Resume

Summary

I am an experienced Kansas City-based software engineer with large company experience, a diverse technology background, well developed analytical and problem solving abilities, great attention to detail and time restrictions, and proven capability of working well independently, as a member of a team, and as a leader.

Some of my areas of expertise include JavaScript, Node, React, Ruby on Rails, C++, Internationalization and Localization, embedded C programming, Git, and Agile methodologies.

Experience


Vice President – Morgan Stanley (11/2022 – Present) Moved to Morgan Stanley following an acquisition of blooom's team and technologies.	Morgan Stanley
Technical Team Lead – blooom (04/2016 – 11/2022) Automation architect for retirement account management (Puppeteer, Chrome APIs, Node) Front-end fin-tech app contributions with user-focused, configurable features (Node, React, Redux) API and backend buildout (Ruby-on-Rails, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Postman) One of the first engineers, full-stack (above + Webpack, Gulp, CI, Karma, GitHub, Heroku, AWS)	blooom
Software Engineer – Enterprise Software Client Architecture, Lexmark International (09/2014 – 04/2016) Developed core components of Perceptive Evolution Platform (JavaScript, Node, Sinon, Karma, Selenium) Created framework for handling web application contexts (JavaScript, Node) Designed system for web application to native operating system communication (JavaScript, Node.js, C#) Two patents awarded and one additional application (JavaScript, C#, Java – Android) Software Engineer – Enterprise Software Globalization, Lexmark International (05/2011 – 2014) Internationalization and localization of enterprise content management client/server/database software (C++, JavaScript) Helped lead a company-wide Internationalization effort as part of the Globalization team (C++, Java, C#) Managed software translation effort for 10-language Internationalized release (Perl) Experience with the Internationalization Components for Unicode (ICU) and jQuery Globalize libraries	Lexmark
Software Engineer – Portable Aviation, Garmin International (02/2009 – 05/2011) Implemented flight data logging, flight plan importation/exportation, checklists (C) GUI design/development, including user-map interaction, drag-able lists, and default page layouts (C) Took part in testing and review of multiple products from outside my group	Garmin
Software Developer – Civil Engineering Department, SDSMT (03/2008 – 03/2009) Translated a deep foundation design simulation algorithm into C++ code Developed a GUI to incorporate that algorithm, data input, and results presentation (C++) Organized multi-company intern events Teaching Assistant – Computer Science Department, SDSMT (09/2008 – 12/2008) Taught two sections of a freshman-level computer science lab (C++)	SDSMT
Software Engineering Intern – Portable Aviation, Garmin International (05/2008 – 08/2008) Created pages for testing LCD quality (C) Enhanced image viewer to allow for airport diagram scaling and day/night color transformations (C)	Garmin
Software Engineering Intern – EchoStar (DISH Network) (05/2007 – 08/2007) Developed client/server/on-screen UI for log file transfers from a set-top box to a remote server (C)	EchoStar

Patents

Patent Applications

System and Methods for Retrieving Content Based on Context in a Mobile Environment

Education

B.S. Computer Science – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (2004 – 2008)

Magna Cum Laude
Created a visual programming environment that allows children to easily develop robot software (Team Project, C++)
Designed/developed a functional Linux web browser (Team Project, Java)
Association for Computing Machinery Competitions