Nicholas Rase

Experience

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  Penn State Electronic Dance Music Club

  Sept 2011 - Nov 2014

  Special Events Coordinator, Secretary, Vice President, President

  • Appointed and delegate responsibilities to club's officers.• Coordinated and lead discussions at general body and officer meetings.• Collaborated with other student organizations and businesses.• Prepared annual and event-specific budgets ranging.• Fostered relationship between student organization and local nightclubs.• Organized promotional opportunities relative to club's membership .• Managed Facebook groups and pages, consisting of over 2,500 members and followers. Show less

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  Levels Nightclub

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Lead Event Promoter & Event Planning Intern

  • Negotiated concert contracts for popular artists with over 300k - 1m+ followers.• Improve club's visibility via in-person promotion and social media pushes.• Supervised social media outreach on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.• Organized weekly meetings with promoters to highlight effective sales tactics.• Generated over $11,000 in ticket and premium package revenue in addition to contributions from team.

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  Marte Et Arte

  Dec 2014 - Jun 2015

  Mobile Application Developer Intern

  • Communicated complete and accurate status of projects, provided estimates for milestones, and identified options to minimize risk.• Autonomously designed and implemented set of APIs in Ruby on Rails and collaborated daily with development team to ensure alignment with overall project goals and guidelines.• Designed and implemented a heuristic algorithm for scalable match-making by only increasing response time by less than 5%.• Ensured quality of code through Unit, Regression, and Integration testing, resulting in meeting performance requirements on Heroku platform. Show less

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  College of Engineering and Information Sciences

  Jan 2015 - May 2016

  Computer Sciences Learning Assistant

  • Assisted students with assignments during in-class lectures.• Provided assistance to students during midterms and final exams.• Gradedand provided constructive feedback on weekly recitation assignments.• Tutored students struggling with course.

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  Oracle

  Jun 2015 - Jan 2016

  Quality Assurance Engineer Co-Op

  • Automated installation and patching for Oracle cloud products using Chef automation suite.• Implemented automation with Python, Ruby, and Bash.• Tested products to ensure timely and accurate completion of automation on linux virtual machines.• Documented multi-component, enterprise product usage and procedures.• Reported comprehensive project status and potential issues in daily Scrum.

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  Fast Enterprises, LLC

  Aug 2016 - Apr 2022

  • Implemented scalable solutions to enhance system while maintaining existing functionality and usability.• Developed VB.NET code and SQL to streamline Washington Department of Licensing's business processes, data management, and analysis.• Produced unit, regression, and system testing scenarios to ensure changes met business specifications.• Remotely lead meetings and coordinated efforts to communicate, test, and rollout solutions for issues. • Collaborated with team to roll out quarterly service packs.• Implemented new functionality for UI/UX and back-end functions in various environments on schedule.• Developed and refactored VB.net code and SQL to streamline business processes, data management, and analysis.• Ensured completed business requirements were compliant with federal and state regulations.• Coordinated efforts for critical large initiative that impacted I/O with external agencies.

  • Remote Site Support Implementation Consultant

    Nov 2018 - Apr 2022

  • Product Support Implementation Consultant

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2018
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  Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)

  Apr 2022 - now

  System Analyst