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Greater Seattle Area

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Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Worked independently and in small teams to Design, Develop, Test, and Debug custom Web Applications, Automations, and Mobile software• Designed the SQL relational databases used by these applications • Fully redesigned the room and meal billing system used by campus Housing & Dining department that automated and improved the reliability of what was historically an extremely manual and error prone processo Redesign included a ASP.NET MVC web application and several automated processes handling large bulk data jobso Utilized a custom SQL database, C#, Entity Framework, LINQ, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and overall Unit Tested to 80% coverage• Led the project to migrate in-house version control from subversion to GIT with TFS and utilized this new implementation to drive procedure and policy improvement concerning Application Lifecycle Managemento Focused on applying Agile Development Practices to processes within the department• Designed from end-to-end a new menu system used by the Dining Services department to display daily menus on digital signso Leveraged SharePoint 2013 lists to store the menu items for ease of access and utilized SharePoint 2013 REST API to retrieve the data for displayo Designed a Provider-Hosted SharePoint App to manage global sign configurationo Displayed the menu using an MVC web application• Guided the development group in exploring modern design patterns, testing, and framework technologies• Led the adoption of Entity Framework, LINQ, ASP.NET MVC, and Unit Testing by taking every opportunity available to learn new approaches to design and development and then sharing that learning with the team• Restructured legacy applications in order to improve the maintainability and flexibility of these existing apps and to incorporate modern design practices.• Explored several Proof of Concept apps on Win8/8.1/RT• Created Provider-Hosted apps to use as the main user interface for custom applications

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Designed and Created hardware and software server solutions to upgrade, refresh, and support the campus department operations including Active Directory, Hyper-V virtualization, SQL failover clustering, IIS Web Servers, and SharePoint 2013• Led the Systems Administration team in adopting new server hardware and software technology• Developed PowerShell applications to automate the support and monitoring of these systems

Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

• Teacher of English for Elementary and Middle school students and adult townsfolk• Translated government documents from English to Japanese and Japanese to English• Act as a diplomatic advisor for relations between the local Japanese government and other English speaking governments

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Redesigned the department Domain to be one of the first Windows 2003 domains on the campus network• Designed and managed Citrix, SQL, WWW, File services, tape backup, and many other services that provided the core network infrastructure for the Housing & Dining Services network