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Texas, United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Worked as the Associate Team Lead of an agile 8-member room, responsible for planning and estimating software releases, reviewing backlogs of defects for future releases, and mentoring team members.
• Wrote initial prototype for and spearheaded rewrite of a VSTO COM Outlook Add-In to the new MS Office JavaScript Add-In framework.
• Built OpenAPI specifications for existing REST APIs and designed API contract-based tests utilizing these specifications that were then integrated into CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab.
• Created a way to manage MIME test sets and support edge case testing and stress testing email systems.
• Produced behavior-driven development (BDD) tests to ensure high-quality software improvements
• Ensured embedded operating systems contained the latest available software updates to provide stability and security for customers.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Gathered requirements, designed, and developed a license management web application to allow customers to generate, retrieve, and view their licenses and the company to track the licenses.
• Wrote an application licensing API limiting the company’s software applications to use only on systems having valid licenses.
• Designed and developed a web application for source code release, product builds and launching of automated tests.
• Created a web application to baseline products in Subversion and automate packaging which increased efficiency and minimized human error when establishing product baselines as well as allowing developers to easily.
• Developed a knowledge base web application used to capture common product information and share it with customers in a searchable way and in a central location.
• Collaborated to generate a client-server application written in Java having a Swing user interface and utilizing JMS and JNDI to monitor and interdict semiconductor manufacturing machines.

• Served as Configuration Administrator for a software tool-development group of over 20 engineers, configuring over 50 software products.
• Developed and implemented an online tool change request system leveraging CMS on VAX VMS which was used internally by the tool-development group for change tracking and change control which improved the quality of the.
• Assisted in the development of a Software Engineering Environment written in C, Ada, and Fortran which was used by the Operational Flight Program (OFP) programmers for debugging and tracking changes to OFPs.
• Allowed developers to white-box test units of their code without having to use flight hardware by maintaining and enhancing the Automatic Unit Test Methodology product.
• Allowed for system-level black-box testing by working as a member of a team to develop an Avionics Computing Environment written in C and Fortran which provides an F-16 software emulation used for testing and debugging.