Software Developer I

August 2021 - Present

Forms Development Team

• Implemented a new insurance product from beginning to launch in five months using C#/.NET and Microsoft's SQL Server.
• Worked in the engine that generated the correct forms for a policy and dynamically populated policyholder information
• Used Azure Dev Ops to create and provide feedback on pull requests, measure sprint progress, and manage Features and Tasks.
• Collaborated across a 17 person development team and the business analysts to overcome obstacles and define clear requirements.
• Wrote readable, performant code and tests to minimize inefficiencies, errors, and bugs at product launch.
• Used Timeular to track the time spent on a task. This enabled focus on the scope of the feature and increased productivity.

Junior Software Developer

Jan 2021 - June 2021

Intensive full-time 6-month software development boot camp focusing on full stack (Python/Django) development fundamentals and problem solving.

FRONT-END PROJECTS

Serve Still More

• Tools Used: React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, ESLint, Cloudinary, Figma, and Axios
• A call center management application for churches
• Solo Front-End Capstone project culmination of first three months of NSS program
• Reached MVP in 10 days
• A dashboard for callers and a dashboard for managers
• Users are able to create, edit, and delete information for members of their church
• Every instance of contacting a member is recorded and a call transaction history is recorded
• Simplified UX/UI for users to see who has been called and keeping relevant information in the forefront

Nutshell

• Tools Used: React, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Git, ESLint, dbdiagram, JSON-Server
• Single page social network application complete with News, Events, Chat, and To Do list
• Group project, responsible for Events portion As Team Lead, I was responsible for project management via GitHub, whiteboarding with teammates, and presenting the application to the class
• Learned CRUD functions of persistent storage, more techniques using Chrome DevTools, and how to create ERDs

Sprinkles of Joy

• Tools Used: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Github, ESLint, dbdiagram, JSON-Server
• Single page application for users to browse and purchase bakery products, then track their orders
• Group project, primarily responsible for creating and viewing reviews on products
• Gained experience troubleshooting and building on an inherited code base

BACK-END PROJECTS

Priority

• Tools Used: Python, Django, Chart.js,
• A full stack web application built on Django/React frameworks that encourages users to stay focused on their most important goal
• Final Capstone project. An individual goal to gain additional experience in using React components from npm packages to quickly build elements that looked professional on the final product
• Gained additional experience with Django ORM's aggregate and annotate methods to compute data from the database and save the processing of data on the client side

Rare

• Tools Used: Python, Django, SQL, DB Browser
• Social media application for sharing posts and commenting/liking/reacting to content.
• Group project, took the lead on handling users including creating/promoting/demoting/editing and permissions to resources
• Collaborated with the team on estimating the length of issue tickets, creating a wireframe, and handling the migration/database structure across 3 machines that did not share the same database.

Bangazon

• Tools Used: Python, Django, SQL, DB Browser
• HR and Commerce application for hypothetical company “Bangazon”
• Individual project, completed 19 issue tickets over a week long sprint. Prioritized test and bug issue tickets
• Built multiple iterations using Django’s ORM, Try/Except blocks, and HTML server side to display report data

Mechanical Engineer

May 2020 - Nov 2020

Automated equipment manufacturer providing customers with solutions to their industrial problems. Awarded for their efforts to maintain efficient and lean manufacturing practices.

 
• Primary contact of the customer to ensure equipment would meet the requirements
• Designed the details of the system using AutoCAD and SolidWorks, created drawings, submitted parts to be ordered
• Oversaw the construction of the equipment. If engineering was needed on site, would travel with the equipment to its point of installation

Process Engineer

Oct 2019 - May 2020

A stabilizer bar manufacturing facility. The largest supplier of this suspension component in the world, on the forefront of improving the longevity of their suspension assembly.

 
• Understood the need and expectations of customer's engineers
• Managed prototype product schedules
• Creating new programs in robot controllers and modified equipment so that new products could be processed
• Designed gauges for new stabilizer bar products that tested the position of the components that were added to the stabilizer bar during assembly

Process Engineer

June 2017 - Oct 2019

Airbag inflator manufacturing facility with cutting edge vision system and manufacturing automation technology.

 
• One of three mechanical designers on the internal automation team. Implemented a six-hundred thousand dollar automation project with a two year payback period
• Installed chutes and automated the disposal of bad products across multiple manufacturing lines. Eliminated the need for operators to go inside the robot cell and manually open grippers which saved hours of downtime over a week
• Travelled to the Daicel Global Kaizen Competition in Japan to present automation projects to manufacturing sites across the globe