Senior Engineer, Project Lead, and Team Lead. Manager of Engineering Internship.We are developing exciting and groundbreaking solutions to connect patients, providers, and payers to their healthcare data.

Rebuilding and refining the public website to manage club information, leaderboards, events, and more.Supporting inclusive, social, and free poker at local restaurants around the Pacific Northwest.

Data engineering, modeling, reporting, automation, testing, and pipelining work with big and messy data (using Kusto, DAX, MDX, SQL, XMLA, JSON, C#, Power BI) for the Azure Cognitive Services Data Science Team.

While freelancing and working contracts, I designed and built a startup for training and consulting services centered around database design, data platform optimization, automation, & tuning, data science, quality assurance, web development, and project management. Designed and taught multiple data-centric workshops and courses.Under NewPoint.io, incubated 3+ startup projects - mentoring and employing University of Washington students:1) Improvite is an application that allows for 'improvised invitations' between relative strangers based on their common hobbies or special interests.2) Teamify is an application that improves productivity while building camaraderie in both professional and personal settings with friendly acknowledgements of team-based behavior.3) iVoted is an application tracking election activity using blockchain technology while also providing a portal of election-based historical information.And other student projects (giving them real-world experience while building out interesting things for fun): helping them build out projects and solutions in healthcare, social and professional networking, social clubs, and more.

Multiple short-term contracts and projects: primarily in web development/design, database management, data QA and automation, software engineering, and software architecture.

Contract for Insight Global at Microsoft.Worked in the Cloud and Enterprise security services group. (O365, Exchange, and Azure Security).Focuses included: Building new cloud-based environments for secure malware analysis, writings scripts and adding tooling to introduce automation, rotating primary on-call, troubleshooting live site incidents, implementing database performance improvements, and data analysis to improve incident investigation and resolution times.

Developing and delivering all aspects of a live, professional course in database design, development, and administration with a focus on SQL, MySQL, Data Warehousing, ETL processes, Business Intelligence, some NoSQL, and some Data Science topics.Designing and building the curriculum, case studies, quizzes, assignments, slides, and components for demos: SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, Python, Visual Studio, SSIS/AS/RS, Visio and LucidChart for ERDs, etc.Hosting multiple weekly online Office Hours and one-on-one sessions to address student concerns and questions dynamically.Interviewing and collaborating with industry professionals and other instructors to ensure content consistency, continuity, concurrency, and relevance.Initiating and supervising in-class discussions, advocating for students, and answering questions regarding all relevant topics.Creating content for lectures and demos on SQL Server performance, high-availability, troubleshooting, monitoring, optimizing, and tuning.Managing feedback and grading assessments for 35-40 mid-career students.Link to Certificate: https://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/database-managementLink to Instructor Profile: https://www.pce.uw.edu/instructors/melissa-parsons

Provided internal (onsite) and external technical support for the company's various products.Configured optical character recognition software, compiled directories, mobile tools, server, and network needs.Worked with customers to configure product features for specific requirements.Installed, configured and managed internal development, test and support environments.Worked in Quality Assurance, testing for bugs in image processing software.

Contract for Wimmer Solutions at Microsoft.Performed incident management and configuration for thousands of agents globally.Supported and triaged technical issues that affect all of Microsoft's lines of business.System Administrator for the internal and external customer assistance portal, with a small team.

Gathered requirements and specifications from teams, and compiled all client needs.Independently redesigned and revamped the company’s public-facing website while implementing requested changes and resolving issues/bugs.Discussed SEO, marketing and responsive/mobile site design tactics.

With a team of 6, prepared and presented innovative concepts and ideas in front of management.Assisted in building a new SharePoint site for merging Liberty Mutual and Safeco Compliance teams.Composed and researched audit results, resolving discrepancies across East and West Coast groups.

Assisted in the development of open data solutions and websites for governments.Led client implementation meetings and resolved customer support issues. Assisted in debugging site issues and authoring documentation.

With a team of interns, built a UI and back-end for the company's internal communications and processes.Presented and documented projects to upper management.

Examined social and technological aspects of online community collaboration; specifically, hand-coded linguistic data from alternate reality gaming sites with a research team. Manipulated and analyzed successful methods for automated coding of linguistic data.

Advised undergraduate students on college admissions, experiences, domestic and international documentation, situations, and policies.Handled sensitive documentation and delicate situations for diverse body of students.Collaborated internally on policies and organization.

Worked with a graduate student and lab members on a resistance robotic tool for rehabilitation use.Independently researched, designed, and created force sensors for surgical tools and implemented them with a simple graphical representation.Studied other neurobiology, electrical and computer engineering projects within the lab.

Taught martial arts and concepts to full youth and adult classes of up to 40 students.Organized agendas and activities for classes.Supervised self-defense seminars, tests, demonstrations, and teacher training.