Mark Albiston Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

United States

Boise, Idaho, United States

Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand business processes and needs to design solutions for software features across multiple integrated systems. Collaborate with internal and external development teams and consultants to plan, execute, and test application enhancements, maintain end user support, and manage ongoing updates.Facilitate the forecasting, planning, and scheduling of the software development team's workload using Agile framework and Scrum methods encouraging collaboration and promoting team ownership.

Boise, Idaho, United States

Worked in Agile Scrum environment, testing various software applications, features, and bug fixes using both black box and white box testing approaches. Developed acceptance criteria based on business processes and user needs. Identified root cause and developed fixes for system bugs. Created software development and testing lifecycle processes to apply to Microsoft Dynamics CRM system resulting in overall reduction in bugs reported by users. Managed software releases/deployments.

Boise, Idaho Area

Experience building full-stack web apps, from database design to front end user interface. Various course programming projects implemented with, and showing proficiency in the following:• Python, C#, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS • React, Node.js, Express.js• MySQL, Entity Framework Core, MongoDB• Django, Flask, ASP.NET Core• Git, Socket.io, SignalRProjects:Baseball DataViz -- Single page application to visualize interactive charts of baseball statisticsReact, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Express, Recharts, Material-UI• Designed MongoDB database models/schemas for “Player” and “Team” to support visuals allowing for significant versatility• Used JavaScript and Recharts library to manipulate stored data in order to present as:o Scatterplot, Multi-series line chart, sortable bar charts, pie chart • Styled front end with Material-UI for seamless user interfaceCards Against MadLibs -- Multiplayer card game mashup of MadLibs and Cards Against Humanity C#, .NET Core, MySQL, JavaScript, SignalR• Employed SignalR to achieve functional gameplay for multiple simultaneous users• Applied user login/registration backend validations and password hashing using .NET Core to create individual accounts• Stored custom game cards in MySQL database for simple and clean retrieval• Created functionality for card submission, countdown timer, and user voting interaction using JavaScript and JQuery for responsive and interactive gameplay experienceFamily Cookbook -- Community where users can save, store, and share recipesPython, Django, MySQL• Applied user login/registration backend validations using Django validators and applied password hashing with bcrypt for safe data storage• Stored recipe cards in MySQL database with relationships to Users, Families, Comments, and Categories for versatile and effective organization• Styled front end with Bootstrap for clean user interface• Full CRUD interactions allow users to entirely control their own recipes

Greater Chicago Area

Serve as consulting engineer to large Architecture/Engineering firms servicing energy utilities, providing fluid dynamic modeling and calculations to support design and performance of nuclear power plant systems.

Naperville, Il; Boise, Id

Develop engineering change packages to organize and present all impacts of a design across all affected disciplines, providing all technical justification for the change and updating all plant documentation (calculations, drawings, operating and maintenance procedures, manuals, test plan, licensing docs, etc.) and combining into one organized, complete, and well documented report. o Served as primary technical resource for thermal hydraulic calculations pertaining to many areas of nuclear power plant operation, and in doing so, prepared and reviewed thermal hydraulic analyses for safety-related applications including pump performance, heat exchanger performance, air conditioner sizing, room transient heat-up, combustible loading, High Energy Line Break transients, room/area flooding, and piping and ductwork pressure drop. Specializing in thermal hydraulic analyses with experience using the following hydraulic software: GOTHIC, AFT Fathom, AFT Arrow, Pipe Flo, Solidworks Flow Simulation.o Served as lead mechanical engineer for multi-discipline projectso Project Management: required to track and manage budget and schedule of project tasks, proposal development for project bids, resource forecasting o Acted as technical and social mentor for younger engineerso Developed documentation for software installation Quality Assurance verification and validationo Earned outstanding performance award for 2015o Experience with 2D & 3D modeling using AutoCAD & Solidworkso Prepared P&ID and isometric layouts piping drawings for plant modificationso Experience applying safe work practices and abiding by quality assurance procedures and standards

Master Of Science (M.S.), Nuclear Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Nuclear Society Student MemberThesis titled "Experimental and CFD Single Phase Heat Transfer Studies.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Beta Theta Pi, Order of the Engineer