Aaron Williams

Experience

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  INTERIOR REGION EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC

  May 2017 - Aug 2021

  Contract Cleaner

  Key-holder contract cleaning position where I maintained cleanliness of the IREMSC building by coming in weekly and performing standard cleaning duties.

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  Riverboat Discovery

  May 2018 - Sept 2019

  Grounds Crew + Deckhand

  Worked full-time as Grounds Crew and twice-weekly as Deckhand. Ground's Crew Duties• Cleaned the Discovery III interior twice daily with 0-2 other employees.• helped maintain the Riverboat Discovery property and it's surrounding area.• Odd jobs like filling potholes, garbage cleanup, painting paddles, etc.Deckhand Duties:• Helped dock and undock the Discovery III riverboat.• Took customers orders and handed them food, as well as poured sodas and grabbed bottled beverages.• Once per trip all 300-800 people would line up on 2 of the 3 decks to buy food and drinks and we served them all quickly so we could continue the tours.Seasons worked:• May 2018 - September 2018.• May 2019 - September 2019. Show less

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  Arctic Sun Virtual Reality

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Virtual Reality Bay Attendant

  Key-holder customer service position centered around VR, racing sims, and PC gaming.• Scheduled appointments and checked in guests.• Helped guests sign up for ASVR's email list.• Explained to new guests how the VR arcade worked, as well as a full briefing on controls and rules for the arcade.• Ran an educational virtual reality summer camp with 8 campers, aged 8-17, meeting daily for 1 week per camp.• Created and posted social media updates and advertisements.• Researched new arcade titles, tested them, and suggested them to management.• Learned the ins and outs, common issues, and how to fix them of all popular titles at the arcade.• Performed opening and closing procedures, complete with cleaning and toggling the security system. Show less

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  Maverick Esports

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2023

  Esports Assistant Coach

  Assistant management operations include:• Managing a tentative practice schedule that worked for 4-6 people per team.• Posting score updates on Twitter after matches.• Organizing scrimmages with other schools Esports teams.• Utilizing Microsoft Excel to log attendance and scrimmages.• Assistance in mediating team disagreements.• Using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects to create Stream Overlays and Alerts for team player's Twitch Streams and Practice VOD.• Work with the broadcasting team to control in-game camera angles (Codcaster) to spectate matches for spectators.• Managing 16 computers including updating and optimizing. In-person and remote using TeamViewer.• Manually optimizing Open Broadcast Software settings and scene collections as well as NVidia Control Panel Settings to maintain peak performance in both competing and streaming to an audience. Show less

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  Minnesota State University, Mankato

  Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

  Teaching Assistant

  Temporarily filled in as a Teaching Assistant for a Data Structures and OOP course.• Helped teach OOP principles as well as the C# language.• Hosted weekly check-ins for Unity game projects.• Acted as an aid to students for all things Unity Game Engine.

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  Thomson Reuters

  Sept 2023 - now

  Contract Software Engineer

  I work on a team that develops new features for, and maintains, multiple middle-tier codebases that take requests from our apps (Like Clear and Westlaw), then grab necessary data from our internal databases, as well as external vendors, then process that data and convert it into something useful that's sent back to the apps.Since 09/26/2023, I have:• Completed 105 tickets (about 50/50 bugs and stories).• Made 268 GitHub contributions.• Completed 2 production hot fixes.Contracted by Maverick Software. Show less

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  Maverick Software Consulting

  Sept 2023 - now

  Software Engineer Intern

  See Thomson Reuters experience section.