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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Engineering Manager: February 2021 - Present

Sr. QA Automation Engineer - SDET - Contract: August 2020 - February 2021

  • Mentor, Guide, and Support Direct reports in a first line HR manager capacity
  • Establish and maintain portfolio and ICS technical coding and usage standards including code reviews
  • Support teams with direct hands-on development with coding needs as a Sr. Software Engineer
  • Shared experience with team members in Agile Principles as related to Azure DevOps
  • Organized and Applied Testing Discipline and Quality Assurance Guidelines
  • Developed Test Plans for Manual and Automated Testing
  • Implemented Test Automation using Selenium and Direct API
  • Developed an Extensible Test Automation Framework based on current Software Engineering Principles
  • Technologies used

    • Azure
    • Azure DevOps / VSTS / TFS
    • Azure Key Vault
    • Blazor C# .NET (Light Exposure)
    • C# .Net Framework and .Net Core
    • Docker (Light Exposure)
    • GIT
    • MS-SQL
    • React (Light Exposure)
    • Selenium WebDriver
    • Terraform (Light Exposure)
    • Visual Studio
    • YAML - Azure DevOps Pipelines

Academy Mortgage Corporation

Sr. Software Engineer: February 2017 - September 2018

IT-Manager: September 2018 - August 2020

  • Managing DevOps Team September 2018 - August 2020
  • Managing Quality Assurance Team April 2019 - August 2020
  • Managed the Service Now development team from September 2018 - April 2019
  • Sr. Software Engineer on the Encompass Development Team from February 2017 - September 2018
  • Management of Team Budgets and aided in the Procurement of both small and large scale Enterprise Software solutions
  • Participates in IT Leadership and Planning Discussions with CIO and Leadership Team on weekly tactical meeting
  • Participates as a member of the Architectural Review Board
  • Conducts Research and Architectural review of potential application solutions and develops Proof of Concept examples - AzureServices
  • Provided direction and leadership creating technological direction in automation and orchestration of services in QA and DevOps
  • Customization and Plugin Development for Ellie Mae's Encompass Application
  • Data Sync Services using Encompass SDK that sync's data bidirectionally between Encompass and a Data Warehouse - Encompass
  • Developed implementation that creates Loans in Encompass using Ellie Mae's Dev Connect RESTful API
  • Assisted in the deployment, configuration, and best practices of Azure DevOps (VSTS / TFS)
  • Member of the Technology Architecture Review Board
  • Team Development Lead and Scrum Master
  • Assisted in the mentoring of agile practices among team members
  • Technologies used

    • Adaptive Insights
    • ASP.NET
    • Azure
    • Azure DevOps / VSTS / TFS
    • Azure Function Applications
    • Azure Logic Applications
    • Azure Message Bus
    • C# .Net Framework and .Net Core
    • Docker / Kubernetes (Light Exposure)
    • Ellie Mae - Encompass
    • GIT
    • MS-SQL
    • MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform (Light Exposure)
    • MVC
    • Salt Stack (Light Exposure)
    • Service Now (Light Exposure)
    • Visual Studio
    • Web Services SOAP & REST
    • Workplace
    • WPF

A-Game Empowerment

Business Owner / Entrepreneur / Sr. Software Engineer: August 2016 - Current

  • Custom Web and WebAPI Application Development
  • Responsive Mobile Web Design
  • Developing online eTraining Courses
  • Developed and customized WordPress Site for eCommerce and hosting eTraining Courses
  • Developed MLMLinkup.com and hosted it on Azure
  • Implemented custom eCommerce integration with PayPal merchant services
  • Technologies used

    • ASP.NET
    • Azure
    • Azure DevOps / VSTS / TFS
    • Azure Function Applications
    • Azure Logic Applications
    • Azure Message Bus
    • C# .Net Framework and .Net Core
    • Docker / Kubernetes (Light Exposure)
    • HostGator and cPanel
    • Internet Information Service - IIS
    • GIT
    • MS-SQL
    • MVC
    • Visual Studio
    • Web Services SOAP & REST
    • WordPress

