Rebecca Schmidt

Experience

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  Panera Bread

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2013

  Associate Trainer

  Exceeded sales targets, provided excellent customer service, and trained new associates.

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  Penn State IFC PanHellenic Dance Marathon

  Sept 2012 - May 2015

  Finance Gift Entry Captain

  Selected to lead and supervise a committee of 30 Finance volunteers to receive donations, batch checks, and perform duties that insure the integrity of the organization. Processed monetary donations for Penn State’s Dance Marathon, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world, which raised $13,343,517.33 in 2014 for the Four Diamonds Fund.

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  Stryker Sage

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Quality Assurance Intern

  Worked with the Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs teams to update software systems, increase functionality of online databases, and deal with compliance issues regarding current FDA regulations.

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  Penn State University

  Dec 2013 - May 2015

  Demonstrated a strong work ethic and utilized interpersonal skills to serve patrons, maintain library standards and distinction in the Penn State community, and perform a wide range of duties related to library databases. Participated in biweekly study labs, grading, and coordinated individual tutoring sessions upon request.

  • Library Associate

    Jan 2012 - May 2015

  • Teaching Assistant for Economics 106

    Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
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  Capital One

  Jun 2015 - Feb 2021

  · Delivered the features for our Bass Pro/Cabela’s partner for Capital One’s core credit card originations application using a React and the Flux design pattern coupled with a microservices architecture· Lead annual peak season performance testing and disaster recovery exercise for a Customer Data Prefill API for our Sony partner by failing the API over to the West region, identifying dependencies on lower resiliency tiers, creating a contingency plan for failback, and testing for failures in the autoscaling of our EC2 instances· Designed and maintained alerting and monitoring for all partnerships products on our core originations application· Migrated a legacy mainframe application to the AWS Cloud, which involved debugging as a result of Java versioning changes, implementing unit tests to onboard the application to a DevOps pipeline, and replacing existing brittle tests Show less

  • Senior Associate Software Engineer

    Jul 2019 - Feb 2021

  • Associate Software Engineer

    Jun 2017 - Feb 2021

  • Sr. Associate - Management Rotational Program

    Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
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  Slack

  Feb 2021 - now

  I lead a team of seven technical architects, overseeing projects across the public sector, financial services, and consumer/business services industries. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, scoping technical consulting engagements such as custom Slack applications, and fostering team growth. Contributions include establishing a long-term technical consolidation strategy for Slack instances in collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders, providing expertise in both ETL scripts and M&A activities as a whole, as well as supporting new JavaScript tooling to streamline data movement processes, reduce risk and customer downtime, and improve end-to-end efficiencies. Show less

  • Manager, Technical Consulting

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Technical Architect

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Technical Architect

    Feb 2021 - Feb 2022