Resume

Work Experience

UpstreamDB

Freelance Programmer, August 2016 - Present

• Develop and maintain PHP scripts and Airflow DAGs to automate the ETL of data from government data sets into PostgreSQL.
• Write and optimize query and tables in PostgreSQL.
• Maintain existing and build new data-driven websites
• Maintain existing AWS infrastructure

Interactions Corp

Intent Analyst, August 2014 - November 2016

• Perform real-time data entry by listening to caller voice clips and capturing the appropriate concept or data, and enter the information into proprietary software.
• Participated in pilot projects to determine the viability of new organizational structures and potential issues with various support options.
• Help train new hires by participating in job shadowing.

FICO

Solution Integration Consultant, January 2014 - May 2014

• Create UI specification document.
• Develop web pages using HTML, CSS and JavaScript based on project requirements.
• Create test cases and perform automated testing of UI using Selenium.

Polmedia, LLC

Web Developer, June 2013 - November 2013

• Design, develop and maintain multiple ecommerce websites using a combination of native PHP, Codeigniter, and proprietary e-commerce storefront markup languages.
• Improve SEO aspects of existing websites and plan correct implementation of SEO aspects of new websites.
• Develop and maintain scheduled cron scripts to update inventory, pricing, images and other information across multiple websites.

DrillingEdge.com

Freelance Programmer, Periodic 2012 - 2014

• Developed a series of scripts to automate a multi-step process of exports and imports from various applications and databases.
• Developed COBOL code and scripts to automate data transformation process from a legacy format to MySQL.

Star Nine Ventures

Web Developer, June 2012 - April 2013

• Develop, update and maintain multiple websites and data collection scripts on a LAMP stack using CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine.
• Help perform search engine optimization (SEO) updates to websites.
• Perform quality assurance and testing of back-end data collections scripts.
• Document internal development practices and in-house development frameworks.

Texas State University, Department of Engineering Technology

Java Software Developer (Graduate Assistant), January 2010 - June 2012

• Design, implement, and maintain multiple Java applications based upon project requirements supplied by Dr. Farhad Ameri.
• Design and implement a web based application using Groovy on Grails that integrated existing Java code
• Work with multiple Java APIs including the OWL API, Pellet, the JADE Agent Framework, and iText PDF API.
• Help develop ontologies for use in semantic web and matchmaking research.

Texas State University, Department of Computer Science

Web Developer (Student Worker), June 2006 - May 2008

• Maintain public facing websites for Department of Computer Science and College of Science.
• Maintain existing and implement new functionality in departmental back-end management system.

Education

Texas State University

Master's of Science, Software Engineering, May 2012, GPA 3.54
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, May 2008, GPA 3.80
Organizations & Awards:

• Associated Student Government, House of Graduate Representatives (08/2010-05/2012)
• ASG, Joint Legislative Finance Committee (01/2011 – 05/2012)
• ASG, Governing Documents Committee (08/2011 – 12/2011)
• ASG, Graduate House Secretary (06/2011 – 05/2012)
• Outstanding ASG Member (Awarded 05/2011)
• Texas State International Research Conference Moderator (November 2011)
• Engineering Technology Department Research Award (Spring 2011)
• Nominated for University Student Worker of the Year (Spring 2008)
• Texas State Brightest Star (Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
• Deans List (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
• Computer Science Dept. Outstanding Service Award (Spring 2007 & 2008)
• Computer Science Dept. Research Excellence Award (Spring 2008)
• Computer Science Dept. Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award (Spring 2008)
• Computer Science Dept. Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (Spring 2008)

Skills & Tools Used