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Loveland, CO, US

Loveland, CO

Creating / Testing / Updating software applications for internal business use to add value and lower maintenance costs.

Loveland, Colorado

• Created testing protocols for all stages of product life cycle from NPI to Release using tools such as: AMT, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, GIT, TestComplete, TestRail.
• Helped with development on products to facilitate schedule integrity using C++, C#, NodeJS, BASH.
• Created backend tools for assisting in integration between server-side and client-side release processes using.NET.
• Created processes to assist with the development of Linux and Windows based applications.
• Lead teams to gather necessary data for requirement gathering and creation.

Cheyenne, Wyoming Area

• Created a software development department for ANB bank’s IT subsidiary for backend, client and web-based applications.
• Mentored developers when building projects using C#.NET, VB, Bootstrap, ReactJS and RESTful API’s.
• Handled personnel, budgets and project schedules as well as organizing the introduction of Agile methodology along with tracking velocity and burndown.
• Ensured that my team generated complete designs as well as followed best coding practices and meet all regulatory requirements.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Develop code that tests the hardware and software of all HP computer products across the full-stack (UI, Middleware, Backend).
• Developed many automation tools for internal use to help increase productivity and quality using C, C++, C#.net, Java, VB, Python, Perl, Soap, Restful, JSON, etc.
• Created test cases/plans/protocols using various tools including QC, AMT, TFS, etc.
• Created policies across HP to help increase quality while reducing costs.
• Lead the worldwide integration testing with 13 direct reports.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Created more than fifty test system applications as well as LabView drivers for various pieces of equipment used to test the shipping products.
• Ensured full quality of each product shipped while simultaneously increasing production throughput.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Wrote or updated modules to the VIC software while leading the design of the VXI Configurator application. Resolved issues and designed from scratch many hardware scripts for operating customer test systems.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Designed and built test scripts and database applications for testing and storing information about hardware being designed. In some cases, this information would need to be available for use in other plants around the globe.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering

B.S., Computer Science

Awarded The Lady Ida Lovelace Award for Excellence in Computer Science