John Millner Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida Area

In the Labor Systems Platform team of Disney, I have led multiple responsibilities from the design and prototype phase to its sustainment phase. Throughout, managing and mentoring small teams of developers while creating the platform back-end for 23+ API integrations of a large middleware project focused on scheduling and pay. Working primarily in Java11, with newer projects in GoLang in Google Cloud Platform's App Engine I have created an ecosystem of libraries, framework, and processes that our team depends on, and that outperforms Spring, while providing specific and consistent functionality across our platform. My daily activities are split between design, direct software development, and team leadership.

Orlando, Florida Area

As a contractor at Walt Disney World, Attractions Technology in Studio Asgard, team Shield and team Felix as a software developer, I created tests and frameworks to aid and assist SDET teams. While at Disney on a 6 month contract I created unit, product validation, integration, and end-to-end tests for internal and external API and business logic. jUnit and Serenity were the primary tools used to create the tests and reports which were used company wide to quickly and accurately identify and pinpoint failures in production and lower level environments. As a way to diagnose issues before the automated tests were created, I used Splunk to identify key areas to focus tests on, and pinpoint failure conditions. Throughout my time at Disney I constantly improved our code base and implemented new and useful features for the team to use on times when projects were blocked by lower environments including implementing an automated WireMock system that would automatically detect if an environment was down, and switch to mocked responses while debugging tests to reduce blocked time team wide. This was adopted and presented to several teams with positive support. In Scrum meetings I was able to properly convey and describe my progress, blockers, and effectively help team members when they were blocked where I was relevant. I was largely considered a resource to ask and solve questions and issues with Java and frequented by members of multiple teams for advice. Moving forward, my experience and hand-in-hand work with SDET teams has provided me with a larger perspective on production grade software, and has taught me the complete SDLC picture, and moving forward as a developer I can properly plan and design my software to both be elegant and efficient, but also simpler to test and document.

Orlando, Florida Area

At MVW as an intern on the Application Design team I worked closely with my team to create Spring Boot based applications, maintain compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and generate technical documentation for internal use. During my work there in the Application Design Team I lead my own project to completely rewrite an error handling program that automatically cleaned up common errors in internal queues and databases from architecture, design, code, testing, and documentation. This was said to greatly improve efficiency and reduce costs, as well as the increase in the readability of the code to help future maintenance.

Orlando, Florida Area

While working for the Center of Microgravity Research I designed and built the power supply board for a 2U cube satellite SurfSat that launched to Low Earth Orbit on September 15, 2018. The board uses multiple double redundant voltage regulators to balance load to the various computers and sensors on the satellite. SurfSat's mission, a joint project between NASA and UCF CMR as part of the ELaNa program accomplishes two experiments while in space for surface charges on various substrates as well as accurately measuring ESD events while in LEO compared to Earth measurements.

Orlando, Florida Area

As my Senior Design project I developed the idea of an autonomous multi-locomotive robot that could efficiently traverse both rough and smooth terrain. With the great help of our 4 member team we were able to design, build, and test a functioning robot that was purposed as a guard/sentinel autonomous robot that could patrol a GPS waypoint path and alert a human upon discovery of an intruder - allowing the controller to two way communicate to an intruder via, also included in the robot was a powerful light for night patrol as well as for stunning an intruder when in strobe mode. The robot was equipped with a daytime 2d lidar, gps, imu, camera, microphone, and powerful light as its sensors. high level autonomy was performed using ROS on a Raspberry Pi 3 and with low level functions running on Arduino RTOS. I was responsible for autonomous navigation and way point following using an A* Path replanner, GPS and IMU sensor integration using an unscented Kalman Filter, the ROS backbone and overall design of the electrical and software architecture including 3 custom circuit boards consisting of a fuel gauge, imu, and custom arduino mega. To allow for better parallelization of work I also created a test platform for sigsent using a TutleBot 2 borrowed from the Robotics Club at UCF to work as a testbed for developing the higher level autonomy functions of the robot while the actual SigSent platform was being developed.

Orlando, Florida Area

As team Captain of Ness, UCF's entries into the 2015-2017 AUVSI RoboSub international autonomous submarine robotics competition I lead a group of ~10 team members over 4 years to plan, design, build, and test a complicated autonomous robot. I created several unique contributions in mechanical and electrical areas such as a large (8-9") coupling device that allows the submarine to be split into 4-5 discrete sections that each had its own semi-independent role within the competition. Equally I designed and created the electrical system To transport power and data throughout the sub efficiently with a focus on reducing human-error. Throughout the project I raised, managed and balanced funding for materials and the cost of the competition and travel.

Orlando, Florida Area

As President of the Robotics Club I've put all of my passion into making robotics and improving the world through them. As President I oversee the club, manage meetings, create sponsorship partners, solve social problems, set-up events, and distribute workflow among other tasks.

Orlando, Florida Area

As an elected officer of the Robotics Club I filled my duties as Treasurer of the Robotics Club at UCF, collecting club dues and recording those transactions as well as being an active advisory and member of the club. There I quickly established myself as a trusted and effective member of the club creating several initiatives for the club such as an internal competition for new members of the club to begin learning about robotics, out-reach programs where we support our local public schools, and also creating relationships with companies to become our sponsorships. In November I was then elected to become President of the Robotics Club

Oviedo, Florida

Taught and tutored small classes of students aged between 8-14 on the simpler concepts and theories of robotics and then applying those concepts and making small simple robots from the Lego Mindstorms Kits.

Orlando, Fl

At Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control I worked within the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies group where I focused on creating small mechanical and software solutions for various manufacturing problems or improvements. I worked on small teams for automating optical inspection of parts and precision robotic arm movement. I contributed designs, experiments, data, and opinion on an internal white paper and researched various ways to implement robotics and other methods to decrease stress and strain on the operators or reduce error in the manufacturing process.

At Cinedrones I worked to create Cinema level professionally designed Quad/Hex/Octo copters. There I was able to quickly become a key member of the small business and worked hands on creating large multi-rotor vehicles in the emerging industry of hobby and professional cinema drones. I worked on all levels of the construction of the purpose built devices from assembly to system integration and quality control. Despite my short time there (later being recruited by Lockheed Martin) I gained a significant insight into power electronics and carbon fiber construction.

Hudson, Fl

I worked on designing and troubleshooting the production and manufacturing processes to create new flagship products for Mood Hoops. Secondary roles included technical soldering, product assembly, and quality control.

Florida Area

At CadComPro I worked in a small engineering firm focused on creating BOMA grade schematics of various buildings and warehouses through laser measurement devices and CAD as well as working on the development of the companies website.

Crystal River, Fl

While not a job that relates to engineering, I do feel that my short time at Publix humbled and strengthened myself with better self-management and soft-skills before moving to more professional roles as I focused on my education at UCF.

Inverness, Fl

I worked with a small team writing code and designing websites for customers with the coding languages of PHP, HTML, and CSS.

Brooksville, Fl

I worked hands on in the engineering field, updating old drawings with revisions, redrawing products on updated systems, filing, and engineering new products within the actuator industry. In my stay I designed several new prototype designs. I also helped with picking up minor roles throughout the company, learning through first hand experience both technical and marketing skills.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Robotics Club at UCF

Minor, Intelligent Robotic Systems

Activities and Societies: Robotics Club at UCF