Cody

Product Development Contributions:

• System Architecture Design and Implementation
• Software Architecture Design and Implementation
• Shaping core product direction and design through stakeholder conversation and big-picture planning (SDLC).
• Developing new features/bug fixes and contributing pull requests.

Languages:
Javascript (NodeJS), Laravel 8, PHP, Go, and other industry-standard systems and methodologies.

Team Lead:

• Provides mentorship and direction to Junior developers and overseas development teams.
• Peer programming sessions and pull request reviews.
• Project Management Utilizing Jira.
• Issues / Bugs / Features / Enhancements.
• Bug assignments, workload planning, and feature release timeliness.

Held various positions over time period working on a variety teams.

Responsibilities:
Management and maintenance of multiple critical university business applications, system scripting and automation as well as application programming.

Software Management & System Maintenance:

• CS Gold Card Services (Door and Charge Card System)
• WinPrism POS System (API Integration Troubleshooting)
• WebFocus (Java/Jetty)
• Oracle Primavera (Java/WebLogic)
• Footprints (Legacy PHP Application)
• Perceptive Content (ImageNow, RabbitMQ/Java)
• Confluence Self-Hosted (Java)

Core Contributions:

• Developed lab and power management software for industrial microscopes powered by PHP and CodeIgniter and NodeJS.
• Developed custom software solutions to aid in multiple project migrations as well as custom automation solutions using NodeJS/PHP/Java and a variety of other languages and techniques.
• Migrated from legacy operating systems such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, RedHat 5 and 6 to supported Operating Systems.
• Worked with multiple vendors to organize and implement solutions and help facilitate their integrations.

Worked with small businesses to analyze, improve, and repair their existing infrastructure (servers and software), in addition to providing web hosting services, custom website services, software development services, and training to small businesses. Most of the business was focused on producing minimal viable products for companies launching into the Software as a Service space.

Core Contributions:
Client Acquisition
■ Acquired new clients/contracts and maintained relationships throughout the software design process.
■ Provided project planning and estimates after analyzing business processes and goals.

Leadership
■ Provided mentorship and direction to sub-contractors and employees.
■ Implemented a training process for clients to onboard their own software maintenance teams once the MVPs were launched.

Project Management
■ Led clients through the entire SDLC to ensure product completeness and expectation management.
■ Utilized Jira.
■ Issues / Bugs/ Features/ Enhancements.
■ Bug assignments and workload planning and feature release timeliness.
■ Project and Budget Estimation.

SaaS Product Design and Minimal-Viable-Product Creation (product examples)
■ Created a SaaS product for orchestrating advertising campaigns powered by a NodeJS email platform with multiple distributed workers capable of delivering high volumes of emails reliably and quickly. The product included reporting and engagement data.
■ Created a SaaS backup product for backing up hundreds of websites built on NodeJS and CodeIgniter.
■ Developed applications for billing Medicaid claims, and ordering Dental Implants using Codeigniter, Selenium Automation, and Java.
■ Virtual Machine Backup and Restore software for Backup and Restore System of VMware VMs (Java & NodeJS).
■ Developed rapid application development frameworks and libraries to aid in daily development tasks.

Linux and Windows server administration and DevOps
■ Deployment and maintenance of Linux and Windows-based systems.
■ Deployment of HA platforms built around a variety of technologies such as AWS.
■ Docker Infrastructure Management and Configuration Management.