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Mississippi, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Lead game designer responsible for specifications and architectural implementation using C# for Windows as well as the Unity game engine.Responsible for game content, asset management, media content both visual and audio, and music for applications. Architectures include MVC, MVP, and WPF with MVVM.Data back ends include SQL, XML, and JSON files.As of summer 2017 began working in Virtual Reality development.Work begins on Primo Victoria, a tabletop… Show more Lead game designer responsible for specifications and architectural implementation using C# for Windows as well as the Unity game engine.Responsible for game content, asset management, media content both visual and audio, and music for applications. Architectures include MVC, MVP, and WPF with MVVM.Data back ends include SQL, XML, and JSON files.As of summer 2017 began working in Virtual Reality development.Work begins on Primo Victoria, a tabletop wargame that is being developed in both AR using IPad and Hololens as well as VR using Oculus.Experience in Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, and Blender for asset creation. Show less

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Back end engineer. Utilized .NET, C#, and Postgres SQL along with JIRA for change management, Docker, and javascript for the front end.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Manager, Software Development of the Center of Excellence division within Experis Games. Continued functioning as a software development lead alongside the team that I manage working with the Director of the Center of Excellence to establish priorities, deliverables, and quality.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

After the Microsoft program at Experis tripled in size, it was time to move up to a new role as Technical Lead supporting all of the company's three locations and game studios. As Technical Lead, was responsible for technology direction and decisions, standards, practices, and helping senior leadership ensure that projects were being completed successfully and met on their goal finish dates.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Lead a software development team with a final headcount of eleven engineers in Tempe that worked alongside Microsoft's SQ Tech Team with XBox Studios to provide testing software for various video game titles. Additionally was responsible for managing three other developers that reported to other Microsoft leads on different teams. The Tempe software development team was an extension of the Microsoft SQ Tech team and performed as a remote team for Microsoft performing duties as the Microsoft… Show more Lead a software development team with a final headcount of eleven engineers in Tempe that worked alongside Microsoft's SQ Tech Team with XBox Studios to provide testing software for various video game titles. Additionally was responsible for managing three other developers that reported to other Microsoft leads on different teams. The Tempe software development team was an extension of the Microsoft SQ Tech team and performed as a remote team for Microsoft performing duties as the Microsoft SQ Tech team and additionally providing an in-house contact for the Tempe playtesting teams.Primary toolsets utilized were C# with .NET CORE 3.1, WPF for the front end, and Azure Devops for task tracking. Additionally utilized C++ in video game engines to write hooks for the various testing tools to function properly. Worked in custom game engines, Unity game engines, and Unreal game engines.Responsible for crafting user stories and tasks for the team as well as manage communication between the team and the game development teams worked with to produce the user stories and provide valuable functionality.Oversaw the bridge between the Tempe playtesting teams and the Microsoft technical teams to help keep communication between the two entities. Lead duties included mentoring junior developers, helping to set career building goals, and manage the personnel on the team in addition to collaborating with the team and with Microsoft team members to provide high quality code that adheres to Microsoft's coding standards.Implemented an agile scrum process and created grooming meetings, sprint planning meetings, retrospectives, and any post mortems that were required. Spent roughly 20% of my time writing code, 30% of my time pair programming and performing code reviews and 50% of my time performing management responsibilities from both personnel side and Project Management side curating the backlog and getting User Stories and Bugs in state where the developers could work Show less

Louisville, Kentucky

Lead software engineer reporting to software manager responsible for the Enterprise area of QSR's application. Areas included central database application (MySQL and C# web api), web portals (knockout, vue js, c# web api) and microservices (c# services) all hosted over AWS.Web Services were done in .NET CORE 2.1 and 3.1. Applications utilized Docker and Kubernetes.Additional projects included assisting with SQL database tuning and administration as well as data… Show more Lead software engineer reporting to software manager responsible for the Enterprise area of QSR's application. Areas included central database application (MySQL and C# web api), web portals (knockout, vue js, c# web api) and microservices (c# services) all hosted over AWS.Web Services were done in .NET CORE 2.1 and 3.1. Applications utilized Docker and Kubernetes.Additional projects included assisting with SQL database tuning and administration as well as data analytics using Postgress databases (Redshift), MySQL databases to pull into R Studio packages. AWS architecture and environment to include SQS, SNS, Dynamo DB utilization within web api projects.Minor work in javascript, knockout, and VueJS. Environment was full agile with two week sprints, a QA team, a BA team, and a scrum master. Show less

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Worked in the Innovation Labs team creating proof of concept software for a wide range of business challenges utilizing Machine Learning, broader AI and Data Science solutions, as well as traditional developmental solutions using C#, Python, R, Unity, WPF, .NET CORE, and Microservice architecture. Managed TFS projects and build pipelines in a devops capacity. Utilized WiX installers to create desktop application installation packages.

