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Professional Experience

  • Architect new .NET Web API 2 project for new API endpoints following modern conventions
  • Full-stack React/JSMVC, .NET Framework Web API 2, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
  • Communicate directly with critical-account customers to ensure user journeys are met
  • Travel to India to train and bond with new, global teams
  • Train developers on our technologies and products
  • Lead team implementing new features
  • Lead SPIKEs and recommendations for migrating WCF API to ASP.NET API
  • Improve front-end automated testing architecture using Test Cafe
  • Fix project READMEs to be up-to-date and include improved workflow instructions
  • Advocating investing in technical debt toward cloud solutions
  • Implement new features for Server product
  • Provide developer feedback throughout the agile process
  • Ported a Windows Presentation Foundation voice transcription app to Xamarin.Forms for macOS
  • Created Google Chrome browser extension for facilitating voice transcription and injection into web pages using React and Redux
  • Deploy pre-existing C# libraries as an ASP.NET web API via Docker containers for altering user settings
  • Utilize Microsoft Azure Functions, Custom Vision, and Queues to make an application suite backend which would be used to detect and report available parking spots in parking lots; frontend apps written using C# Forms and Angular
  • Implement React test suites across multiple projects (Jest, react-testing-library)
  • Rewrote tax lookup and payment AngularJS application using Angular9
  • Created web applications that could track and report real-time location of public transit vehicles in Clarion, PA
  • Published iOS and Android application wrappers of a web application for transit passengers to view the location of transit buses and get ETAs for the bus to any given pickup location
  • Web Server written using Java and mySQL
  • Frontend written using JavaScript with HTML
  • Won awards for best project in college Honors Program
  • Used by Clarion Area Transit Authority until I decided to end the company and software
  • Implemented new patterns and technologies for a 15 year old software platform
  • Introduced Hibernate ORM framework, replacing custom in-house solution
  • Supported transition to Kotlin as a supplement for still needing to use Java 6
  • Succeeded in solo and team projects
  • Mentored and managed interns and intern projects
  • Employed after a six month internship

Education and Certifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Honors; Clarion University of Pennsylvania
  • Microsoft Cerfified Solutions Developer: App Builder

Community Involvement

  • Co-Organizer of Pittsburgh .NET User Group
  • Speaker at Microsoft Global Azure Bootcamp
  • Xamarin.Forms Open Source contributor

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