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Remote, Us

Building out the backend CI/CD infrastructure for the Sensor product.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Reduced local development setup time from 8 hours to 10 minutes by architecting a local developer environment built on Docker containers.- Eliminated wait period of hours/days for the manual checking of quality requirements before each deployment of 100s of services by building an extensible service to perform automatic checks.- Saved thousands of hours of engineers time writing and debugging automated tests through the creation of a Test Automation Framework that wrapped the Relativity API surface.- Improved communications between teams by crafting a new taxonomy adopted company-wide to unify language when talking about Unit, Integration, Functional, and other types of tests.- Drove the new testing strategy and standards for the company as the product shifted from an on-premise to a SaaS product to guide teams to shift their testing further left in the SDLC.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Fixed 50+ critical and high priority defects and worked directly with clients on a production support team that would diagnose software issues and deliver defect fixes.- Championed Regression Testing efforts for a collection of teams on the backend platform services.- Improved the developer inner-loop deploy step from 5+ minutes to 5+ seconds by enabling a new testing workflow that won the company-wide Hack-a-thon.- Mentored a couple of junior engineers and taught them automated testing best practices.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Lead a team that implemented a Service Bus library built on-top of Windows Service Bus and Azure Service Bus.- Lead the testing effort in the creation of a home grown RESTful service host framework.- Refactored legacy code to be more unit testable while improving unit test coverage.- Developed and tested public facing RESTful and WCF APIs.- Identified defects through Automated tests (Unit tests and Integration Tests using NUnit and Robot test frameworks).- Performed root cause analysis on defects and implemented fixes.- Translated fragile test cases to robust automated test suites.- Wrote a C# library to make API calls to be used in automated Robot test cases.- Introduced NUnit tests into the company's automated testing framework.

Decorah, Ia, Us

• Lead student athletes in daily training• Proivided meet oversight and direction to athletes• Adapted and refined athletes stroke technique• Actively recruited prospective student athletes to the program

Decorah, Ia, Us

Programmer• Designed and programmed software to boost fundraising results using Java• Interacted with top-level executives for the creation of a veteran commemorative kiosk, programmed using Django. Office Assistant• Interacted with top-level executives on a daily basis to prioritize tasks and responsibilities• Assisted in planning and execution of multiple fundraising events that earned over amillion dollars for certain funds• Utilized Adobe Creative Suite to design marketing and advertising materials• Led initiative to maximize efficiency and organization of filing processes