Project Team Lead - Slot3D.Architected new .NET CORE application that replaces existing application. Utilizes .NET CORE, Windows Universal, and Unity 3D as the rendering engine for the warehouse. SQL Server on the backend with the ablity to plug in new data components with minimal coding.Performed Business Analyst duties to take ideas and needs from product managers and transform them into technical specifications for developers to use.Managed hour estimates and team… Show more Project Team Lead - Slot3D.Architected new .NET CORE application that replaces existing application. Utilizes .NET CORE, Windows Universal, and Unity 3D as the rendering engine for the warehouse. SQL Server on the backend with the ablity to plug in new data components with minimal coding.Performed Business Analyst duties to take ideas and needs from product managers and transform them into technical specifications for developers to use.Managed hour estimates and team members to facilitate meeting of deadlines and expectations. Managed local team consisting of junior, intermediate, and senior developers and QA staff. Managed additional near-shore developers as needed to complete development tasks. Mentored new team members and junior team members in the system as well as developmental practices in general.Maintained coding standards and facilitated team code-reviews to improve code quality. Performed Development-Operations duties to include supporting older Installation packages of our software via Visual Studio 2010 Installer Projects. Wrote new Installation Software using WiX.Installed, setup, and maintained an Amazon Web Services portal to allow our software to be accessed via the web, and architected solutions to allow business-tier services to be processed via cloud computing using Amazon Web Services.Executed project management duties that required information gathering from customers, and turned those requirements into something that the software development team could execute against. Architected solutions based upon business requirements and oversaw team progress on the tasks created. Show less

Louisville, Kentucky

Senior Software Engineer. Working with robotic arms that pick up and inject fluids into 3d printed tissues which are used in the medical field for various tests. The software behind this project was primarily C# using .NET 4.5 and wrapped around a C++ driver package. The project entailed bringing the software up to release and utilized threading, asynch objects, tasks, WPF, and some C++. Primary UI architecture was a broken form of MVVM which was cleaned up to be true… Show more Senior Software Engineer. Working with robotic arms that pick up and inject fluids into 3d printed tissues which are used in the medical field for various tests. The software behind this project was primarily C# using .NET 4.5 and wrapped around a C++ driver package. The project entailed bringing the software up to release and utilized threading, asynch objects, tasks, WPF, and some C++. Primary UI architecture was a broken form of MVVM which was cleaned up to be true MVVM.Required re architecture of internal objects to better utilize inheritance and base classes to minimize duplicated code and potential errors that come with duplicating code. Show less

Louisville Ky

Responsibilities included development and deployment of WCF Service to handle EDI billing from C# / Delphi application, using SQL Server data store.Develop, maintain, and debug desktop C# application, WCF Services, SQL Server Stored Procedures, Performance tuning.Mentored junior developers on good developmental practices and helped direct development projects to their successful completion.

Develop, maintain, and debug ASP.NET application responsible for Social Security program. Develop, maintain, and debug C# Desktop Tax Refund application, as well as develop SQL Reporting using SSRS.Mentored junior developers and contract developers on code quality and successful finish of product.

ASP.NET development for web stores front ends and database back ends.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Developed and maintained EDI systems using C# and Visual Basic 6.0, along with SQL server on the back end. Developed and maintained for front end user interface for application that accessed EDI systems.

Louisville Ky

Finished technical course training for ATA before they began to move away from the technical field and into medical coding.

• Programmed in Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, ASP, ASP.NET to develop a documentation application that kept track of SQL Server 7, 2000, and Progress Databases.• Secondary database administrator for SQL 7 and 2000 databases that supported the reporting framework for NHS.

Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, SQL server, MS Access, C# development of various systems to include the State of Ohio WIC systems.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Microsoft trainer presenting material to students to pass Microsoft exams. Students were both professional developers as well as new-to-the-industry.Generated after-hours program to work with students to help develop crucial skills that would help them in the field by using real examples and developing real software packages.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Self employed contract developer using Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL server for short term projects to help with existing projects from various companies through TEK SYSTEMS, the most noticeable being a short contract with General Electric to update a defunct VB DLL that managed their inventory systems.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Managed Louisville area warehouse and projects related to Telecommunications expansion and maintenance locally. Wrote inventory system used in the warehouse to maintain equipment counts as well as to hold record detail on hardware cabinets to cross reference customer records with.

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Held position when deployed to Korea as S-2 operations clerk. Learned communications hardware and software procedures. While on Ft Knox deployed record-keeping software using VB 4.0 and MS Access before porting over to an Oracle People Soft system.Information Management Office - Ft Knox 1/16 cavalry - responsible for computer systems of regiment.

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Wrote various small monolithic applications learning BASIC and C++. Created several games that were ported to IBM 386 and 486 machines that were sold over BBS system.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelors of Science in Management.

Not Completed, Computer Science

Attending IUS for Bachelors Degree in Computer Science.

Associates Degree, Computer Science, 4.00

Associates Degree in Computer Science, graduated with a 4.0 GPA Suma Cum Laude.

Mcsd, Mcdba, Mct

High School Diploma