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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.