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Palo Alto, California, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Dictionary.com is an online dictionary and thesaurus. Back end developer, maintaining dictionary content ingestion tools and APIs, building and maintaining infrastructure and CI pipelines.Collaborated with product, design and other engineers to architect a user account system built with Terraform, Semaphore CI, AWS Cognito, Amplify.js, Apollo GraphQL, 3rd party payment and email integrationsDesigned and built a dictionary ingestion pipeline using Node.js and RedisGraph. - Led scoping meetings, wrote proposal and ticketed remaining work, including dependencies. - Increased speed of completing work by refactoring and adding optimizations, including tweaking RedisGraph Cypher queries for improved performance.- Devised solution to implement shortcut path, which accelerated time to delivery of MVP.Maintained dozens of Fastly services, supporting CDN across multiple domains.Configured and deployed integrated sandbox environment for cross-domain testing of features under development.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Tripping.com is a metasearch website for vacation rentals. Back end developer, integrating partner inventory for display on site.• Domain expert for partner integrations ETL processes, maintaining multiple interfaces (FTP, RESTful APIs, SOAP), and processing XML or JSON through transformation and storage in SQL database.• Increased speed to build partner integrations from 2 months to 2 weeks by writing extensible, reusable code and reusable test suite, blogged here: https://engineering.tripping.com/using-rspec-shared-examples-for-reusable-ruby-tests-d1523538599b• Built out the product from SEO, UI, A/B test perspectives, and updated available fields in ElasticSearch through code changes in Erlang app.• Reduced dependency on monolith app by building an Elixir/Phoenix microservice for partner API integration• Led large-scale database migration, adding a new field to a large table, which supported a new sort order for property photos on the site, and worked with Ops to ensure a seamless rollout• Maintained and improved quality of the codebase and documentation through thorough code reviews, extensive unit testing, and writing documentation for features implemented and post mortem learnings from projects.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Joined Celerity as a Project Consultant for a data validation project with a natural gas utility client and progressed to Senior Engineering Consultant in 4 years. As part of an effort to document over 5000 miles of gas pipelines, began by researching engineering documents, prepared analysis reports for those pipelines, and then moved to Quality Control to validate each component meets engineering standards.- Led a project to develop and implement a process for tracking and correcting dozens of errors logged by the team, which immediately improved the quality of data for other teams within the organization.- Wrote a guideline for a team of 40, and was sought out by leadership to review many other guidelines for consistency and typographical errors prior to production, due to attention to detail and eye for grammar.- Collaborated across teams to standardize field data reports from an external vendor, and to communicate the team's requirements to developers, so SharePoint could work simply and efficiently for users.- With input from the head of Engineering, developed Celerity's roles and responsibilities for all Engineering Consultants, and contributed to the Employee Handbook, as part of an HR effort to provide clear and consistent expectations to all employees.- Recommended and helped to organize a weekly communication to update team on QA findings to continually improve quality of team's work.- To analyze language used in project documents, took initiative to learn MS Access and SQL queries to create a multi-table database for faster analysis. Presented findings to project leadership with recommendations for improved language use.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As part of large-scale SAP implementations, collaborated with Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries to understand the business requirements in order to build a customized SAP solution for their needs. Participated in all project phases: gathered business requirements; wrote functional requirements based on SAP configuration best suited to each client; created test plans from functional requirements; wrote and executed test scripts through unit, integration, and user acceptance testing; supported clients in transition to SAP from their legacy systems. - Led a team of 10 to create over 1,000 test cases and conditions: wrote and executed test scripts, tracked progress of over 800 integration tests, and resolved dozens of testing problems.- Created procedure documents to guide end users through new processes, and provided step-by-step instructions including screen shots of their SAP system.- While leading workshops to identify client business requirements, saved time by keeping the group on agenda and tabling other topics for further discussion.- Developed SAP solution collaboratively with clients, coached them through business transformation, and escalated serious client concerns to the project management team.- Guided clients in writing test cases and executing in SAP to ensure that company-wide functionality met each division’s unique requirements .

London, Gb

Provided necessary research for successful development of over a dozen products within the Wealth Management division. - Researched over 30 national and international private banking competitors and captured dataabout competitors including products, target customers, and current strategies- Reviewed existing products to see how they would fare under a new pre-release testingframework- Investigated and recommended courses of action for over a dozen financial products

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

August - December 2004, May - August 2005With Controls Product Engineering Group, built an electronic controller for torque wrenches and other industrial tools. Tested hardware and software, assembled prototypes, and designed and built test tools.- Redesigned logic circuitry of a circuit board tester to improve functionality and robustness- Designed and built an input/output tester to interface with tool controller- Developed layout for and assembled a small circuit board for integration into tool controller- Tested software functionality and wrote bug reports using TestTrack Pro

Full Stack Web Development

Bs Integrated Business And Engineering, Bs Electrical Engineering

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