* Summer 2016: COMPSCI 141 - Concepts in Programming Languages I* Fall 2016: I&C SCI 31 - Introduction to Programming

I took time off before starting my masters degree to focus on professional development. I studied the following.* Test Driven Development - My influences include Bob Martin, Kent Beck, and Ron Jeffries* Object Oriented Design Principles - I learned about the SOLID principles, the Law of Demeter, and Clean Architecture* Software Craftsmanship - My influences include Bob Martin, Pete McBreen, and Dave Hoover* Functional Programming - I took online classes on functional programming in Scala and in Haskell.

* I was hired to assist and guide junior developers in building a web application using AngularJS and Laravel* I helped established a SDLC for the project including getting them setup with an organization on Github and setting up deployment to AWS ElasticBeanstalk.

* I was the lead developer for a CMS system that hosts thousands of online stores.* Introduced the company to automated deployment and wrote the first deploy scripts.* Lead the company in implementing Scrum practices including standup meetings (scrums), time-boxed iterations (sprints), planning poker, and retrospectives.* Lead migration from SVN to Git and introduced gitflow.* My team was always the first to adopt new practices and set an example for the other teams. These included scrum practices, Git, Gitflow, unit testing, and code reviews.* Lead adoption of Amazon Web Services starting with DynamoDB* Lead developer of a Hypermedia APIs for shopping carts, products, and order management* Served as mentor and teacher to the members of my team* Worked with the Engineering Manager, other Technical Leads, the QA department, and the Product department to ensure quality and timely releases.

In the year long Software Engineering Capstone course, we created a web application for Intuit using Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven, etc.