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Omaha, Ne, Us

Bristol, Gb

Clive, Iowa, Us

Lincoln, Ne, Us

• Designed, implemented, and maintained event-driven architectures and event sourced applications. Provided observability, replayability, auditability, and enabled parallelism of the data aggregation and transformation pipelines before listings (items) are launched onto marketplaces.• Developed internal and external facing APIs, clients, and libraries. Protocols included SOAP, REST/HTTP, gRPC/HTTP2, and GraphQL.• Migrated and refactored legacy systems incrementally. Mimicking behavior while adopting into new infrastructure. Regression testing, feature flags, data migrations, and output comparison ensuring completeness.• Helped establish best practices of event-driven architecture, event sourcing, vertical workflows, fault tolerance, and idempotency across multiple teams. Taught and implemented practical DDD principles where complexity needed maintainability.• Researched, documented, and communicated the functional needs of marketplaces and the technical constraints of their APIs, as well as internal (organizational) APIs and libraries.• Technologies used but not limited to: C#, VB, .NET Core, .NET Core, Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Marten, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Octopus Deploy, Javascript, jQuery, React, Moq, FakeItEasy, GraphQL, GRPC, REST, Swagger, SOAP

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Full stack software engineer providing solutions for clients• Technologies used but not limited to: Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, Amazon Aurora, Elasticsearch, Maven, Gradle, Hibernate, JDBC, JUnit, Spock, JavaScript, React, Redux, Jest, jQuery, JSP, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap

Omaha, Ne, Us

• Assisted with redevelopment of the central portal for Data Management & Governance• Developed full stack web applications that lowered workload of DBAs, developers, and business partners• Wrote shell scripts that automated regular tasks and performed health checks• Discover trends and generate reports for server and user license usage• Server and database inventory managementTechnologies used: Java (8+), Spring (Core, Boot, MVC, Data), JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS, Angular 2, relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server), Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Linux, Perl, Bash

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

• Provided one-on-one peer tutoring and assisted in group review sessions. Courses included: • Introduction to CS I: Java language and basic programming concepts• Introduction to CS II: object oriented programming, basic data structures, intro to algorithms• Discrete Mathematics: set theory, sequences, number theory, induction and recursion• Introduction to C Programming: understanding lower-level concepts like memory management• Data Structures: analyzing and implementing data structures and algorithms• Graded assignments for Introduction to CS II and C Programming• Computer Science Principles: using MIT's AppInventor to create Android mobile apps• Introduction to Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Perl

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Part time job while transitioning to university from my full-time career and community college.

Livonia, Mi, Us

• Lead projects to enhance the customer service experience and streamline procedures• Administrator of service recovery workflow, following up customers directly and working with compliance specialists• Produced reports for department performance and gap analysis with quality assurance and service recovery data• Generated universal life and annuity illustrations, projecting in-force and potential scenario performance (variable products)• Health and life insurance licenses covering 38 states to promote, cross-sell, and up-sell products• Escalation point and liaison for customer service department• Provided individual and group training opportunities, striving for compliance with customer satisfaction

Boons & Conditions was the premiere online show for competitive structured player vs player tournament play in ArenaNet's massively multiple online game (MMO), "Guild Wars 2". An online game that has sold over three million copies since its launch in 2012.• Managed an online team of volunteers assigned with creating original written and video content.• Wrote, hosted, and produced 60 - 120 minute audio podcasts and live streamed shows. Audiences peaked at 300 live viewers.• Organized rotating set of guests, ensuring a unique experience for the viewer each episode. Guests were found by monitoring the growing high-end competitive Player Vs Player (PVP) scene. Identified personalities to ensure a diverse yet synergistic cast.• Developed relationship with ArenaNet for contests and scheduled content releases.

• Developed websites ranging from local businesses to online gaming fansites.• Set up and provided updates to content management systems and social networking tools such as vBulletin, WordPress, Laravel, Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms.• Technologies used: HTML, PHP, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management