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Technical LeadOffer Configuration Website (May 2024 - September 2024)Developed Angular components and servicesAdded Prettier and eslint to the repositoryMentored junior Angular developers through peer reviews and brown bag sessionsPartner dashboard website (January 2024 - April 2024)Developed Angular components, services, and NgRx signal storesImproved performance by removing unused componentsShrunk bundle sizes by pointing components away from obsolete API services to newer servicesSpearheaded lint rules so that code quality could be automatically enforcedLeadershipCreated initial implementations of NgRx signal stores within the repository, creating reusable features and patternsMentored junior developers through gentle code reviewsWithin three months of joining the company, was promoted to a team that ensures coding standards are followed across a large repositoryPresented internally on TypeScript string types, the importance of type safety, using Prettier and eslint for code quality, and on NgRx’s action groups and features

Valiantys is the parent company of Oasis Digital

Greater St. Louis Area

I develop high-quality Angular applications with Oasis Digital, and I teach others to build them through Angular Boot Camp.* TrainingTaught Angular Boot Camp’s 3-day Angular course dozens of timesTaught students a variety of topics, from learning the basics of TypeScript and Angular through understanding Angular state management, including @ngrx/store, @ngrx/effects, Reactive Forms, and RxJSContributed to the course curriculum strategy decisionsAdded material to the course curriculum, including a step on @ngrx/effectsDesigned, implemented, and delivered a standalone two-day training course on NgRxCreated and delivered a custom 9-hour class on Angular and NgRx unit testing with JestManaged and tracked conference CFPs and submissions for all developers in the company using TrelloWrote articles on NgRx, ag-grid, and other topics on the company blog: https://blog.oasisdigital.com/author/lancefinney/

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Managed a team of 3-7 developersTrained and mentored client developers on Angular developmentCreated the Angular application using Nx for organization, Jest for unit testing, Cypress for e2e testing, and Prettier and eslint for code qualityCreated a team culture for code quality that resulted in unit test coverage of over 90% without imposing mandatesPropagated development best practices through thorough but gentle code reviewsDesigned and created many Angular components and servicesGenerated many Cypress end-to-end integration tests using fixtures to mock out the serverCreate a nested-forms architecture for state managementReplaced initial nested-forms architecture with a NgRx-based implementation for more scalable state managementIntroduced ngrx/router-store to simplify route-based state managementCreated expressive data grids using ag-gridCreated dynamically-generated nested reactive forms based on a JSON schemaImplemented a NestJS server to back the applicationAdded GraphQL, using both manually-written resolvers and PostGraphile for data transportCreated PostgreSQL databases to store user data and to serve as a mock backend for the actual enterprise data systemUpdated Jenkins files for consistent continuous integrationAssisted application of SonarQube quality control processesDocumented team practices in ConfluenceDemonstrated application success to client executivesCurated the list of stories for the team to demonstrate in each sprintRan twice-weekly developer scrum meetings

Greater St. Louis

Designed and created many Angular components and servicesWrote a cron editor Angular component using ControlValueAccessorsCreated a modal dialog utility based on the Angular CDK to enable standard and custom dialogsImproved runtime of two Jasmine test suites from 130 and 43 seconds to 6 and 17 seconds, respectivelyWrote pact contract tests to supply expectations to the backend teamImproved use of RxJS code in the legacy application, replacing explicit subscriptions with async pipesIntroduced Prettier and tslint rules to improve code qualityIntroduced best practices for NgRx stores, including handling arrays as entitiesEncouraged the client team to use types within TypeScript to improve code qualityMentored junior client developers on Angular, TypeScript, and testing

