Objective
To be an integral member of a software development team trusted to deliver a solution that solves problems.
Skills
- Problem Solving
- Agile Development
- User Interaction
- Spring Boot
- Groovy
- Grails
- Git
- jQuery
- Javascript
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- RegEx
- JIRA
- Rails
- Ruby
- Translating business speak
Experience
CardFree
Senior Software Developer
December 2016 - Present
- Reduced average response time from 250ms to 25ms
- Supported application migration to AWS
- Decoupled services by reducing direct service-to-service communication leveraging SNS and SQS for indirect communication
ECS Team at OppenheimerFunds
Senior User Interaction Development Contractor
May 2015 - November 2016
- Incrementally migrated site from old to new technology leveraging F5 to manage internal redirects
- Developed proxy for local environments to mimic F5 rules
- Implemented modular, scalable Javascript framework that separates underlying libraries, execution control, and decouples HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Defined and implemented analytics framework to measure user engagement
Janus Capital Group
Senior Java Developer
March 2012 - May 2015
- Served as Project Lead and Scrum Master; lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and daily standup meetings
- Lead meeting to analyze business requirements and create developer stories
- Co-architected a software solution that empowered business partners to change website through CMS
- Mentored less experienced developers in CSS, javascript, groovy, and Grails; ensured developers were properly challenged
Education
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Jeffrey S. Raikes School
August 2006 - May 2010
- Major: Computer Science
- Minor: Business Administration