Resume

My professional career has been interesting, to say the least. In the span of a few years, I have played a role in 20+ projects from inception to production deployments. I quickly went from an intern to engineering manager. Starting at a small company, you have the opportunity to wear many hats and acquire as much responsibility as you can handle.

Technical Skills

Hot take: Skills don't matter that much. Skills are like tools, just because you know how to use a hammer, does not mean you know how to build a house. If you know how to build a house, the tool's individual importance becomes secondary to the task at hand. Every tool has a specific purpose, and the real skill is knowing when and where to use that tool, and when you need to learn another one.

Work Experience

High level breakdown of experience:

Now, let's get a bit more specific.

• Work with the production team to schedule resources across the company to not only appropriately staff client projects but ensure that the company was profitable.
• Directly manage employees. Includes performance reviews, mentorship, interviews, and all other HR related tasks.
• Optimize engineering processes and introduce new workflows and technologies that improve observability, developer efficient, cross team communication, etc.
• Continue leading individual project teams and being a representative to clients.
• Train and mentor other engineers to lead projects and discoveries for new clients

• Interface with clients directly to identify and understand project goals, and relay information to the developer team
• Architect applications (tech stack, data models, business logic) based on product requirements
• Develop the product with the team of designers and other developers with Agile development practices

• Develop Angular web application with a ASP.NET server. Deployed to AWS.
• Created a native Android application and deployed to Google Play Store.
  • Created and deployed a sibling application for FireTV for Amazon Fire devices.

Education

Let's be honest, this doesn't actually matter anymore since I am already in the industry. I just needed a degree to get my first job. Higher education is not the pinnacle of achievement, not for a software engineer.

While in high school, I opted into a program called "Running Start" that ideally lets you earn an Associates before graduating high school. I choose a web development path that I wasn't able to complete before graduating and moving to Oregon.