Fremont, California, United States

Designed and created many Angular components and servicesReplaced an existing custom grid implementation with ag-gridLed the team in building a unit testing suite with karma and jasmine with a high level of code coverageCollaborated with the customer to refine requirements both before and after initial implementation of featuresSpearheaded proof-of-concepts prototypes for new features of the application, like using JSON Patch librariesImplemented new UI features using Angular Material components and Material design principles, with Sass for stylingInvestigated replacing an ngrx implementation with NGXS, reporting a summary to the teamImplemented advanced ag-grid features like collapsible groups, row-column transposition, and custom stylesDeveloped a metadata-driven dynamic component using Reactive Forms that replaced twenty-four similar componentsRewrote a stand-alone C++ app as a feature of an Angular app, writing a custom reducer-based parser and using reactive forms and ag-grid to maintain validation and stateManaged project progress and state using JiraConducted code reviews with the team to maintain code quality

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Mentored a group of developers with beginner Angular skills on building a high-quality applicationDesigned and implemented a flexible architecture that dynamically created seven different purchase order applications using the same codebaseWorked remotely for the majority of the project, keeping in touch effectively via phone calls, emails, and online conferencing toolsTaught the team Angular unit testing using jasmine and karma, including testing Angular components and services

Fremont, California, United States

Created multiple Angular components using Angular MaterialCreated a component scaffold to enable developing a complicated component independent of the application contextAdded endpoints on a node.js layer that accessed Solr and Loopback engines on the server

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

Developed two generations of a high-quality web app, first in AngularJS (1.x), and then in Angular 2/4Updated the application on the leading edge of the Angular lifecycle, moving to Angular 2 during the alpha stage and staying up to date up through Angular 4Converted legacy Swing screens and Java logic to Angular Components and ServicesCreated extensive custom Angular components, including using libraries like D3 for images, Kendo UI for widgets, and Less for stylingBuilt a UI for an interface to an external device, using Observables and WebSockets to manage the connectionImplemented Redux-style state management using NgRxCreated and released two open source libraries: one to generate Java-style enums in TypeScript, and one that builds on the other to reduce boilerplate in ngrxAdded tables to the PostgreSQL database, writing Hibernate and custom SQL queriesWrote a Node.js script to convert Java properties files to and from custom JSON files to support multiple languagesMentored junior developers on web technologies and general programming techniquesFocused on unit test coverage, with extensive use of karma and Jasmine, including reducing test execution time by 98%

Greater St. Louis Area

*TrainingTaught and maintained OCI's Introduction to Java Programming course at Washington University’s PETLC.Taught OCI's Intermediate Java Programming, Developing Agile Requirements, Advanced Java Programming, Data Access in Java Using Hibernate, and Object-Oriented Design Patterns courses at PETLC.*WritingEdited, managed, and recruited authors for OCI's Java News Brief (now called Software Engineering Tech Trends), a monthly series of articles on various Java topics, for four years.Wrote ten Java News Brief/Software Engineering Tech Trends articles on various Java libraries and one on Angular: https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/.

Greater St. Louis Area

Led a team of up to twelve developers to successfully make many quarterly releases on time using Extreme ProgrammingManaged the team for my contracting company at the client site by resolving interpersonal issues, investigating hardware requirements, and performing basic contract maintenanceDeveloped Java components representing various engineering structures and conceptsCreated an internal framework based on Enums to define configuration for model and view components - the framework was successfully used and extended by several developers for dozens of componentsConverted many FORTRAN functions to application components, both by translating code and wrapping executablesParticipated in high-level and low-level issue prioritization, iteration planning, and release planningCreated extensive custom GUI components using Swing, JGoodies Forms, and Java 2DImplemented a units-conversion utility based on JScienceCreated an ANTLR grammar to parse existing legacy scriptsWorked with engineers to determine requirements, using an iterative process to obtain feedbackFocused on Test-Driven Development, with extensive use of JUnit, Jemmy, FIT, and FitnesseMaintained team coding standardsTook Mechanical Engineering classes at a Community College to improve subject matter expertiseUpdated two web applications written with Struts

Greater St. Louis Area

*Enterprise Web-based Inventory Forecasting, Supply Chain Forecasting, and Requirements Planning SoftwareDeveloped a Java n-tier application on a team using Extreme Programming and Swing on the client.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Systems Science And Chemical Engineering

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