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Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Maintain DevOps infrastructure for bank messaging line of business processing 17M+ requests/month for all bank correspondences.Augment team by identifying teammate deficiencies and provide learning opportunities.Converted legacy applications to utilize automated, pre-approved releases for quicker, more painless deployments to production.Created documentation and knowledge share to clarify processes with an entirely new team to allow quicker incident resolution and support request completion.Completed MySQL Aurora 5.6 to 5.7 upgrade with minimal downtime.Converting nightly batch processing infrastructure to serverless Lambdas to reduce EC2 costs.Reduced company paper cost by $2m by decommissioning a legacy application.Devised MySQL data archival strategy for multi-billion row tables and multiple terabytes of data with minimal production database impact to improve query performance.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

Tech lead for complete proprietary system rewrite focusing on process improvements, quality, maintainability, user experience, and long term benefit. Oversee full stack development and implement complex features (Angular, NGRX, C# .NET Core, SQL Server) assisting and training team members as necessary.Manage Jira project backlog, create tickets, delegate tickets to team, and collaborate cross-functionally to identify pain points and create technical solutions. Maintain system level context for planning work. Create plans to reduce and manage current and avoid future technical debt. Manage git repositories and Jenkins build/deployment.Provide mentorship for new hires related to career growth and making connections within the company.Conduct interviews for entry-level to mid-level software developers and improve interview processes.Communicate abstract design ideas and implementation approaches to other developers to assist with programming of features. Empower team members in their work and career with guidance and mentorship. Find what motivates team members with varied work and conversations. Identify and eliminate fat in processes to improve quality and long term stability. Innovate on existing systems, recognize new areas for innovation, and determine the roadmap and feasibility of solutions.Assist as needed on other projects, including conceiving, creating PoC, and leading effort to containerize (Docker) field operations applications to reduce support costs, ease troubleshooting, and decrease burden on deploying updates.Team's first point of contact for SQL Server performance tuning. Conduct knowledge sharing sessions and create documentation for SQL performance and practices. Help other developers learn new tools, languages, and frameworks.Formulated innovative change to survey user management to eliminate repetitive manual intervention for long term benefit.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

Find, fix, document, and present SQL performance content to entire team. Documentation has been shared across the division to all development teams.Identified, proposed solution for, and helped implement a fix for a key security concern affecting all surveys in division.Assist with data collection tasks by creating SQL scripts for gathering contacting information to email study participants to complete surveys.Member of the MGLS team which created software solutions to pivot from in person student data collection to contactless remote data collection due to COVID-19.Primary developer creating the field data collection system for the Battelle Development Inventory 3rd Edition to increase the efficiency of data collection and automate case assignment for our client. Lead developer for the school Tip Line survey programming and school contacting system.Primary software developer for startup of ExCEL Quality study, implementing custom solution for landing page routing Teachers to multiple surveys. Designed and implemented data collection contacting page and stored procedure.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server application development for educational studies including Middle Grade Longitudinal Study (MGLS), High School & Beyond (HS&B), Graduate Student Survey (GSS), National Post-Secondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), and more. Implement changes and improvements to existing School Contacting Systems and Field Reporting Systems across multiple studies, program survey questions with RTI's Hatteras survey engine and develop custom solutions for more complex or customized questions. Ensure consistent look and feel of survey UI across devices.

Durham, Nc, Us

UST subsystem Subject Matter Expert.Assisted with requirements gathering for UST subsystem restructuring and redesign. Responsible for creating work breakdown structure for UST subsystem enhancement.Planned development effort, priority, and dependency of tasks to assist team moving from a Waterfall methodology to Scrum development.Communicated constantly with team members for knowledge transfer as well as clients to answer questions around current functionality and future subsystem behavior.Performed code reviews to ensure standards, maintain quality, and catch and correct business logic errors.Maintenance and support software development in the Worker's Compensation division. Communicates with DCO personnel to clarify and gather requirements for maintenance and support issues.Assist with and complete enhancements following requirements for multiple customers. Gather requirements and assist with A&D process for enhancements. Share knowledge from enhancement development experience with maintenance and support team.

Asheville, Nc, Us

Asheville, Nc, Us

Created an OBD2 data logger and data visualization application to collect and analyze driving and race track information. Included Arduino programming, Arduino assembly and testing, and python application development.https://github.com/j-moges/ArduinoStuffhttps://github.com/j-moges/GraphingDev

Asheville, Nc, Us

Assisted with the development and launch of "Seeking STEM"​ games for the North Carolina Science Festival. Reviewed and corrected logic flaws in games created by first year computer science students, devised a method to gather and test student inputs for equations, ensured the games would display using ProcessingJS

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Database migration of PhysicianFocus web app UI from Oracle to a Postgres database. Participated in daily scrum meetings, helped train new hire on the project for the completion and release of the Oracle database retirement.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Engineering Technology/Technician