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Translation Services

Sr. QA Automation Engineer - SDET - Contract: November 2014 - November 2016

  • LDS-TS: Organized and Applied Testing Discipline and Quality Assurance Guidelines
  • LDS-TS: Developed Test Plans for Manual and Automated Testing
  • LDS-TS: Implemented Test Automation using Selenium and Direct API
  • LDS-TS: Release Management and Deployment of Updates and Patches
  • LDS-TS: Created Various Reports for the Business
  • Leadership: Mentorship of Intern and Lead in QA on team
  • Technologies used

    • C#
    • Java
    • JIRA
    • GIT
    • MS-SQL
    • Team Foundation Server - TFS
    • Translation Tools
    • Visual Studio
    • Web Services SOAP & REST
    • XML

SwipeClock

Sr. Software Engineer: March 2013 - October 2014

  • Development Lead for team
  • Team Foundation Server Administrator
  • Timeworks: Release Management and Lane Promotion. Multiple Release Cycles for Feature Sets
  • Timeworks: Migration of .NET Web Site Project to support N-Tier Architecture
  • Timeworks: Implemented changes in project to support SOA Library and WebService
  • Timeworks: Database Architecture and Schema Deployment
  • Technologies used

    • ASP.NET
    • C#
    • IIS
    • MS-SQL / T-SQL
    • Team Foundation Server - TFS
    • Visual Studio
    • Web Services SOAP & REST
    • XML

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Translation Services

Sr. QA Automation Engineer - SDET - Contract: March 2011 - March 2013

  • LDS-TS: Completed Product Release Cycle
  • LDS-TS: Manual and Automated Testing and Development of Test Cases
  • LDS-TS: Application and Database Performance Analysis and Developed SQL data management scripts
  • LDS-TS: Updated SQL Scripts for data migration from Oracle / Clarity to SQL
  • LDS-TS: SQL Database Schema and Data validation
  • Technologies used

    • C#
    • IIS
    • MS-SQL T-SQL
    • Silverlight
    • TFS
    • Visual Studio
    • Web Services SOAP & REST
    • XML

Microsoft Contracts (Multiple)

QA Automation Engineer - SDET: January 2008 - September 2010

  • CRM: Ownership over test suite validating backward compatibility through WCF interface
  • CRM: Analyzing Stack Traces to determine software breaks, filing and verifying software bugs / fixes
  • Zune: Developed Web based Reporting website
  • Zune: Developed SQL Database, stored procedures, and triggers to interface with the website
  • Zune: Developed SSIS packages in MS-SQL to import data into a data-mart database
  • Zune: Developed system to migrate data from Data-mart into Analysis Services
  • Zune: Participated in scrum team planning, scoping, and prioritization
  • Technologies used

    • C#
    • MS-SQL / T-SQL
    • Product Studio
    • Source Depot
    • Visual Studio

Carey And Associates

Member Owner / Entrepreneur / Software Architect: April 2007 - May 2020

  • Professional Consulting providing software architecture and solutions for business logic
  • Developed SOAP / REST Service to replicate data from a server to a Mobile Client
  • Developed media content and delivery system and web service utilizing C# ASP.NET (2 Years)
  • Development of SQL Databases, creating tables, stored procedures, indexes, and custom applications
  • Developed Client in Java that communicated with a SOAP Service
  • Technologies used

    • AJAX
    • ASP.NET
    • BugTracker.NET
    • C#
    • CSS
    • HTML
    • IIS
    • Java
    • JavaScript
    • MS-SQL / T-SQL
    • SVN
    • Visual Studio
    • XML

Kumusoft

Member Owner / Entrepreneur / Software Engineer: January 2002 - September 2005

  • Developed web application for presentation of web based genealogical data
  • Implemented security and access control layer for user interaction with web based software
  • Technologies used

    • ASP.NET
    • C/C++
    • C#
    • IIS
    • MS-SQL / T-SQL
    • Visual Studio
    • VSS