Associates of Technical Arts

2008 - 2010

South Puget Sound Community College, Tumwater, WA

While attending this school, I was an exemplary student. I was on the Dean's list many times. While attending, I also worked for the college as a Math and CIS tutor and later as an IT Specialast II.

My core areas of study were computer programming and Math.

Certified Scrum Master

2022 - 2023

The Druckman Company, Virtual

An amazing extensive course in scrum and agile training.

Machinist Skills Certification

1999 - 2000

New Market Skills Center, Tumwater, WA

This school isn't really related to being a software developer. However, it was a pretty cool experience learning to become a machinist in my senior year of highschool. While attending, we competed in a national event against many challengers across the state. In this competition we were given a blueprint of a cellphone mold. We were tasked with creating toolpaths using cad / cam software. We then had our final product measured and judged. In the end we took 12th in the nation.

Intermediate Software Engineer

2022 - 2023

LEG-TECH, Olympia, WA

• Develop and maintain web applications, services, and reporting in support of Washington State Legislature.
• Develop and deliver professional level software applications and maintenance for LEG in-house/COTS and SaaS systems.
• Developed/maintained the agency’s core admin systems and public website portfolios.
• Developed/maintained centralized systems designed to give users self-service capabilities.
Extensive Unit Test creation and practice of Test-Driven Design.
Extensive use of mock frameworks (MSTest, xUnit) to mock external dependencies.
Creating automated integration tests to ensure applications are performing correctly upon deployment.
Major Performance tuning/refactoring/and optimizations of API database queries used by many applications and reports.
Refactoring the build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps.
Creating branching strategies to support multiple users working on the same branch for different features.
Creating innovative POC’s and demos to enhance scalability and maintainability that promote self-service features.
Maintaining Azure Active Directory/B2C tenant clients, configuring authentication for client applications to support Open Id Connect.
Creating a centralized self-service Authorization system to manage all roles/permissions in an interactive database. Migrating apps to use this instead of relying on Active directory security groups.
Refactoring apps to be claims aware permissions-based authorization rather than roles-based authorization. Allowing for the user/customer to define roles for their app.
Creating extensive class libraries to let us re-use code in numerous places and consuming the code via Nuget.
Teaching/instructing new developers on best practices and object-oriented features.
Making apps cloud-ready utilizing cloud-based services.
Deploying applications to an on-premises web server farm.
Serving as scrum master and facilitating standups, sprint plannings, and retrospectives.
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Journey Level Application Developer

2018 - 2022

Washington State Department of Enterprise Services (DES), Olympia, WA

• Develop and deliver professional level software applications and maintenance for ETS in-house/COTS and SaaS systems.
• Optimize, enhance, and fix issues with existing applications and improving system performance & capacity.
• Developing and updating agency's current online web applications. Develop and implement a usability testing process to ensure new website applications meet agency stakeholder requirements.
• Develops applications using current agency supported technologies, development languages and standards for programming, security, and accessibility. Technologies including but not limited to Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, ASP.NET Core, MVC, or similar high-level languages, frameworks, and tools.
Full-stack web development including experience including work with diverse open-source database technologies, backend frameworks, and frontend frameworks.
Delegating tasks to team members.
Support and lead process improvement activities.
Lead designing the applications that will be migrated to the cloud.
Helps and equips other team members with the skills to migrate the applications to the cloud.
Support, maintain and enhance database systems and develop reports used to make determinations by agency users, management, and stakeholders on how systems should function moving forward, and if we are getting all the information from them that they need.
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy throughout the development lifecycle, including gathering requirements from users/customers, characterizing design choices/trade-offs, and developing software implementations.
Creating next generation products and services, has great development skills, a passion for quality and is excited to help build incredible, engineering solutions with stellar customer experiences.
Supporting products and services, has a strong knowledge on Cloud technologies, a working experience on manageability of Cloud resources, environments, cost, security, and compliance.
Drive and coach others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.
Write clean well thought out design and code with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, and maintainability, along with the ability to mentor others to do the same.
Active contribution to creating and maintaining of Infrastructure using optimized resources, proactive monitoring, and support.
Responsible for understanding and adapting to modern technologies, tools, methods, and processes from industry.
Influence the team for right design and technology implementation & give future Architectural direction.
Active role in planning sprint activities and releases.
Works with other ETS teams, including Business Analyst, Desktop Support, Infrastructure, and other business owners that oversee all the applications for several or more agencies throughout the State of Washington.
Follow the engineering standards set by ETS Software engineering and Data Intelligence team.
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Entry Level Application Developer

2013 - 2016

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), Tumwater, WA

• Develop web applications for WSDOT employees using the latest technologies.
• Develop dev tools and common libraries for code reuse repositories.
• FileMaker Pro rewrites to .Net web applications.
• Access Database Rewrites.
Gather Requirements for new applications.
Model Databases for new applications.
Design simple and easy to use frontend design of User applications.
Mobile web development.
Bootstrap responsive web applications.
Maintain pre-existing web applications.
Design Web Applications that support cross-platform browsers such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari using the standard ECMA script specifications.