Taylor Engel Email & Phone Number

Richardson, TX, US

Dallas, Texas, United States

GB

I am currently leading software engineers to design and develop new features for an AI-driven, voice enabled, virtual assistant. It is a critical application at PwC that supports workplace hoteling reservations, time entry and many other features.

GB

Project 2 - The goal of this project was to develop a proof of concept Angular web application that encapsulates a legacy application using the “strangler” pattern. This successfully proved our ability to have a hybrid legacy / modern web application that can slowly transition to a full rewrite of the web application using modern web frameworks. Tech.

Dallas, Texas, US

• Utilized Agile methodologies along with a streamlined devops cycle to rapidly provide high-value enhancements post go-live of an enterprise level custom web application.
• Contributed to a team tasked with developing new features one of which was a scheduling module that was valued to have over a $1,000,000 per year return on investment.
• Efficiently and effectively collaborated with many different teams such as business analysts, quality assurance, and subject matter experts to ensure the highest quality product was delivered.
• Utilized JIRA significantly to improve Agile performance during which I improved my abilities to estimate development tasks and deliver on or ahead of schedule.
• Frequently presented to the team during code reviews, lunch and learns, and post sprint retrospectives.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Designed, developed and maintained a mobile optimized web application using the latest technologies such as Angular with TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Material Design and JSON RESTful APIs.
• Used tools such as Jenkins for automated deployments and Subversion for version control.
• Extensively used UNIX based server architecture and became very familiar with UNIX commands.
• Responsible for secured file transmissions to and from multiple bank trading partners using FTPS with SSL certificates as well as SFTP and SSH key authentication.
• Gathered business requirements from subject matter experts and end users to determine robust, technical solutions to meet those requirements within Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).
• Exercised principles of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with a large, diverse development team to ensure software applications were delivered within project scope, budget and timeline.

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• Gathered requirements from end users and system administrators from various business processes and systems.
• Collaborated with internal and external consultants as well as main implementer for maintaining and implementing existing and future modules of Oracle E-Business Suite.
• Trained end users on modified business process changes and associated software changes.
• Developed reports from Oracle using an ad-hoc reporting solution from EiS Technologies as well as querying databases using SQL.

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• Responsible for making a real time copy of various data sources and types and then used Informatica for ETL and then stored data into a data warehouse to improve corporate level reporting.
• Administered and maintained a vSphere environment with more than 150 virtual servers.
• Implemented and administered a VMware Horizon View environment that contained more than 50 virtual desktops.
• Researched new and experimental technologies such as 3D printers, quad-copters, Raspberry Pi, and Arduinos for potential business advantages.

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Worked with hardware and network team. Primarily worked with PC Technicians and Network Engineers.-Configured various hardware devices such as: PCs, laptops, servers, network switches, VOIP phones, iPhones and other cell phones,-Assisted in transition from AS400 system to Oracle-Troubleshot various computer and network problems-Terminated Cat6 and fiber.