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Apopka, Fl, Us

Helping coordinate 190+ countries for the annual olympics-style, international robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. This September, the competition is in Athens, Greece.

Apopka, Florida, United States

Software Development▪️ Building a library of software coding to automate robots to move tapes for data management.▪️ Wrote conversion scripts for non standardized data files.Project Management▪️ Overseeing entire software library automation processes.▪️ Maintaining daily operations on legacy software.

Management▪️ Oversaw the transition from a team of developers from an underperforming third party to a team 5x the scale.▪️ Implemented scrum sprints to achieve faster development turnaround with accountability.▪️ Oversaw the project manager and team implementing SOC2 compliance and certification.Technical▪️ Improvement of security conditions by working with vendor to address AWS vulnerabilities.▪️ Reduced cost of monthly server expenses by 75% by leading a code optimization initiative.

Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States

Technical▪️ Created one of the first government/house of faith/non-profit central databases in the country to collaborate resources, training, and other tools to prevent families on the edge of homelessness from losing their housing.▪️ Project managed the modification and implementation of the primary database system Spirit for specific network needs managing cases of 10,000+ people.Management | Leadership | Volunteer Coordinator▪️ Managed over 250 volunteers and provided support through training and recruiting technical liaisons.▪️ Recruited and onboarded new volunteers on an ongoing basis.▪️ Nurtured relationships with organizations for continued support.Training▪️ Technical training of staff, volunteers, and students at houses of faith, government agencies, and nonprofits.P&L▪️ Oversaw $100k contract with Spirit to make system modifications.▪️ Presented regularly to grant providers about status of the technology platforms.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

Project Management▪️ Development and maintenance of various web properties with a monthly traffic of 5 million unique visitors.▪️ Development of Authorize.Net, Stripe, and Shopify checkout systems for product and subscription purchases.▪️ Extensive REST API integrations for reporting and connecting shopping portals with publication systems.Production▪️ Professional sound studio design and consultant for podcast network with over one million downloads in first year.▪️ Editorial and marketing consulting to modernize outdated workflows for both digital and print mediums.

Winter Park, Florida, United States

Management▪️ Management of team of 10 developers to achieve rapid feature development goals within financial constraints.▪️ Onboarding and continued training/mentorship of team members.Technical▪️ Defined technologies required for creation of enterprise-grade live video stream content delivery for church services and Christian conferences.▪️ Built a top-tier and highly regarded streaming provider in the house of worship market within two years.▪️ Development of full stack incorporating Wowza servers and various Amazon Web Service components for a fully scalable and redundant system with international ingress servers and content distribution.▪️ Redevelopment of libraries and server stack with Akamai partnership to improve content delivery network.P&L▪️ Assisted in oversight of budget to determine priority of development requirements to address feature requests to encourage new clients to join.▪️ Created initial minimum viable product on a $15,000 budget and continued to expand as houses of worship and companies became clients.Marketing▪️ Creation of trade show and promotional content to reach new house of worship audiences.▪️ Created advertising for Facebook and organic growth.Results▪️ At time of sale, over 100 houses of worship on 5 continents used product with audience of tens of thousands of unique viewers.

Longwood, Florida, United States

Project Management▪️ Identified program requirements for various ministry needs to support growth.▪️ Oversight of web projects and technical volunteer training.▪️ Mission work involving regular remote and on-site consulting with multiple organizations in Kyiv, Ukraine and multiple visits each year.Technical▪️ Determined the numerous languages, technologies, and SaaS products to meet unique needs.▪️ Development of PHP and node.js-based reporting systems, prayer wall, bible readings, media managers.▪️ Extensive work within ExpressionEngine and expanding capabilities based on ministry requirements.▪️ Roku integration for use in prisons nationwide and by dozens of distributed church house gatherings.▪️ Development of financial giving system through Stripe to allow congregants to donate to those in our benevolence ministry.

University Of Central Florida

▪️ Researched ways to better engage users in a serious gaming environment and to maximize users’ desire to train multiple times.▪️ Design, execution, and evaluation of studies on reducing costs and improving immersion in simulations and serious games.▪️ Research of techniques to improve collaboration among soldiers, researchers, and instructors through development of communities of practice and various emerging commercial web tools.▪️ Development of study analysis tools

Orlando, Fl

▪️ Development of curriculum and simulation missions to train people in a virtual flight school environment while actively engaging them in a realistic gaming environment with Microsoft Flight Simulator X.▪️ Creation of show ready simulator controllers for school and museum environments

University Of Central Florida

▪️ Development of C++ library implementation of Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS), an international standard that defines communication protocols for unmanned vehicle systems, some of their internal components, and their interaction with operator control stations.▪️ Developed compact Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) built on x86 architecture capable of working within mixed reality environments and conforming to JAUS standards to be controlled by various Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) devices (Joystick, Wiimote, etc)▪️ Developed simulation and data analysis tool for parsing multiple gigabyte worth of text file databases containing human performance data▪️ Assisted in managing Army Research Lab funded study researching human workload and it’s relation to varying levels of automation, data extraction tool was created to support this effort▪️ Design, execution, and evaluation of studies improving immersion in simulations and serious games▪️ Researching techniques to improve collaboration among soldiers, researchers, and instructors through development of community of practice and various emerging web tools▪️ Adaptability training research to improve critical thinking skills of soldiers of various roles