Education

I have a Bachelor in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University, and a Certificate from Mchenry County College while participating in their Dual Enrollment Program in High School.

During my time at SIU I was President of the Association for Computing Machinery student chapter, led new students as a Salukli Peer Mentor and a New Student Orientation Leader.

I also organized and ran SalukiLAN, an annual charity LAN party that raised money for the Childs Play Charity, hosting over 500 people.

Southern Illinois University

Bachelors of Computer Science

MinorsAviation Flight, Electrical Engineering

Courses:Web Applications, Databases, Linux and C, Data Structures, CS Ethics

Dates:08/2012 - 12/2015

Mchenry County College

Certificate of Internet Programming

Courses:2D Animation, C++, Game Programming

Dates:08/2008 - 08/2010

Employment

Spot

Lead Software Engineer

04/2022 - 08/2022

Led the integration departments transition to an event-driven architecture, and rapidly prototyped solutions.
Implemented a forward chaining rule engine to streamline and optimize multiple disparate rulesets.
Collaborated on a Tech Council of the most senior engineers to shape the company's technology strategy and roadmap.

Olive AI

Lead Software Engineer

06/2020 - 04/2022

Hired, mentored and coached a team of software developers. Led daily scrum activities.
Collaborated closely with healthcare partners to rapidly architect time-sensitive process automations.
Utilized Node, AWS, and a suite of libraries such as OpenCV and Puppeteer to develop automated processes for my customers.
Created automation to reduce COVID testing time by 86% and automated COVID Vaccine scheduling and analysis
Automated supply chain purchase order dispatching and confirmations, and scheduling on legacy systems

Innovate Softworks

Software Engineer

08/2018 - 06/2020

Partnered with industrial and health care clients to develop solutions for onsite, locally managed software.
Worked with legacy applications, refactoring and updating for modern Windows APIs.
Built full stack applications in C#, Node, React and Electron to generate and download firmware for industrial machines.
Worked with a fully distributed, agile team of contracted junior developers.

Liberty Mutual

Software Engineer II

01/2016 - 08/2018

Developed innovative insurance products in new markets such as Nest Protect, RightTrack, HighwayHero, Auto OEM Telematics Programs.
Created or maintained numerous internal and public REST and SOAP APIs in Node, Java, and MongoDB, focusing on reducing quoting time and increasing user retention.
Lead a small team to create an API automating a search for existing discounts previously available to a customer.
Maintained and migrated C# and Java legacy on-premises services to Cloud Foundry, AWS.