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I worked full stack on a front facing point of sale display and creating a data warehouse projected to save the company over $100,000 per year.• I headed up tools and architecture research for the live updating aspect of front facing display.• I learned and implemented many new tools and technologies such as Terraform and AWS Database Migration Service to create and maintain data pipelines to feed the data warehouse.• I wrote SQL and other code to normalize data from the hundreds of MySQL source databases to create a clean, organized, single source of truth data warehouse running Citus.

Denver, Co

I worked full stack in React and Node handling new development, maintenance, bug fixes, and support on our flagship application - a point of sale system processing over $3 billion per year. I was also named team co-lead, was on the hackathon team that won Biggest Money Driver, and founded the engineering book club.• I refactored complex areas of multiple services to eliminate bugs and improve performance, including pricing and compliance services.• I was lead developer or a major contributor on important projects such as cashless ATM, the cashier gateway, and the sales saga.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

I did Angular 7 development using NgRx on My Account, a customer service platform serving 2.6 million users and processing $1.1 billion per year in online payments. Later volunteered for an early stage project building Node microservices using Docker in AWS Lambda.• My notable contributions include co-design and formation of the preference center, condensing four landing pages to a single dynamic repo, and creating our notification system.• I was actively involved in process improvement, including major revisions to support systems and copy delivery.• I was a winning hackathon team member, selected for the inaugural machine learning course, and founded the Node Developer Chapter.

Madison, Wisconsin

I built custom web solutions for various clients primarily with JavaScript, leveraging technologies such as Polymer, jQuery, Django, and Google Places. Worked with dynamic forms, public and private APIs, e-commerce cart and menu systems, and wrote custom validation. • I was the majority code contributor for our largest client, also handled client relationship and project management when needed.• I took initiative to organize the development team and implement best practices from day one.• I built a document management system from scratch in coordination with a back end developer.

Madison, Wisconsin

I contributed features, bug fixes, and support in an agile environment using the MEAN stack and Hogan templating.• I built many significant features including image cropping, form validation, default text avatars, and certain workflow re-writes.• I found and fixed a critical security flaw while senior developers were occupied at a conference.• I was given ownership of the email app.

Boulder, Co

Intensive program of study that gives hundreds of hours of hands on full stack web development experience with cutting edge web technologies.• I completed a virtually pixel perfect web page from a mock up on Day 3.• I was creating pages with dynamic and editable content using jQuery by Week 2.• For the midterm I built a tic tac toe web application featuring an unbeatable recursive depth searching artificial intelligence and responsive design.• For the final project I built an in-browser multiplayer space combat game featuring real time dogfighting and multiple ship designs.

Madison, Wi

I led quality operations at the Teklad Research Diets facility. I was responsible for checking ingredients and clearing each diet produced, handling customer complaints, and creation and maintenance of all ISO documents.• I learned all responsibilities and caught up on three months back log in less than 90 days.• I brought all paperwork into spec allowing us to pass ISO audit for recertification.• I worked with mixers to create and improve mixing instructions for new and existing diets resulting in improved pellet quality and reduced customer complaints.

New Glarus, Wi

I performed final inspections and cleared product to ship, and I progressed to take on multiple roles including smokehouse monitoring, raw side monitoring and product testing.• I cleared product to ship and on many occasions I worked with production to fix problems that enabled product to pass inspection.• I learned NIR spectrometer sample analysis and passed a HACCP certification test allowing me to assume additional responsibilities.• I progressed to a leadership role with occasional quality supervisor responsibility, making final decisions on whether or not to place a product on hold.