Joshua May Email & Phone Number

Remote

Senior level consultant - Full stack developer working on defect management and enterprise architecture projects for the Veterans Affairs.My standout skills are my soft skills like heightened communication, the ability to work effectively communicate technical concepts to a broad audience with a range of technical understanding, and working in client facing roles to present, educate, and achieve results.Refactoring legacy React applications and contributing to new features with typescript using modern Functional React components including hooks, custom hooks, Java, and Jest with React Testing Library in a test driven development approach.Working within an Agile environment performing defect management, resolving bugs quickly and efficiently across a wide span of different front end languages, frameworks, libraries, and a Java back end. Experience and exposure to tools like Fortify scans, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, KeyCloak, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform, and other modern tool sets.Mentoring other developers, writing and maintaining important technical documentation, and contributing to projects by trying to improve existing processes when possible.

Ice Box is a freelancing effort where I spend time working on personal projects and other interesting ways to explore new technologies and keep a pulse on what's going on in my industry. Coding is a lot like sports, when you're serious about your craft it spills over long after your 9-5 is over.

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Serving in a dual role by performing the duties of a project lead in a client-facing role that updates stakeholders and ensures project success while balancing technical requirements through actively contributing to the project's code base.Using comprehensive technical knowledge to identify customers’ information systems requirements, from initiation and planning to execution and closing.Working within a cross-organizational team to successfully resolve problems, achieve a common understanding of issues, and deliver needed results on requested technical projects.Leading complex IT projects, including application development efforts, facilitating data migrations, and other requested solutions per project requirements.Ensuring activities are completed in accordance with the project scope and within the approved schedule and budget constraints.Demonstrating leadership to define requirements and plan project lifecycle deployment; defining resources and scheduling for project implementation, ensuring systems testing strategies, plans, or scenarios are completed on schedule.Creating strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning as well as planning and scheduling project deliverables, goals, and milestones for requested projects.Ensuring appropriate gold standards and best practices are established and followed.Effectively communicating to team members, supervisors, executive level leaders through presentations, online meetings, emails and various reporting methodologies.Working within a cross-organizational team to successfully resolve problems, achieve a common understanding of issues, and deliver needed results on projects.

Previous Project Contributions:- Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry (DVEIVR)Previous Project Contributions: - National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICOE)- Joint Hearing and Auditory System Injury Registry (JHASIR)Support application development utilizing the best practices and latest technology advancements in a CAC-enabled environment.Translate use case requirements, technical specifications, and design into code for new or enhancement projects on legacy code.Participate in design, code, and test inspections throughout the life cycle to identify issues/defects; participate in other meetings, such as those for use case creation.Collaborate with Project Sponsors, customers, various levels of leadership, developers, UX/UI Designer, and production team to ensure all designs and development are to standard.Successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously, handle a fast-paced work environment, and meet deadlines consistently.

Ladson, South Carolina

Day to day web development operations for an internationally recognized brand and industry leader in the sporting goods industry.Hands on experience managing third party technology vendors, project management, working with cross functional teams including UI/UX, Marketing, Sales, and directly working with top level executives in our corporate office setting.Ecommerce management and administration of two major public facing Shopify stores (G.loomis and Shimano) responsible for parts replacements, updated schematics, and apparel sales.B2B experience including field research during the requirements gathering and development stages of the application to ensure the user experience matched the desires of the end customer to streamline the way stores purchase products from Shimano North America.Responsible for developing and maintaining technical documentation, how-to-guides, and training materials centered around the adoption and integration of a new Salesforce CRM platform where I was in charge of leading all training for 50 + sales reps and area managers to ensure 100% onboarding KPI's and continued use as prescribed by the business.Contributed to major brand overhauls of our primary internationally recognized brand sites including, but not limited to Shimano North America Fishing and G.loomis.Responsible for coordinating new product launches in coordination with trade shows, deadlines, and prescribed launch dates and time with our headquarters in Japan.Data organization, sanitization, and management for over 10,000 sku's for various reel parts including legacy and new models.Back to back ICAST award winning team that lifted multiple awards including best in show over the course of my time spent working for Shimano North America Fishing.

Charleston, South Carolina

An intensive coding school where I spend 60+ hours a week dedicated to writing and learning full-stack development with languages and frameworks such as CSS, HTML5, BootStrap, Mongoose, SQL, Node JS, Responsive Web Design, JavaScript, Java, and more.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

$8500.00 - Net profit for the company per month - Responsible for building a book of business through cold-calling and providing logistics to both client and third parties responsible for transporting goods throughout the continental United States in a high-volume, fast-paced, stressful environment. Key manager of northeastern freight for large companies such as Continental Paper Grading with references available.

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

High level soccer academy based on individual progress and player development over winning.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology And Human Interaction, Gpa: 2.8

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha FraternityA University of South Carolina graduate and an active member of Pi Kappa Alpha.

Environmental Science

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha

Business/Commerce, General

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Alpha