RESUME

Professional Experience

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT, December 2017 to present: Designed new features for multiple software products.; Evaluated field issues and provided solutions for customers and deployment teams.; Refactoring of code to reduce solution size and improve build times.; Reduction of service deployment to reduce resources required to run our product.; Assisted with UI design for a new software product.; Lead project to improve code coverage for new products.; Primary architect of product used to distribute applications to devices.; Collaborated with the firmware team to define message protocol for communication.; Mentored senior developers with design tasks.; Supported scale testing effort and helped resolve scale related issues discovered.; Design for IdP connectivity using OpenId and OAuth.; Lead the upgrade to .NET 10

SOFTWARE TECHNICAL LEAD, May 2013 to December 2017: Responsible for the management of team members, daily Scrum, sprint planning, burn down, and other tasks to ensure a successful sprint.; Contributed to the design and implementation of a solution with multiple WCF services to allow for a more extensible product.; Helped refactor core code to allow for better and faster unit tests.; Involved in design and modifications to allow the system to process large volumes of data quickly.; Collaborated with stakeholders to accurately capture requirements to allow for the successful completion of the features within the sprints.; Performed code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to coding standards.; Documented development processes and features.; Lead the configuration, testing, and implementation of a large scale head end system interacting with millions of devices.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, January 2008 to April 2013: Part of a small team responsible for updating an enterprise application to support Oracle.; Implemented the initial AES Security solution for the data processing portion of the system.; Developed the byte level decode logic for processing meter read data for a specific meter type.; Member of the team specifically responsible for implementing the advanced AES Security solution.; Actively managed the development AMI Network at this location.; Member of the team that added support for a Cellular based network to the enterprise application.; Estimated development stories to assist in planning the features for each release.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER I, July 2004 to December 2007: Developed an ASP.NET application as part of a small team.; Integrated various 3rd party tools into the product, including log4net, NAnt, NUnit.; Wrote unit tests using NUnit for code coverage.; Setup and maintained the build environment.; Maintained and modified the SQL Server database that was used in the installation of the product (including the creation of stored procedures and user defined functions).; Performed Network Administration tasks such as: server hardware and software upgrades, troubleshooting connectivity problems, and server backups.; Created ISA Firewall Rules to route traffic to the correct server in our DMZ.; Designed a backup plan for the development PCs.; Administrated the Visual SourceSafe and Subversion repositories.; Supported clients using the product.; Practiced the Agile development process.

Languages: C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, C++, Java, CSS, Python
Frameworks: Django, Django Rest Framework, Angular, WCF, CoAP
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL
O/S: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Server, Ubuntu, Rasbian
Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, NUnit, NullSoft, TortoiseHG, TortoiseSVN, Eclipse, Git, Visio, Microsoft Visual Code

Bachelors of Science in Information Technology Management, 2004: Emphasis in Application Development and Systems Administration; University of Minnesota, Crookston

Certifications: ScrumAlliance Certified ScrumMaster; Google Professional Cloud Architect; Google Generative AI Leader