John Deere

Full stack developer with an UI focus consulting for John Deere ISG.

• Worked on a small team using pair programming, agile, and TDD methodologies.
• Unit testing with mocha, chai, sinon, and proxyquire.
• Developed multiple web UI based applications to help farmers create/edit crop plans (Crop Planner), batch create/edit jobs to contract out (Work manager), and analyze work completed by contractors (Jobs Report) utilizing technologies such as React, Redux, Nodejs, Flux, Babel, Sass, and Webpack.
• Utilized Github to perform code reviews on pull requests.
• Usage of AWS with technologies such as Beanstalk, S3, EC2, Lambda, ...etc.
• Maintained/Modified Java Spring rest services for Grower Operations.
• Usage of Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline.

• John Deere
• Full Stack Software Developer Consultant
• Urbandale, IA
• July 2015 - Sept 2017

Poinks LLC

Poinks is a startup that helps you share you favorite places with your favorite people by providing local businesses tools to engage their customers.

• Collaborated with a team of developers and a UI/UX designer to create a social loyalty rewards platform.
• Managed all technological aspects of development from agile planning, continuous integration and deployment.
• Lead developer for android mobile user app, back end services, databases, and helped with IOS and front end web development.

• Poinks LLC Startup
• Co-Founder
• Des Moines, IA
• May 2014 - July 2017

Poinks started as a senior project college with a few college friends that eventually continued through our early profession careers into a startup. Poinks was focused on building a social loyalty platform that would help local businesses engage their customers. To do this, we created a platform for our business and a their loyal customers. The platform consist of a web and tablet kiosk app for the merchant and a user app for their customers.

The merchant platform utilized a web app for merchants to setup their business and create their rewards for their users. In order to reward their customers, we built a IOS and Android kiosk app allowing customers to redeem their rewards after a purchase.

Poinks IOS and Android user app allowed users find and pocket rewards from local businesses, add friends, share rewards with friends, and work towards redeeming rewards. One of the best features of the app is the ability for the user to share their favorite places with their favorite friends with the additional benefit bringing new business to merchants.

Union Pacific

• Refactored and maintained an application creating delays throughout Union Pacific’s train network using Java, XMF (XML Messaging Framework) services, Wicket, Maven, and Spring.
• Developed distributed XMF Services using JMS, JAXB, Maven, and Spring.
• Provided 24/7 production support of multiple BCAs.
• Led a team to throw a Hackathon (Hacking to Safety) for summer interns.

• Union Pacific
• Sr. Software Developer
• Omaha, NE
• June 2013 - May 2015

Lead a team of union pacific employees to create the first ever Union Pacific Hackathon for interns. The theme of the Hackathon was “Hacking to Safety”, where interns were given 24 hours to come up with solutions on how to make the railroad a safer place. We were responsible for planning, budgeting, working with a designer to create custom logos and t-shirts, and running the Hackathon.

Union Pacific

Front and back-end application development using Java, Javascript, HTML, Spring, SQL,AJAX, Maven, and Wicket.

• Union Pacific
• Intern
• Omaha, NE
• May 2012 - Aug 2012

HGST

• Ran Large scale Performance/Reliability testing on enterprise class SSD/HDD.
• Developed scripts automating bench/code level testing on drives.
• Developed client/server model application to help debug/locate errors on specific HD in test.

• Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
• Co-op Engineer
• Rochester, MN
• January 2011 - July 2011