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EdTech Startup- Trained LLM model- Provided guidance on technology strategy, security, and compliance considerations for v1 of product- Provided strategy for where to use off the shelf software to increase speed to marketFinTech Startup- Created roadmap for the transition of a low-code back-end to a custom software back-end- Estimated timeline and cost for development of the custom software- Vetted proposals from development firms to do the work- Identified bugs in the user-onboarding journey and worked with CEO to resolveConsulting Startup- Create roadmap for transition from customer's old conflict-checking and time-tracking software to anew, custom tool- Provided architectural strategy and data modeling

Chicago, Il, Us

- Teach graduate level Object Oriented Software Development (SE 450)- Plan, organize, and deliver 3-hour lecture every week- Provide design guidance to students to help them further understand concepts covered in class and to help them complete their quarter-long projects- Create and grade homework, exams, and projects

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Reorganized development team to cross-functional, business-aligned teams to improve autonomy, ownership, prioritization, and decision-making- Identified and managed technical, people, process, and governance risks- Implemented and transitioned team development methodology from Lean to Disciplined Agile- Architected, led technical design, and analyzed business cases for development projects to ensure projects efficiently and effectively solve business needs- Managed policy and process changes for development, QA, and DevOps teams- Continuously evaluated efficiency and effectiveness of the team, and made improvements using a kaizen mindset- Resolved conflicts in the team and improved inter- and intra-team communication and collaboration- Grew a team of 4 software engineers to a team of 22 engineers across multiple disciplines- Managed the Development, QA, and DevOps team leads- Maintained engineering career tracks and developed career progression plans for team members- Defined interview process for the engineering team and evaluated candidates

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Malvern, Pa, Us

- Maintain and add features to large, legacy .NET applicant tracking system- Migrated legacy application to service-oriented WebAPI .NET Core 2.0 project • Led project identifying and fixing various security attack vectors • Taught team how to identify and fix vulnerabilities and organized plan for fixing vulnerabilities throughout the application- Maintain and add features to Microservices/public APIs for an employee management system- Used both Kanban and Scrum- Evangelize Unit Testing and good software design • Increased Unit Testing percentage on projects from 3% to 20%- Refactored code to reduce tech debt- Advised developers on solution design, including what design patterns could be used and pointing out potential performance issues- Improved performance of web services • Replaced call that took 55+ seconds with one that took under 8 seconds.- Took on Project Manager role on failing project to bring it to completion- Plan and organize backlog using JIRA with stakeholders- Document library usage and processes for setting up new projects for other developers to follow

Chicago, Il, Us

Maintained and developed new features for Software as a Service platform- Technologies Used: C#, .NET 4.5.2, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server, Backbone, MVC 5, Web API- Worked with Azure Blob Storage, Azure Container Storage, and Azure Cloud Services- Worked on team with two other developersHelped implement Scrum for the company’s software development processMentored the more junior developer on the team- Helped with refactoring and implementation questionsHelped gather requirementsSet up JIRA workflows, permissions, etc. for use with company’s new development processWorked on integrations with external APIs, such as ZenDesk, AdWords, and Bing AdsCreated server builds to ensure 100% of unit tests are passing, code coverage is analyzed, and working builds are automatically deployed to a staging site when code is checked in for all solutionsEncouraged company to use SonarQube to help with measuring metrics of code qualityLed/co-led lunch and learns on Entity Framework and unit testing with Microsoft FakesEncouraged increased unit testing coverage – went from 20% to 42% coverage (increasing every sprint) to dateStarted Code Review process with the two other developers

Chicago, Il, Us

DragonSpears spun off from Adage Technologies in July 2015. See Adage Technologies for description of projects, accomplishments, and responsibilities.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Maintained large legacy Line of Business application (Project Lead)- Technologies Used: C#.NET 3.5, CSLA, SQL Server, Backbone, jQuery- Led team of 3-4 developers- In charge of delegating tasks and keeping track of statuses of tasks.- Worked in database with 300+ tables, 100+ Views, and 100+ Stored Procedures- Updated Build to use Continuous Integration and provide code coverage reports- Wrote and maintained unit tests and ensured they were always passing- Fixed bugs, worked one-on-one with client to add in functionality- Refactored areas of code to improve maintainability- Improved performance of application in one trouble spot- - Page load went from 30+ seconds to less than 10 seconds. - - Paging, sorting, and filtering went from 15-30 seconds to less than 1 second- Established team-based code review process resulting in significant decrease (20-30%) in bugs reportedCreated large 2500+ hour Line of Business application from scratch (Project Lead)- Technologies Used: C#.NET 4.0, Backbone, WebAPI, SQL Server, Entity Framework - Team of 5 developers- Database of 50+ tables- Led team-based code reviews to aid the education of the junior developers and to create and maintain a high-quality codebase- Leveraged custom code generation templates to save time and effort and reduce bugs by automatically producing frequently-used data access code- Worked with another developer to create an efficient method to download entity objects without worrying about circular referencesIntegrated several external APIs into applications and worked with technologies new to the companyAudited prospective clients’ existing code to identify issues that could impact time and materials required for updates and maintenanceLed Lunch and Learn on Code Reviews, Project Demo on performance improvements using Backbone, and two Lunch and Learns on best practices and performance optimization with Entity Framework

Chicago, Il, Us

In charge of maintaining all code and scripts used by our tech team- Maintained and contributed code to a WinPE application for image deployment- Maintained and contributed code to a script for deploying silent software installs- Maintained and contributed code to a toner inventory app- Created a script to notify students of flash drives left plugged into the lab computersCreated Dell Diagnostic PXE boot option that boots into Dell Diagnostics specific to computer modelCreated and maintained all the images used by the school, including a 150GB lab imagePut together silent install scripts for dozens of software

Created console app to communicate with database and dump information into text filesCreated function to convert data packets into XML and backMade UI changes and bug fixesUsed scrum development schedule

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Master’S Degree, Software Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science, Concentration In Software Engineering