SKILLS

JavaScript (React, Node, Highcharts, D3), C#/.Net, Ruby/Rails, Java, Bootstrap, CSS, AJAX, HTML4.01/5, XML/XSLT, familiar with Angular, JSP, LESS

OO Analysis and Design, Cross-browser UI design, Internationalization, Agile/Scrum development, Front/Back-End Unit Testing, Requirements Analysis, Code Reviews

Visual Studio, Git, Mercurial, Intellij IDEA, Ruby Mine, Photoshop, Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server, Linux, Mac, and Windows, Familiar with MongoDB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Front-End Engineer – July 2013 to November 2014, February 2016 – Present

Advisory Board Company – Austin, Texas

Developed the front and back-end of tools for various parts of the company’s Big Data acquisition process. These allowed the services teams to evolve and validate the data models that would be used over time as individual data sources improved their methods. Additionally, these tools managed the procurement of data and correction of errors that could occur in the process. These were built with a variety of architectures and required extensive use of JavaScript, C#/.Net, React, Node, Angular, and SQL.

Developed new content for the flagship product Crimson Continuum of Care, a tool for tracking/assessing physician performance and habits and in turn minimizing patient’s length of stay in the hospital. This has the effect of reducing costs on all sides, benefiting the health of the patient, and providing a way for physicians to evaluate their performance.

  • Developed several internal tools that saved days for the implementation team during on-boarding, prevented errors, and provided insight into the progress.
  • Maintained and developed new features and analytic views while upgrading the product to work on a cross product internal JavaScript library based on Backbone, JQuery, and Handlebars.
  • Contributed to the FEE talent pool and culture by presenting at an internal FEE boot camp series and organizing and hosting the annual FEE hackathon.

UI Developer/Software Engineer – November 2014 to December 2015

Quantified Communications – Austin, Texas

UI Developer for the internal analytics and reporting tool suite. This was a web based application that captured, analyzed, and reported analytics on vocal metrics, sentiment, and other communication analytics on spoken and written public speeches and other types of communication. This was used to drive the coaches’ development plan with the current clients and provided material for attracting new clients. Development required expansive use of Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and PostgreSQL in a fast paced Agile development environment.

  • Integrated the application with Praat, a vocal analysis tool for streamlining and automation of the process.
  • Completed an internal tool for analysts to create highly configurable templates for reporting client results in order to scale client delivery capacity and remove potential error.
  • Created a library of visual components using Highcharts, D3, and jQuery for reporting results.
  • Implemented initial version of a customizable interactive client dashboard.

Software Engineer II – September 2009 to May 2013

GXS / Inovis – Austin, Texas

Software developer for Active Intelligence, a SaaS-based enterprise web application that provides visibility, validation, analytics/reporting services for high volume B2B transactions. This product was developed in Java and used XML/XSLT for integration the server to the user interface.

  • Completed a project to modify an existing user-interface with only IE6/7 support to add cross-browser compatibility using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
  • Replaced Flex based several charting components that provided visibility on aggregated OLAP data with an HTML5/JavaScript equivalent (HighCharts). This also included adding user-interactions with the content and increasing integration with the client-side UI.
  • Analyzed memory and performance statistics and implemented optimizations for several components UI components.
  • Implemented integration and single-sign-on support between Active Intelligence and other applications within the company’s software suite.
  • Provided on-call support for production and pre-production environment issues.

Software Engineer Intern – February 2008 to October 2008

Elbit Systems of America – Fort Worth, Texas

Worked with another intern in development, documentation, and implementation of an internal XML Data Extraction/Conversion tool based on Perl.

  • Gathered requirements and developed internal webpages for various projects using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Maintained an internal request tracking system.
  • Assisted with testing helicopter heads-up-display hardware.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Computer Engineering – May 2009

The University of Texas at Arlington - Arlington, Texas

  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude
  • Awarded the UTA Outstanding Freshman Scholarship and the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation Scholarship

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I enjoy playing a role in the local art community by volunteering for various art exhibitions and events including the East Austin Studio Tour. I love to create works of my own across a very wide variety of mediums and techniques including drawing, painting, and photography.