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Glen Allen, Virginia, United States

• Development of interdepartmental systems for the handling of encrypted data, in order to provide replacements which reduced tech debt.
• Developing and supporting development tools such as command line programs to ensure repeatable setup patterns across developer machines, reducing the downtime when switching from project to project.
• Assisting in production of proof-of-concept systems to replace the encrypted data handlers, in order to reduce upkeep costs by up to 50%, in comparison to the existing on-premise systems.
• Assisted in development and conception of internal test driven development tools for said proof of concept systems, in order to uphold the previously established standard of 90 to 95% code coverage.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Development and maintenance on a web-based feed lot management site, in order to ensure smooth user experience.
• Heavy focus on frontend work, in particular with a focus on the reliability of load times in low-speed environments, in order to aid in reduction of client issues when accessing the web pages in the field.

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

• Updating and maintenance of a web project, particularly with intent to improve the User Interface and User Experience, in order to aid in customer retention of focus in handling large, complex datasets.
• Development and display of SQL stored procedures and their resultant data, as well as the use of CSS animations, to improve the outcomes required by the clients in their business cases.

Moline, Illinois, United States

Performed maintenance and improvement on web projects, primarily based in ASP.NET MVC4, focused on removing dependency on outside code to improve security of code base.

Moline, Illinois, United States

• Trained in a wide variety of enterprise-level skills and libraries, in order to develop generalized job readiness in the targeted placement environment.
• While awaiting placement, built upon the trained skill set by taking initiative to produce several projects designed to not only develop skill, but build a portfolio exhibiting said skill sets.
• Primary placement focused on development and maintenance of public facing agricultural data API, reduced overall bug count in stored SQL procedures by 15%.