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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

• Directed multiple agile teams of designers and developers through development, marketing, project management, and quality assurance of a new title to be released in Q3 2024.• Recruited and onboarded 23 globally distributed team members, fostering a diverse and skilled group that has shown long-term commitment and resilience while collaboratively driving our project’s development across international borders for several years.• Architected a versatile ability system, designed for high reusability, which enables rapid creation of varied game functionalities, from simple actions like opening a door to complex new attack mechanisms.• Engineered an advanced spell system in Unreal Engine, utilizing calculus and trigonometry to precisely calculate spell trajectories and duration.• Innovated a 3D diegetic inventory system within Unreal Engine, featuring interactive zoom and item rotation, providing an immersive and intuitive user experience for game players.Technologies: C++, Python, Postgres, Unreal Engine, Blueprint, AWS (S3, ALB, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ELB)

• Took charge of an under-performing application, transforming its functionality with a 42x performance increase. Enhanced security measures, and established unit and functional testing methodologies, logging, and performance monitoring.• Implemented agile workflows and strategic prioritization methods, reducing existing defects by over 86% and effectively resolving long-standing issues.• Created optimization strategies and utilization audits that reduced annual costs by $107,000 annually for a single team.• Mentored a cross-departmental software team in transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a Kafka and Kubernetes-based system, reducing peak processing time from 36 hours to 5 hours.Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Flask, React, Terraform, Airflow, AWS (S3, Lambda, ELB, Route 53, CloudFront,CloudWatch, ELK), PyTest, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kafka, Linux

• Orchestrated the strategic onboarding of a new development team at an international branch, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with company-wide objectives.• Conducted comprehensive training for the new team on our complex internal product suite, covering key areas such as scheduling, customer support, order processing, inventory management, and billing, thereby enhancing their operational effectiveness and product knowledge.• Improved the reliability and accuracy of work order processing, significantly reducing the time required to schedule and deliver products.Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Identified and swiftly resolved a critical defect involving the duplication of data in an ETL pipeline, saving $20,000 per day.• Successfully led an initiative to optimize ETL process, reducing the duration from 9 hours to 3.5 hours, exceeding the project goal by 30%.• Achieved significant performance improvement while limiting the annual budget increase to $34,000, substantially below the anticipated $250,000.• Deployed logging and reporting functionality that reduced developer investigation time for new defects by 1.25 hours per ticket.Technologies: Python, Airflow, AWS (S3, Redshift, Lambda), Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Terraform, Snowflake, Linux, Elastic Search

*Developed cloud solutions designed to provide hosted architectures for digital evidence management systems.*Ensured that all systems and software were deployed and functioning according to CJIS compliance.*Collaborated with software developers to conduct software design and code reviews that drove continuous improvement to software stability, security, and performance.TECHNOLOGIES: Java, Maven, Spring Boot, REST API, Oracle DB, OCI, Kubernetes

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

• Resolved critical defects in the interactive map feature of our application, utilizing the Qt Location module to ensure accurate geolocation and marker functionality for first responders.• Enhanced software suite performance by upgrading to a multi-process application, utilizing Signal and Slot mechanism for efficient inter-process communication and broadcast functionality, leading to improved system responsiveness and user experience.• Optimized screen load time by implementing custom caching solutions using QCache in Qt, resulting insignificantly enhanced application performance and user experience.Technologies: C++, Python, Qt, Postgres, Linux, Elastic Search

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

• Orchestrated the strategic onboarding of a new development team at an international branch, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with company-wide objectives.• Conducted comprehensive training for the new team on our complex internal product suite, covering key areas such as scheduling, customer support, order processing, inventory management, and billing, thereby enhancing their operational effectiveness and product knowledge.• Improved the reliability and accuracy of work order processing, significantly reducing the time required to schedule and deliver products.Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL Server, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Created and implemented a provisioning tool that reduced the average call time from 12 minutes to 9 minutes for a call center of 115 technicians.• Enhanced customer service portal resulting in increased product delivery speed by 3 days.• Created a process for new fiber accounts that reduced processing time by 20%.Technologies: React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls

Associate Of Science - As, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science