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United States

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Advocates agile principles, emphasizes test-driven development (TDD), and drives code refactoring across greenfield and legacy systems. Leads demos, story writing, and daily stand-ups.- Developing a new booking flow for a major moving company using React and Kotlin, integrating with legacy systems, and employing A/B testing to improve sales. Hosted in Azure with Docker and Kubernetes for CI/CD. Works closely with designers to create responsive web apps using Figma. The booking flow currently serves 10% of customers and expects to launch to 100% in 2024. - Served as tech lead in creating an Android Native white-label mobile app for a major food delivery company using Jetpack Compose and Kotlin. Merchants can request an app themed with their brand colors, typography, and logos. Integrated with 3rd party rewards provider SpendGo so customers can get credit for purchases at a merchant. Launching with 3 merchants and expanding to over 100 by EOY 2024.- Collaborated with the client to meet tight deadlines and deliver the white-label mobile application in 3 months. Emphasized agile principles to improve client development and mentored team members in difficult situations. Kept the team focused on delivering a final product.- Built a chatbot for Focused Labs using GPT 3.5, LangChain, Llama Index, and React. Embedded information about the company to an LLM, used prompt engineering, and sanitized the data to improve responses from the LLM.- Engineered a back-office tool for a major auto manufacturer, reduced data entry by 90%, improved product time-to-market, and optimized pipeline run times by 25%. Utilized Kotlin, Vue, and Java Spring.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

- Rapidly progressed to Tech Lead role within 6 months. Fostered team collaboration and mentorship, and ensured client satisfaction through effective communication with Delivery Lead and Product Owner. Adeptly managed project priorities and resources.- Championed agile methodologies such as TDD, continuous delivery, vertical slices, and pair programming. Served as a coach to promote TDD adoption and conducted peer training sessions.- Facilitated collaboration across multiple practices to secure a $1.6M SOW for a data science project at a mining company. Aided in estimating work, knowledge transfer, and staffing.- Orchestrated a multi-disciplinary effort to develop a Ptyhon-based app for mineral tonnage estimation of ore from multiple mines for the mining company. Significantly reduced processing time from a week in Excel to under 20 minutes using Python, pytest, SQL, and pandas. Due to client's request, the app was rewritten in C# using Azure functions.- Led a team in devising an automated test harness for routers and modems at a major telecom company. Dramatically decreased testing duration from weeks to less than an hour, with UI development in React/Node.js, testing scripts in Python, and scheduling/conflict management via Redis queue.- Implemented CI/CD pipeline in GitLab for frontend, backend, database, and rack server deployments. Ensured consistent server builds using Ansible, resulting in predictable deployment outcomes.- Presented the test harness’ unique architecture, challenges, and wins to 50+ developers within WWT.

Bushnell, Fl, Us

- Developed WordPress websites using Divi and other tools, customized CSS and PHP for enhanced functionality.- Oversaw end-to-end management of multiple web projects, from design to delivery.

Co-produced "Podcasts with Park Rangers," leading as primary writer/researcher.- Engineered a social media campaign propelling the podcast to over 3500 downloads/month within 7 months, achieving top 10% status.- Implemented an SEO strategy, securing front-page rankings on Google for key search terms like “Park Ranger Podcast” and “National Park Podcast”.- Organized and planned over 30 interviews with Park Rangers across various Western US National Park units in a 6-month timeframe.

Rapid City, South Dakota, Us

- Supported transition of 20+ .NET applications from SourceGas to Black Hills Energy systems during acquisition, crafted training materials for programmers.- Led testing of migrated applications on new servers at Black Hills Energy.

Golden, Co, Us

- Spearheaded the development of a timekeeping system for 500 internal users using C#.net, MVC, and Web API. Met government regulations for positive time reporting.- Conducted team meetings regarding the timekeeping system, reporting project progress to C-suite.- Collaborated with business owners to define requirements and system logic. - Facilitated business reorganization across three states, identified data impacts, wrote ETL scripts, and led testing efforts.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

- Managed and improved finance applications at CoBank and affiliates, primarily using jQuery, CSS, HTML, C#, and .NET MVC.- Created an integration between internal Access Request System and ServiceNow. Automated ticket request submission via a REST API saving the Security team 40 hours monthly.- Led technical interviews for application development roles.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

- Contributed to team efforts in developing and maintaining Charles Schwab's website network with ASP Classic, ASP.NET, .NET MVC, JavaScript, and jQuery.- Designed and implemented a Roth IRA calculator, used by 1000+ certified representatives to assist customers with traditional to Roth IRA rollovers.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

- Collaborated on Similac.com with a 3-person team, swiftly implementing over 70 Ajax-enabled web pages using ASP.NET, C#, and Oracle within a month. - Led development for SimilacSimplePac.com, featured in People magazine, alongside a 2-person team.