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Denver, CO, US

Dallas, TX, US

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US

• Managed two Scrum teams of between 3 and 5 developers as part of an eight-team group servicing 25,000 clients using the Time and Attendance module that has over 1 million daily active users.
• Managed and mentored six individual contributors who became team leads.
• Began a Clean Code program, reading through Clean Code by Robert C. Martin in a group setting to discuss code quality and improve the code base. This program is now department-wide and is offered to all developers..
• Architected changes to Daylight Saving Time (DST) process and code to drastically reduce pay calculation issues caused by clients entering and exiting DST. This led to a reduction of DST-based issues for tens of.
• Designed and led development of effective dating employee pay rules in a large pay calculation engine.
• Created an automated process for calculating pay and sending results to payroll when trigger conditions are met such as payroll creation or timecard approval. This process is the backbone of the automated payroll.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US

• Architected and led a project to rewrite Work Zone Rules (time-based pay) functionality for Time and Attendance software used by thousands of clients. Refactored thousands of lines of legacy procedural code into.
• Created an approval system used by employees to request alterations to their timecards called Punch Change Requests which has around 1 million daily active users.

Austin, Texas, US

• Participated in maintenance and improvement of e-discovery SAAS solution.
• Extended the ingest pipeline to convert optical character recognition (OCR) images containing text to searchable text in PDF format.
• Created a parser to convert Westlaw style syntax to Elasticsearch query domain-specific language (DSL).

Dallas, Texas, US

• Executed a complete rewrite of a Microsoft Business Intelligence solution for a large bank.
• Assisted in the creation of a new line of business applications for a large local company.
• Analyzed a local company’s existing home-built application and assisted in selecting a replacement from a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor.
• Responsible for guiding more junior consultants, including managing tasks/schedules, reviewing work, and assisting with career growth goals.

Houston, TX, US

• Responsible for the functionality of TV Recording search and Program Guide search, including implementing new functionality, optimizing performance, updating to new versions, and creating the user interface.
• Improved search speed by as much as 10x by storing data in larger batches and creating a fast, single-pass query-accurate fragmentor for Lucene.NET.
• Created a new user interface (UI) and backend for SDI (Serial Digital Interface) playback with a playlist.
• Rewrote recording functionality to allow software to pick an arbitrary input on a TV tuner card, based on which programs the user wanted to record.
• Responsible for college recruitment of software engineers.

Washington, DC, US