDO at the end of each two-week sprint as well as to Nexient’s CEO intermittently throughout the development schedule.
• Onboarded new team members on the current state of the project and tools, best practices, and pair-programming.
• Used Jest to write and execute unit tests, ensuring that new features consistently achieved over 90% test coverage.

• Developed a workforce management application that allows employees to view their time cards, review work schedules, submit time-off requests, and swap hours. The application is currently available for employee use in.
• Utilized SASS for creating modular styles, Jest for unit testing, and Apollo client for fetching/managing data from a Go Back-End using GraphQL.

• Performed SEO related improvements for six retail brand websites including updating meta-tags and robots.txt files. Facilitating higher click-through rates and more ecient web crawling and updating company brand logos.
• Replaced Oracle’s Endeca HTML-based API with Bloomreach’s JSON based API, leading to an increased developer velocity.

• Implemented features using Spring including Spring Beans, annotations, inversion of control, dependency injection, module layers using MVC patterns. Utilized RESTful practices, including making endpoint requests.
• Utilized Java library Lombok to reduce boilerplate code by generating getters and setters.
• Implemented Liquibase to manage and apply database schema changes eciently and Jackson to handle JSONdata serialization within the Nexient employee portal’s nightly job, ensuring seamless integration and.
• Migrated reports and tests to new modules to keep code organized and more manageable.

• Regularly maintained and updated computer systems, including operating systems and software applications.
• Diagnosed and repaired hardware and software issues.
• Regularly updated and patched software to address security vulnerabilities.
• Educated cafe staff and customers on best practices for online security.
• Provided technical support to customers who encountered connectivity or software-related issues.
• Trained cafe staff to handle basic technical support inquiries.

• Lead recording engineer with the following responsibilities:
• Spearheaded the technical setup to ensure optimal sound quality for recording sessions.
• Leveraged my abilities in Pro Tools to track and mix artists.
• Collaborated closely with artists to understand their artistic vision, providing guidance and direction to achieve their desired sound.
• Employed advanced knowledge of audio equipment and software to troubleshoot and optimize studio resources for seamless recording experiences.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Minor, Electronic Media And Film Studies

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Science, Programming In Java

Certificate, Sound Engineer